Lifestyle

It’s that time of the year. Projects due dates are nearing, and finals season is just around the corner. It’s time to take a serious look at what fuels us for the last grueling stretch of academia and what hurts us. As most college students know, caffeine is a must to get through those late nights of finishing up semester projects, papers and studying for finals, but the coffee actually might be hurting more than helping.   According to numerous sleep studies like this one, drinking caffeine…

Time management is a skill that many college students struggle with. Due tomorrow, do tomorrow, anybody? But motherhood has put how I negotiate my time into sharp focus almost overnight. As a single mom and a student, I have had to re-evaluate my habits. My main goal as a mom is to spend as much quality time with my daughter as possible so I’ve made it a rule to separate…

Here are five movies slated to release to theaters in March The Lasso recommends catching. “A Wrinkle in Time,” the beloved children’s book is coming to theatres March 9 and features Oprah Winfrey, Mindy Kaling and Reese Witherspoon as the three celestial guides. Bring the little ones along for the ride through space and time as Meg and her brother try to find their lost father. “Gringo” is a dark…

The first time I drove by Mr. Frosty’s, I knew that I had to stop in. I couldn’t help but look inside the glass windows under the neon lights. The benches look like they’d been stolen right out of a 50s movie, and their menu is a white-board full of little, black, plastic letters. I made a mental note to myself to stop in soon, as I thought they surely…