Cheryl Lemenager spent her winter break re-reading every childhood book that was still in her Lynn, Mass., home. She did it because it made her happy. Lemenager said it has taken her 21 years to get here, but she’s happy. One might wonder how being a triple major and being happy can occur simultaneously.

All of us have dealt with the stress and anxiety that accompanies writing a 20-page paper the night before it is due. Despite all the stress and pressure to complete our work, especially as the semester winds down, we feel just as much stress to cease the grumbling in our stomachs at all times

of the day and night.

Today, collegiate sports are highly competitive, from Division 1 to Division 3. For Nicole Fecteau, a junior on Salve Regina University’s women’s lacrosse team, this means a nearly year round conditioning and training program. After a summer of running distance and sprints on her own, Fecteau looks forward to training with her team.

Brian Kenny recently received a shipment of digital to analog television converter boxes in his Radio Shack store, but since the display went up in front of the register, the devices have yet to sell.

“As much as we’d like to have [the converters] here and get them out, it’s going to be a last minute thing,” said Kenny, manager of the location in the Bellevue Plaza Shopping Center in Newport, R.

By now we have heard the number of days until graduation, how many more days left to procrastinate on the last of our homework assignments. We have heard the number of days we have left to go on adventures with our best friends who live down the street. What will we fill our numbered days with? How will we spend our minutes?

I can admit I have no reason left in me to look at my work; I would much rather spend an afternoon on the beach swinging towards the vibrant sunsets with my best friend.