Rule #17: After finals, take a long break to de-stress and refresh yourself. Also, when you start next semester, make sure to leave all the negative/bad stuff that happened this semester and start with...

Recap: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly This is my final week studying at the University of New Haven’s Prato, Italy campus, and I have to say that this experience was definitely an eye-opening one in...

Piano has to be my favorite musical instrument. I think it is the one instrument besides the voice that has a beautiful melodic quality to it, almost like a lullaby. I had never seen a solo piano performance...

Positives: -Happy 375th Birthday New Haven! -Summer 2013 is so close, I can feel it!   Negatives: -With this weather, I no longer have any motivation to get work done. At all. -One...

Rule #16: “It’s never as bad as it seems. It will look better in the morning.” – Colin Powell. Overreacting is a natural human reaction to any problem, but sometimes it’s just best to step...

Friday, April 26th Dave and Busters Trip- Bus is leaving at 3:30pm from Maxcy Weekly Film: The Hobbit at 9pm in Bartels Dining Room   Saturday, April 27th Plant a Tree Project cosponsored...

Stuck in the Past One thing I have realized since I arrived in Italy in January is that they seem to have not truly modernized since the 1980s to early 1990s. This can be said in terms of everything...

 Positives: -We have event emails once again! A feature very much missed by this copy editor. -Registration seems to be going pretty well for everyone so far.   Negatives: -My heart...

Rule #15: Learn not to over schedule. We tend to want to do many things at once. But in my opinion, it would be better to do fewer things and do them well than to over load yourself and be at risk of...

I Change My Favorite Artist Like I Change My Clothes It seems as though in Italy, when a song is popular, it is the only song you hear everywhere you go. Sometimes it is hard to know whether it has...

Positives: -Great food, displays and performances…loved the international festival! -The end of the semester is in sight, you just have to keep on keeping on.   Negatives: -Everyone’s...

By Andrew Gitin SCOPE had a lot of fun activities that took place during the past week. Comedy Week continued for SCOPE as we brought in Digital Caricaturist Angie Jordan into the Programming Space...

Artist Talk with Michaela Lombardi I promised in my last article that this interview was to come. This is the first time I have done an entire article focusing on my interview with an artist, but I...

Positives: -Congratulations to the Theater Department and the cast of Into the Woods for a great production! -That awesome moment when you manage to ace a test you didn’t study for.   Negatives: -Is...

Rule #13: Don’t let work pile up! Take care of it earlier, rather than later. We have all procrastinated on work, but if you are like me you probably always regret it afterwards. In the long run,...