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Show Editorial 3 THE SIGNPOST MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2012 The Signpost Viewpoint Tips for finishing the semester strong We only have two weeks of school left. It's going to fly by like a bat out of . . . heck Because our time is limited, The Signpost would like to offer you some "finish the semester strong" pointers. Pointer No. 1 - Stop procrastinating Because time is limited, stop putting off all the big projects and little assignments that need to get done. If you have a big project due at the end of next week or during finals week, start working on it now Work on it in chunks. Make time to work on a piece of the assignment every night. Pace yourself, and by the time it's due you will be done and ready to go. By doing so, the workload the last week will be much less. This can apply to the 20-page paper or the big term video project. Whatever the case is, DON'T PROCRASTINATE. Pointer No. 2 - Prioritize We all would rather be outside enjoying the spring weather, hanging with friends, seeing a movie, watching baseball, reading a book for fun, or working than stressing about finals and homework. We believe that it's possible to get everything done and not completely lose your mind in the process. Schoolwork needs to come first. If you put your schoolwork first every day, even if it's only for an hour, then do something else for a while, that's OK. But make sure you do something school-related for a little each day. Make schoolwork come first and plan accordingly. You don't have to forgo all those much more enjoyable things than schoolwork, but manage your time well so that everything will fit in and you won't don't get so caught up in fun you attitude. It might be hard bebe too stressed. forget about those responsibilities. cause everything you have going Pointer No. 3 - Treat yourself It's been known to happen and can is overwhelming. Just know there Take the time to treat yourself. be detrimental. might be someone out there who Students work hard to finish out Pointer No. 4 - Communicate has it worse than you do and just school, so reward yourself at least with your teacher keep on trucking. The end is near twice a week with your favorite You might have put off a few as- and you can make it. treat (twice is the minimum it's al- signments earlier in the semester. The staff would like to wish lowed; it's understandable if you You might be looking for extra- you luck for the next two weeks. need it more than twice). Eat an credit opportunities. You might not It is going to be a bumpy ride ice cream. Eat popcorn. Load up have a clue as to what the teacher with lots of highs and lows. Just on candy and junk food. Drink a is talking about. Now is the time to remember, you are definitely Coke or Mountain Dew or Red Bull make an appointment with your not alone in all of this. There are or Gatorade. Whatever suites your teacher, sit down and have a one- about 25,000 other students at fancy. It's not the healthiest thing on-one with them. Ask about any- WSU going through the exact in the world, but it will make you thing you need help with. same thing. happy and help you get through Teachers want you to succeed, Be positive, manage your time the workload you have. so if you are struggling with any- wisely, don't forget to have some Also, plan time for fun. Make thing at all that has to do with their fun, finish strong and keep movsure you have that moment in the class or you know they can help you ing forward. The end is in sight. day where it's fun for you. It's a good on, don't be afraid to ask for help. Comment on this column al outlet to forget about the responPointer No. 5 - Be positive wsusignpost.corr sibilities and have fun. Warning: Look at each day with a bright Simonson Says:The best snacks you'll never have Stephanie Simonson • The Signpost columnist You think companies that make delicious products ever call a meeting and say, "OK, gang, business is good, but there's one of our products that is just far too delicious and people like way too much. We should probably pull it off the shelves. We wouldn't want people to, you know, get addicted to it or get fat or anything." You might think I'm leading up to an analogy for a bigger issue here, but I assure you I'm not. Why can I never find the best varieties of snacks I like anywhere anymore? Did everybody just get tipped off that I liked them and do it just to screw with me? Don't even try to tell me that these confections I can no longer find just weren't doing very well, because I know I am not the only person in the world with functioning taste buds. I write this list of the top 10 most delicious things that seem to have been banned — most of them from still-thriving brands that have no discernible reason to be making cuts — in the hopes that someone will respond, "Huh? I still see those all the time. Just go to this little independent shelf room to the granola bar that store or Vernal. You can also get made me like granola bars? Sure, them online." they were closer to candy bars, 10. Purple Sunny Delight. with the white chocolate chips, Well, it was more indigo than little chunks of chocolate cookie, purple, but does anyone remem- and the oats glued together with ber this? I don't even remember honey, but Chewy never claimed what flavor it was; I just remem- to be a health food. Surely they ber it looked and tasted like haven't discontinued their best something poetic, like the fruit and undoubtedly most popuof the night. Why