Your first year of college is both an exciting and challenging experience. You are finally on your own. Parents aren’t around to set curfews, make sure you do your homework or ensure you eat right. Not to fret though, here are six secrets to ensure your first year at Salve is an exciting and rewarding one.

On Sept. 25, 2009 and Sept. 26, 2009, The Proposal, starring Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock, was shown in the DiStefano Lecture Hall and the Wakehurst Little Theater. This hilarious romantic comedy of Margaret Tate (Bullock), a cut-throat book editor, and her assistant, Andrew Paxton (Reynolds), is one that will keep you laughing the whole way through! Tate discovers that she is to be deported back to Canada due to an expired Visa, and as a result hoodwinks her assistant into marrying her so that she can keep her job.

On Sept. 29, 2009, Ricardo Lagos Escobar, former president of Chile, presented a lecture entitled “Today’s Latin American Challenges: What Lies Ahead after the Crisis?” as part of the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy’s lecture series.

Brand New’s latest release, “Daisy,” opens with some traditional piano, sweetly accompanied by a classic female voice singing along to the lyrics, “knowing when our last does fail, our compassion shall be met” in the opening track, “Vices.” Almost a minute and thirty seconds later, it’s interrupted by a wild guitar riff as lead singer, Jesse Lacey, begins to shout powerful, emotion-driven lyrics.

Anyone who has stepped foot in the women’s locker room lately has noticed the decorative posters and cards that have been plastered to the lockers by Salve’s field hockey team, a group of young women whose spirit and determination just might be enough to take them all the way.