Since we have to wait a long twenty years for another solar eclipse, we would like to share a few eclipse tips for the Boston University hockey team and their fans:

• Kindly remind your provisional students that the eclipse does not mean six more weeks of winter.

• Relax BU hockey fans. The cover of darkness you see on Monday afternoon is not your ‘hockey daddy,’ Boston College, casting a shadow

• The partial eclipse start time is at precisely 2:16 p.m. Don’t confuse this with the scheduled fly-over of United Flt. #518 from Logan to Miami.

• Bostonians will experience 92.55% of the full eclipse. Ironically, that is the average GPA BU hockey players receive when taking the class Learning to See. The course “allows students to see color and composition in the design of advertisements, propaganda, and appliances.”

• It will be more than two decades until the next total solar eclipse’s path, nearly the same time it takes to drive through the O’Neill Tunnel during rush hour.

• The temperature drops rapidly, the sky goes pitch black, and the birds start losing their minds. And that was just after BU lost the Hockey East final 6-2.

• The best way to watch the eclipse for Bostonians? Get a piece of paper and a pin. Poke a hole in the paper. Look through the hole, turn on your TV, and watch the news Monday night.

• The most common response Boston residents give for not planning on watching the eclipse? “Not invented here.”

• Set your watch. Peak eclipse occurs 3:29 p.m. in Boston on Monday. The total eclipse, however, happens for BU hockey at 5:00 pm EST Thursday in St. Paul.