How is the new year going for you? Good? Awesome? Very ‘meh’? How did you celebrate the New Year? With fireworks? With friends? By yourself? Or were you too busy studying for your finals to worry about such trivial nonsense? Well, regardless of how you chose to celebrate two-double-oh-seven, it won’t mean squat until you choose to make the most of the remaining 362 days, today included.

I’ve already made up a list of resolutions for this year. I know that many of you think it’s an exercise in futility, seeing that most of us don’t have the willpower or the drive to make our resolutions become a reality. I feel the same way too, and I’ve been in that situation many, many times. But this year will be different, I can feel it. Chalk it up to optimism, if you want to. Too much cynicism never does anyone any good. So I’m still willing to hope, and willing to work to make my resolutions more than just a list I conjured up.

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