With the New Year just under ten hours away (for East Coasters), Bwog waves goodbye to 2008. If you’re around New York, and enjoy a big party, there’s always the Times Square celebration (where police expect a million people this year). 

We have already written our year in review, but the new year also brings yet a round of things to be forgotten – New Year’s Resolutions. We have compiled our own list of resolutions, and encourage you to add your own (or, of course, ridicule ours) in the comments. Happy New Year!

  • Actually pay attention to the “difficulty” part of CULPA ratings.
  • Keep a regular gym schedule during exam period
  • Read at least one book for fun.
  • Finish at least one seminar book.
  • Wean myself off of Gchat.
  • Figure out how to sync my Google Calendar to my phone, and actually use it
  • Learn to ride my bike on the street, not illegally on the sidewalk
  • Increase the ratio of homemade coffee to coffee I buy
  • Visit friends at other schools more often (corollary resolution: actually keep in touch with friends at other schools)
  • Not work on a Friday night.
  • Brush daily
  • Go to a concert (free or otherwise) once a week
  • Be active in all of my classes
  • Write 1 paper at least 2 days before it is due
  • Get a summer job before spring break
  • To spend less money on dispensable goods – i.e. coffee, diet coke, cabs, booze, cigarettes
  • Skype more and facebook less
  • Take up swimming
  • To be on time, to do my homework, to clean my dorm and do my laundry once a week, and to practice what I preach
  • Leave Morningside Heights more
  • Stop complaining about taking the subway on weekends
  • Work in places that arent butler
  • Watch more TV
  • Stop talking about how much I work all the time
  • No more passive aggression 
  • Go to >80% of my classes
  • Go to every institution made free by my Columbia ID that I haven’t been to yet
  • Go to Orgo Night, 40s on 40 unless it sucks, and at least one entire sports game
  • Play more frisbee
  • Get a job
  • Learn the name of the sweet lady who cleans Claremont
  • Do as well in engineering classes as in humanities classes
  • Actually read The Economist the week each issue is published
  • Prove that Columbians aren’t too neurotic for relationships
  • Rotate the libraries I study in so friends can’t find/interrupt me
  • Make an effort to understand football
  • Make progress in my research project
  • Manage my time more effectively (get at least one physics problem set done early)
  • Attend more office hours
  • Check cell voicemail within than two days of receiving a message
  • Learn the password to ROLM voicemail (so I can listen to the message that’s been there since orientation)
  • Keep in touch with my high school friends
  • Call my parents and grandparents more often
  • Spend less time on calls that have automated prompts
  • Travel to the other boroughs more often
  • Learn the names of all the people who live on my floor
  • Win an entire poker match, not just a couple of hands
  • Write more for personal enjoyment
  • Master the mystery of the Broadway-facing Lerner turnstile
  • Maintain a normal, healthy sleep schedule
  • Fold and hang up laundry after removing from the dryer rather than using the “giant, wrinkled pile” method of clothes organization
  • Hire a private investigator to find out my Calculus III grade
  • Get up earlier than 11am
  • Start projects before 3am on the day they’re due
  • Floss daily