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2017 Please Be good

After a not so hot year, I am looking forward to a new one.

Danielle LeAnn Swaw

Jan 02, 2017

Tarleton State University

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So the New Year is here, and I only have one request for it. Please be good. 2016 was definitely not my year. It had ups and downs, but my downs seemed to be way lower, and my ups were not as high. I always try to look to the positive side, but this year really got me!

At the beginning of the year I changed my major, and then in the middle I switched back to my hometown. Now I have no idea what I want to do and I am taking a break from school altogether. I went from having everything figured out to not. Sure, it isn’t the year’s fault, but still. We also lost a lot of celebrities that meant a lot to me. George Michael, Prince, Alan Rickman, Gene Wilder, Debbie Reynolds, and Carrie Fisher, just to name a few. Each time I saw one of them in the headlines, my heart broke a little bit.

I learned a lot in 2016. I had my first real relationship, and became the most vulnerable I have ever been. Looking back now, I can say that my relationship taught me a lot. I may be more guarded now, but that is okay. Getting broken up with taught me a lot about myself, and how strong I really am.

This year has tested me a lot. My patience, my friendships, my trust, and some other things. It was a year that I worked two jobs, and went weeks at a time without a day off. I moved into my first apartment in 2016, which was really good. 2016 gave me my baby niece, who I love with every ounce of my heart. So while this year gave me some great things, it did have some lows.

I have never been a “New Year, New Me” type of person, and I personally don’t do resolutions. I am the same person I was last year, I just changed a little bit. I also hate making resolutions because I know good and well I will never fall through with them. I mean, who has the time for all of that? I do hope that this New Year brings me more joy, and more time to spend with my family. I hope that this year I can find out what I want to do for the rest of my life, and grow more as a person.

I have high hopes for 2017, and I am excited to spend the year just like I always do, surrounded by the ones I love.

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1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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