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While some seniors still feel some sort of anxiety at the mere thought of finals, freshman Eric "Church Boy" Clinton doesn’t have a nervous bone in his body…well maybe one.

“I’m not nervous at all about taking any finals,” Clinton said. “I’m expecting to do great on them because they’re all very easy, especially being a freshman.”

They are all very easy, except for one. While the majority of his classes come easy to him, like math and philosophy, economics is no cake walk.

“Economics, I’m very worried about because economics is one of my hardest subjects. I have Dr. Savage, who is a savage, I love her though,” Clinton said.

Although economics may be a challenge for him, Clinton has been hitting the books with a study group, which he hopes will lead to successful outcomes on all of his finals.

“I make sure that I have people around me who want to succeed,” Clinton says.

“By having people around me who want to succeed I know that there is a greater chance I will succeed and less chance of me failing, I mean if you hang around people who fail, you’re going to fail. So, I surround myself around really intellectual people, so I can get where I need to be.”

Most students look forward to end of finals or more so the winter break that follows, but for Clinton that time will be bittersweet, as he heads back to Middletown, Conn. for the holidays.

“I’m not ready to go home, I don’t know what I’m going to do at home. I know what I was going to do here, there is so many people here.”

He continues.

“I don’t know what I’m going to do for a month, it’s going to be crazy. I like classes, I like seeing people and I love meeting people and doing things and clubs, so, it’s going to be weird to go home. But, it’s alright because I love it anyway,” he said.

Clinton plans to return to Southern for the spring semester, with many plans in mind.

Southern has become a good place to be and do various, multiple things. I’ve made so many friends here,” he said.

“I’m moving up in ranks very fast, very quickly, so I’m trying to get a job by next semester and do all these other things and probably an RA by my sophomore year. So, beautifulness on everything.”

Listen to the full interview below...

Being a CT Transit bus operator comes with it's perks, just ask newbie driver Locksley Cummingham.

"Intially, I use to be a school bus driver, so I wanted to do something that was more progressive, more hours, make more money, more stable," he said.

Previously, a school bus driver for First Student, Cummingham found he needed a change.

Cummingham has been with CT Transit for four months, driving multiple routes around New Haven. But, before he could hit the road--again, he had to go through six-weeks extensive training. he explains.

"That covers skill and procedures, farebox, defensive driving, and some other stuff and routes. Learning the routes, that's the most important thing because you can live in New Haven and you just don't know the bus routes. That's key," he said.

"I do a different route everyday for five days," Cummingham said.

"That includes; today we doing the O, that goes to the mall and to Winchester, tomorrow I might be doing the D that goes to Dixwell and East Haven; the next day, I might do the F; and the next day I might do the B, so everyday is a different thing."

While the benefits package may be enticing, the job itself can much more rewarding.

"I'm a people person so helping people along the way is what makes my day go by," Cummingham said.

"The bad thing is that you're always going to have that one obnoxious person that you have to deal with and you just have to know how to handle that and you can't let that ruin you day."

Cummingham highlights one obnoxious person in particular, who gave his fellow passengers a one-way ticket to karaoke night.

"A guy on the bus that's a singer all the way to Ansonia and he wouldn't stop singing. At first it was enjoyable; until it becomes annoying and it was annoying because of the other passengers and so I had to step in and stop it and that was my craziest one because he came back another time and he wanted to sing again and I said no I had to put a stopping to that," he said.

While he's never spent time one the passengers' side , Cummingham can see beyond the driver's seat.

"The interesting thing about it is that I've lived in Connecticut for over thirty years, never took the bus," he said.