Finals week/Advice for studying

As all of you know, finals week is coming up awfully fast.  Because of this, there are not too many more activities for the remainder of the semester.  This is can be considered both a good and bad thing.  It is a good thing because it means the semester is coming to an end, and winter break is just around the corner.  It is a bad thing because before the winter break, unfortunately there still are finals.  Even though finals are every college students worst nightmare, I have some tips that will help students to do better on their exams with less effort.

First, it’s very helpful to study a little bit frequently, as opposed to waiting until the night before and cramming.  It’s a lot easier to retain information when you are relaxed, as opposed to being in a hurry, tired, or angry.  If you study little amounts at a time frequently, it helps to prevent you from becoming tired or angry while studying.

Second, create a study routine.  It’s proven that if you are used to a certain routine of studying, you will do better than if you study at random times.  It’s also very helpful to review the information the day of the test, just to keep it fresh in your mind.

Third, and most important, when you study, you will get frustrated, there’s no avoiding it.  You need to do whatever you can to prepare yourself for it.  You need to realize that the frustration is going to come, and you need to realize that you need to ignore it in order to study better.

Hopefully, this will help you to do better on your finals.  Best of luck to all of you.

Kev

SGA Information – Q&A

If any of you readers are interested in information about SGA, you have come to the right place.  I talked to Junior Class Senator, Hilary Scacchetti, to gain information about the topic.

Q:  How long have you been a member of SGA?

A:  About three months, I started sometime during mid-to-late September.

Q:  Overall, how do you like it?

A:  I absolutely love it.  All of the meetings are so much fun, and so funny.  It’s cool because although we have fun, we still get work done.

Q:  Is there anything you don’t like?

A:  Honestly, no.  It’s a great way to stay involved with the school and still have fun at the same time.

Q:  How did you gain a position in SGA?

A:  Usually you run for a position that you’d like in a school-wide election, but there are other options, too.  You can sometimes write a resume, and hand it in to Phil Castro.

Q:  What are the positions held?

A:  All the positions that are available in any normal government, President, Vice President, Senators, Treasury, Special Event’s coordinator’s, pretty much what you would expect.

Q:  How many members are there in SGA?

A:  I’m not too sure, it differs from grade to grade, maybe 100?

Q:  Is it completely student run?

A:  Well, we do have advisors, but they pretty much let us run the show.  They’ll give us advice and try to help as good advisors would, but the students do mostly everything in the longrun.  We like it better that way too, it gives us more responsibility, more reward type of a thing.

Q:  Lastly, do you recommend it to people who are interested in joining?

A:  Yes, definately.  Like I said before, it’s a great way to stay involved with the school, and have fun while doing it.  I highly recommend it to anyone who thinks they might be interested, it’s worth a shot.

Weekends Around Rowan

This slide show shows a few places where students can go to enjoy themselves when bored. The pictures were taken by me on and around campus. All of the pictures are also within walking distance of campus as well, so it should help for students without a car to still be able to have fun, hang out, and eat some food.  Enjoy.