on earth is this lar flavor, so where on earth do sweet and beautiful beverage I find them if not, I don't know, gone when pink Sunny D is still the Chewy granola bar shelf at going strong and lesser flavors Walmart? are still being churned out? What 7. Loganberry punch. I tried logical reason for this could there this only once, at a Chinese bufpossibly be? Methinks someone fet, years ago. It was this glossy needs to be demoted or fired. purplish mauve color that I want 9. Those tubes of ice-cream- to buy 10 outfits in and smelled flavored stuff. I apologize for like wildflowers. I still hear about not being more specific here, loganberries once in a while, so I but I only got one of these once. will make this myself if I have to. On a family trip when I was 6. Fruit-flavored Brummel about 9, we stopped at a conve- & Brown. I'd take Brummel & nience store selling these tubes Brown, the creamy fake butter of mousse-like substance fla- made with yogurt, over real butvored like chocolate or vanilla ice ter in a second. But I never see cream. For some reason, I chose their strawberry and blueberry the vanilla, oblivious to the fact spreads anymore. That stuff that I would never have a chance could turn Wonder Bread into to try the chocolate. My cousin manna. asked why I'd gotten the vanilla; 5. White-iced chocolate Zingshe said the chocolate one was ers. OK, Zingers clearly are not delicious. In the next life I will hurting for business, so even taste you, chocolate tube. if this was their worst-selling 8. Quaker's Chewy cookies-n- flavor, and I don't see how it cream granola bars. There's cer- could've been, they should've tainly never a shortage of their been able to keep it. I don't know most boring flavors, like oatmeal what it was about the combo of raisin. Why not give some of that chocolate cake and white icing, Calamities of Nature by Tony Piro SOMEDAY r WANT A FERRARI "TESTA ROSS A. 2. Dreyer's Slow-Churned berry granola yogurt. Stop forcing your various chocolates and peaches on us, Dreyer's SlowChurned; we can find those anywhere. What you were best at was this miraculous flavor that did absolutely everything right. It had the crunch, the delicate sweetness, the creamy texture - it had it all. What kind of hacks do you have deciding which flavors to scrap and which to keep? 1. Village Inn's white chocolate cherry pie. I've saved this one for now, because it's a very sensitive subject with me. I'm starting to realize I'm not that big of a pie person, because I eat other kinds of pie at Village Inn and feel nothing. When they discontinued this miracle of satiny mousse filling, chocolate crust and cherry topping, they showed just how little they know about the dessert they claim to do better than anyone. If I am ever a billionaire, my first selfish act will be to payVillage Inn as much as they want to bring this thing back, or completely buy them out if they refuse. I will call the new Village Inn "We Don't Kill Off Your Favorite Pie and Blackberry Hot Chocolate (I think they stopped doing this too, right?) For No Intelligent Reason." Comment on this column at wsusignpost.com Best In Show Comic I'M GOING- 1-0 DO SOME MATH 15 but it is something chocolateon-chocolate Zingers somehow just can't recapture. Maybe it's just high-school vending machines that carry this mother of all snack cakes? 4. Smurf ice cream. When I was little, I'd get this bright blue ice cream nearly every time we went to Harmon's. And it was really blue, not "blue" like blueberry cheesecake ice cream. The other increasingly obscure flavors I would get, like Play-Doh, Superman and licorice, at least can still be found at some Farr's locations. I'd like to Smurf somebody in the Smurfing Smurf for this travesty. 3. Carl's Jr. Oreo cheesecake. I see how it is, Carl's Jr. You get us hooked on a packaged cheesecake based around a mediocre dime-store cookie that, beyond all reason, put the Cheesecake Factory's finest to shame, then you pull it from the shelves because you felt it was, I don't know, too fattening or something? Have you seen the calorie count on your burgers lately? Don't tell me your deal with Oreo expired or whatever, because you still put them in your shakes. For my years of loyal business despite my knowledge of your vast contribution to the country's obesity problem, I demand you give this back. I suggest you take this very, very seriously, Carl. HOW WOULD THAT MAKE YOU by Phil Juliano WOW. I THOUGHT SHE WOULD LIKE THAT I NOTICED HER NEW NAIR CUT! RACK DID YOU DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT TO YOUR HAIR? ENOUGH MONEY? O E 6 '6; SHE GOT I-IER HAIR CUT LAST WEEK. -• Editor in Chief Managing Editor News Editor Sports Editor Photo Editor Business Editor Spencer Garn Stephanie Simonson Eric Jensen Nathan Davis Bryan Butterfield Jessica Klemm 626-7121 626-7614 626-7655 626-7983 626-8071 626-7621 The Signpost is a stude nt publication, written, edited and drafted by Weber State University students. Student fees fund the printing of this publication. Options or positions voiced are not necessarily endorsed by the university. Features Editor A&E Editor Copy Editor Adviser Ads Manager Office Manager Jerrica Archibald Kory Wood Alexandria Waltz Shane Farver Shelley Hart Georgia Edwards 626-7624 626-7105 626-7659 626-7526 626-6359 626-7974 The Signpost reserves the right to edit for reasons of space and libel and also reserves the right to refuse to print any letter. Letters should not exceed 350 words. 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