Take brief breaks when studying. Don’t sit at your desk for four hours straight staring at the same stuff. Your brain needs a break. Try a five minute break for every half hour of study.

Seek solitude when necessary. Your friends should understand if you need some alone time to finish up studying, after all they have finals too.

Two years ago, Congress passed a law regarding nutrition within school systems. Schools discouraged fried foods and soda in the cafeteria and low-fat and low-calorie snacks took the place of vending machine treats. These changes are a good way of influencing the students’ eating habits while at school, and perhaps warming them up to the idea of nutritious food.

What is Twitter you ask? It is the latest free social networking craze that has hit the web. If you have the urge to let your friends and strangers know what you are doing every minute of the hour, then Twitter is for you.

You are allowed to update or “Tweet” as much as you like from you computer.

Everyone warned me how fast it would all fly by, but I didn’t believe them. Now, one month shy of graduation, I find myself wondering…where did the time go? I remember embarking upon my college experience back in the fall of 2005, and it seemed like 2009 was unreachable, like chasing after the horizon.

‘Hey there Salve,’ this one’s for you. Plain White T’s, known for their smash single, “Hey There Delilah,” will perform at Salve on April 18, 2009.

Plain White T’s, with openers Single File and Danger Radio, will bring the “Three Part Harmony: A Show in Three Acts” headlining tour to Salve Regina University’s Rodgers Recreational Center in Newport, R.