Students share New Year’s Resolutions

Joshan Smith, Sophomore
December 14, 2009
Filed under Features

WITH EVERY January 1^st comes a special tradition called New Year’s resolutions. This is when people set goals to keep while the New Year progresses. Usually adults make New Year’s resolutions to get a new job or a promotion, ask that special someone on a date, or just to lose a few extra pounds.

But this idea of setting resolutions for the upcoming year has spilled to the youth of our time. Children and teenagers are now making goals for themselves to get better grades in school, to stay organized in school, or even to ask that special someone on a date.

Journalist Joshan Smith, went around the junior high and elementary buildings at GACS to interviewe students about their New Year’s resolutions. Here are some of the responses:

Fourth grade elementary student  Brandon Runkel stated that in the New Year he wants to “stop eating all the chocolate I want.”

Fifth grade student Jennae Alexander states that in the New Year she hopes to “stop biting my fingernails.”

Eighth grade student, Anthony Mistretta, states that in the New Year he wants to “only drink sodas on the weekend.”

Seventh graders Mycah Boland, Kristina Reynolds, Becca Dusek, Rachel Samaras and eighth grader Jessica Dusek states that in the New Year they all want to “make a good grades in Latin.”

We can all learn from these young students about how they are applying themselves to become better people in life. The caution is not to set yourself up for disappointment. Try to choose one or two manageable resolutions. Start small.

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