Finals week stressing you out? Here are some helpful tips to get you through.

Well, for UNO students finals week is here. Every student gets stressed in some way during this time of year. Though everyone handles stress in different ways, here are some helpful tips that everyone can benefit from.

The key to effective studying in a short amount of time is prioritizing.

Prioritizing doesn't mean making yourself a schedule of 24 hours in a day and then placing times for when you will study for each individual test. When trying to set up a study schedule for the finals that you will be undertaking it is important to remember these 3 things.

1. Don't try and study every hour of the day. Instead, set up 2 to 3 hours at a time to study one subject and give yourself at least a half hour between each study session. During that half hour break, do something completely opposite of studying, such as watching TV, cooking, napping, or even showering. Studies have shown that if you study for up to 3 hours and shower or take a bath before you begin your next subject, you feel clean and refreshed and ready to take on a new subject, putting the material you learned in your last study session in your brains memory box.

2. Don't study instead of sleep. Some people wait to the last minute to begin studying for their tests, for them this rule does not apply. Plan ahead in your studying but don't study all day and study all night. If you body doesn't have adequate amounts of sleep then you won't be able to hold all of the knowledge you are trying to learn. You will be left with an empty brain and an exhausted body.

3. Don't study instead of eat, and don't eat junk foods because you think you don't have enough time to eat. Part of your study habits should be to break for a half hour. That is plenty of time to trek to the kitchen and find yourself something to eat that is healthy and will help in your studies. Fruits, vegetables, sports drinks with enzymes, and green tea drinks are the material that your brain needs to keep working and not get fried in your studying frenzy. Fast food will only make your studying worse along with making your body feel worse.

Avoid Procrastinating

If you procrastinate studying for final exams your stress level will have no choice but to shoot up when crunch time comes and you begin cramming. It is the end of the semester, and students as well as teachers are ready to call it a break, but you must teach yourself that you are not over until the last exam is handed in. Don't wait to finish the semester until the last minute, study ahead of time and finish the semester conifident, not worn out.

Avoid Temptation

While studying or finishing papers on your computer, don't stray to websites, facebook, or myspace. If you stay on the task you have at hand you will be much more successful as you study and finish papers. Stick to what needs to be done and it will be done that much faster.

Good luck to all UNO students as they finish their semester. Take the helpful hints and put them into your studying habits. You never know, they could end up being what makes your semester end smoothly.