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101 New Year’s Resolutions for 2025

The easier the resolution, the more likely you are to keep it!

New Year’s Resolutions are a time honoured tradition that barely any of us stick with. You start the year with the best of intentions, planning to hit the gym everyday or read six books a month. By March you’ve remembered your preference for lying on the couch and watching television. To help you out we’ve devised 101 easy-peasy New Year’s Resolutions! Pick one and next New Year’s Eve can you proudly tell everyone you kept your resolution. They don’t need to know what that resolution was.

School

  1. Finish all readings before class, not during class
  2. Refrain from using the word 鈥渆xemplified鈥 more than five times in one essay
  3. Make it to 9:00 a.m. classes no more than five minutes late
  4. Stop enrolling in 9:00 a.m. classes you know you鈥檒l always be late to
  5. Study for more than 45 minutes without going on your phone 
  6. Don鈥檛 stay up late watching Netflix on school nights 
  7. Proofread your essays instead of turning them in and hoping for the best
  8. Memorize citation styles so you don鈥檛 have to look up an example for every assignment
  9. Attend your professor’s office hours for once 鈥 maybe
  10. Pay attention in class instead of scrolling through Pinterest
  11. Somehow make it off campus before sunset everyday
  12. Bond with at least one classmate over how much you hate your shared class
  13. Refrain from dropping a class every time you get a less than amazing grade
  14. Bring a packed lunch for longer than two weeks into the semester 
  15. Avoid buying an iced coffee on campus everyday
  16. Always remember to charge your laptop the night before
  17. Have at least one pen that works
  18. Pay your tuition on time
  19. Don鈥檛 lose your bus pass or student ID until at least March
  20. Ask a question when you鈥檙e confused instead of suffering in silence
  21. Start working on assignments before the night they鈥檙e due
  22. Read at least one syllabus fully
  23. Listen to educational podcasts instead of only celebrity gossip ones
  24. Find new study spots around campus
  25. Actually read the book you鈥檝e had in your backpack since September
  26. Stop staring at other peoples鈥 laptops during lectures 
  27. Delete the endless PDFs from your laptop desktop
  28. Actually read your textbooks
  29. Clean out your backpack
  30. Stop hiding in the back of the classroom and get your participation mark
  31. Compliment a classmate鈥檚 outfit
  32. Walk through HUB mall without stopping to get a treat
  33. Don’t be too hard on yourself when you get a bad grade
  34. Stop online shopping during class 
  35. Try to go to every library on campus at least once
  36. Regularly remind yourself that you鈥檙e trying really hard, and are doing a great job
  37. Update your computer so it doesn鈥檛 crash when you go to submit that research paper
  38. Clean out your inbox and organize your emails
  39. Talk to at least one person in every class on the first day of the semester
  40. Make it from Tory to ECHA in less than 10 minutes
  41. Complete all the SPOT surveys at the end of the semester
  42. Check out the rock-climbing gym

Residence

  1. Eat something else rather than pizza or something from the Deli bar
  2. Don鈥檛 forget your towel when you go to shower 
  3. Don鈥檛 file a noise complaint
  4. Don鈥檛 get a noise complaint filed about you 
  5. Go for breakfast for one week straight 
  6. Attend an event hosted by residence 
  7. Check your mailbox once a week 
  8. Stop procrastinating doing your laundry

Student Life

  1. Eat something other than ramen noodles at least once a week
  2. Buy 鈥 and actually eat 鈥 fruits and veggies
  3. Start going to sleep before 3:00 a.m.
  4. Refrain from buying yourself a sweet treat anytime something goes slightly wrong
  5. Actually get out of bed the first time your alarm goes off
  6. Try not to fall on the ice while running for the bus
  7. Clean your bathroom at least every two weeks
  8. Meet up with friends on campus for coffee once a week
  9. Ask for your campus crush for their number
  10. Read a book for fun instead of scrolling through TikTok
  11. Pick up a new hobby and actually stick with it, at least until midterms
  12. Don鈥檛 try the next viral TikTok food trend
  13. Try a campus recreational fitness class 
  14. Attend one league game for every U of A sports team
  15. Take a walk around the entire campus instead of just one quad 
  16. Call your mom at least once a month, she misses you
  17. Actually drink water (no coffee doesn鈥檛 count)
  18. Say thank you when you get off the bus
  19. Wipe the snow off your boots when entering buildings 鈥 nobody likes sludge, outdoors or indoors
  20. Keep a plant alive for longer than one week
  21. Wear an appropriate winter coat when it鈥檚 -40 degrees Celsius out
  22. Try to avoid the temptation of buying a Subway cookie every day
  23. Join a club
  24. Attend the club meetings more than twice a semester 
  25. Actually talk to people at these club meetings
  26. Don鈥檛 leave planning next year鈥檚 schedule to the last minute
  27. Start making a weekly spending budget 

Unserious

  1. Visit Guba in the bookstore at least once a week
  2. Always be wearing at least one piece of U of A merch. School spirit is important
  3. Finally fill out a SUBMart slurpee stamp card and claim your free slurpee
  4. Get to SUBMart before they run out of your favourite chips
  5. Do every Perks app activity so you can finally get that Gatecrasher
  6. Stop saying you鈥檙e going to drop out at every minor inconvenience
  7. Stop going to the mall, you know you鈥檙e going to spend too much money
  8. Win a celebrity look-a-like contest
  9. Stop saying you鈥檙e going to kidnap every cute dog you see
  10. Learn every path for walking indoors during winter on campus 
  11. Build a snowman in the main quad 
  12. Write a song about your university experience at the U of A 
  13. Make friends with the campus geese
  14. Avoid HUB at all costs
  15. Listen to at least one 鈥淩ory Gilmore鈥 study playlist
  16. Make friends with the campus squirrels 

The 91热爆

  1. Read thegatewayonline.ca everyday
  2. Attend every 91热爆 to Cinema. It is free after all
  3. Write one article for The 91热爆
  4. Attend a 91热爆 meeting 
  5. Attend open house and not just for the free pizza
  6. Write an article for a section you wouldn鈥檛 normally write for 
  7. Say hi to The 91热爆 at the Winter Warm-up
  8. Put a 91热爆 sticker on your laptop

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