Archive for December, 2007
Delving away from the culture of procrastination, there has been a fair amount of psychological research conducted in the field.
According to Dr. Timothy Pychyl of Ottawa’s Carleton University, procrastination is closely related to “avoidant coping styles.
I hate to break it to you, eager first-years in the throng of your first passionate relationship or anyone else, for that matter: if you or your significant other are heading home for the break, the odds are stacked against you.
Temptations come from every direction: in your hometown, seeing people you know you won’t be seeing again for months.
“I always feel close to her when I write,” Kathleen Ellis, a professor of English at the University of Maine, commented on Emily Dickinson last Monday. She, along with two other Maine poets, Candice Stover and Jackie Michaud, paid homage to the 177-year-old bard as they promoted their newest publications, “Vanishing Act,” “Poets from the Pond” and “The Waking Hours,” respectively.
When most University of Maine students think of final exams, images of all-nighters and last-minute cramming spring to the forefront. While this seems to be the norm among the UMaine community, there is a small subset of individuals that forego the procrastination techniques most students subscribe to.
Many students have noticed that the past two weeks have been relatively quiet on the athletic courts and fields of the University of Maine. With the semester winding down, many teams’ seasons have slowed down accordingly, but members of UMaine Greek Life know that the competition of intramurals hardly ever takes a break.
This past Sunday, I was fortunate to take a little trip down to Foxboro, Mass., to witness the New England Patriots romp over the Pittsburg Steelers, running their perfect 12-0 record to a just-as-perfect 13-0.
The odyssey to Gillette Stadium, experiences there and near death experience on the way home were just as memorable as the game itself.
So far this fall, the national sports spotlight has shined brightly on Boston and a little bit south. If you’ve been under a rock, or just neglect to watch Sports Center, the Red Sox won the World Series, the Celtics are 17-2 and the Patriots are undefeated.
Last week, the University of Maine Women’s basketball team battled a tough Fairfield University squad in Connecticut. Six days later, the Black Bears traveled to the University of Massachusetts to play the Minutewomen in Mullens Center at Amherst, Mass., in an attempt to win just their second game of the season.
The men’s basketball team is no stranger to winning after a tough loss, and when they do win, they win big. After losing two close games early in the season at the Coaches vs. Cancer tournament, the Black Bears pummeled Fisher College 81-36. Following a 78-48 loss to Providence College, the University of Maine handled New Jersey Tech 86-58.
The University of Maine’s men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams fell to Boston University this past weekend. The men’s team lost 185-110, while the women lost 186-112.
Despite the loss, UMaine’s Courtney Healey won both backstroke events for the second consecutive week and was named America East Women’s Swimming Performer of the Week.
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