Social Media Manager: Molly Keady

 

KE: Why don’t you have your license?

MK: I have my permit right now and I’m just waiting to take my test. I’m super busy, it’s hard for me to schedule everything… I live in Minneapolis so I take the bus everywhere.

KE: Who is your go-to ride?

MK: Probably one of my friends, Amira Carter, who’s also a senior. She used to live right next to me and we do a lot of the same activities, too.  So, she’s able to get me back and forth to places.

KE: What are the pros of not having your license?

MK: People don’t ask you for rides. I don’t have to spend money on gas, which is super nice.

KE: How do you spend the extra money you have from not having to pay for gas?

MK: Although I don’t have to pay for gas, I have to pay for my bus fare. So, there’s that and food, Chipotle, that’s always good.

KE: How extensive is your driving knowledge?

MK: I would say fairly well. I got my permit about a year ago so, I’ve probably forgotten a lot of things, but I think it’s still pretty good.

 

Staff Writer: Sarah Person

 

KE: Why did you wait so long to get your license?

SP: Because I have to pay for everything myself. So, it wasn’t that I was waiting because I didn’t want to get my license. It was that you take in the cost of driver’s ed and if you want your license you have to be an insured driver and that right there, that can even go up to five-hundred dollars or a grand. So, I was just doing it because it was the most cost effective for me to work and then get it done.

KE: Who was your go-to ride?

SP: Peyton James, Lillian Smith, and Brooke Ferrer.

KE: What is your favorite part about having your license?

SP: I feel so cool driving myself to school. You have no idea. It’s just so nice not to have to ask people for a ride because I felt like such a bother.

KE: What do you wish you could spend your gas money on?

SP: College application fees.

KE: Do you feel like you are a good driver? 

SP: I mean I’m working on it. We’re still in the right lane most of the time and a little bit under the speed limit, but we’re getting there.

 

 

Magazine Editor: Carolina Jimenez

 

KE: Why don’t you have your license?

CJ: I had my driver’s license test scheduled for Halloween this year and then I thought that I lost my keys. So, it was the weekend before the test and my mom said I’d probably have to cancel it because we don’t have an extra key. Then [the following] Thursday, I looked in the bottom of my locker and my keys were in there, and I was really upset because it was all for nothing.

KE: Who is your go-to ride?

CJ: My mother…

KE: What are the pros of not having your license?

CJ: You don’t have to pay for gas, and that’s kind of it.

KE: How do you spend the extra money you have from not having to pay for gas?

CJ: I’m savin’ it.

KE: How extensive is your driving knowledge?

CJ: I think I’d be a good driver. I have definitely fulfilled the fifty-hour requirement, and I’m a great driver.

 

Staff Writer: Anna Latourelle

 

KE: Why don’t you have your license

AL: Because there’s not a point to me having my license. When my dad works at the school, he takes me to school and he takes me home. I wouldn’t have a car, and my parents are totally fine taking me where I have to go, so it doesn’t really matter.

KE: Who is your go-to ride?

AL: My mommy and daddy. Or McKenzie Dunleavy. She takes me a lot of places.

KE: What are the pros of not having your  license?

AL: I don’t have to put in all that work and all that time for driver’s ed, behind the wheels, or any of that because I turn eighteen in a little bit. So, then I just can take a permit test, have my permit test for however many months it has to be and then I can just take the test. So, I don’t actually have to put in that driver’s ed effort.

KE: How do you spend the extra money you have from not having to pay for gas?

AL: Food. All food. I eat constantly.

KE: How extensive is your driving knowledge?

AL: I know most of the laws of the road just from watching my parents drive. I am kind of a backseat driver sometimes depending on who I’m riding with.

KE Photos  by Morgan Williams