2020 vision: community members share their goals for the new year

Senior Leah McKirgan said that she intentionally never makes New Year’s resolutions because she feels like she can never live up to her expectations. She noticed that everyone always says that they will completely change their lives with unrealistic goals; however, they never end up doing what they said they would. In order to avoid the disappointment of not fulfilling her resolutions, Leah chooses n...

Sophomore Eve Spencer usually makes New Year's resolutions, but has only recently actually started writing them down. This year, she plans to run more outside and drink more water. “Some of [my] resolutions are hard to exactly ‘accomplish’ because a lot of them are something [I] want to do more, or get better at.” She finds that she usually improves on these by the end of the year. However, sh...

Senior Chris Arnold almost always makes New Year’s resolutions. This year, his two biggest goals are to go vegan and to eliminate or at least limit his consumption of fast and unethical fashion brands. Going to college, he hopes, will be the perfect opportunity to implement these goals. Chris finds that he is usually pretty bad at accomplishing resolutions; for example, he almost always tries to read ...

Junior Charlie Wind made a lot of New Year’s resolutions when he was younger, but has not done it in the last couple years and did not make any resolutions this year. However, he wants to work on being happier and working harder. “If you are happy then a lot of other things go better,” he notes. There is nothing he wants to change in his life, so he wants to keep things where they are going into t...