It's day two of 2017.

I don't know about you, but 2016 was a big year for me.

I made friends, I started college, I grew as a person. But next semester is going to be a really busy one, and I won't have time to write for the Odyssey any more. I thought I'd share my top 5 New Years Resolutions with you guys as my last article for them. They're in no particular order of importance.

1. Read my Bible more

This might sound cliché, but I went to college and discovered that, plot twist, it's super hard to balance my social life and school work. Throw in my spiritual walk, and I am dead from lack of sleep.

Well, I'm planning on changing that. I'll be crazy-busy next semester, but if I get my time management down, I should have time to do some morning reading.

2. In fact, read more in general

Even though I already do more than my fair share of extracurricular reading, I need to diversify. Of the six books I read outside of assigned reading last semester, four were historical. Two-thirds. That's a lot, and while I like historical books and could read them forever, there are tons of excellent works from all sorts of genres that I haven't read. Jane Eyre, for instance.

3. Work out more regularly

Well, this isn't fair to all of you who don't know me, but for those of you who do, you understand. I'm pretty skinny. My goal is to get some real muscle on my bones by summer.

The main problem? I broke my foot in November. That complicates things, obviously. I'll have to figure something out.

4. Write more poetry

I am an atrocious poet, but it's an excellent way to release any sort of stress I might have.

Poetry is a beautiful medium and I hope to get a good deal of stuff written—no matter how bad it is, actually writing it is better than not.

5. Be more creative and open-minded—in everything

I can be a pretty black-and-white person. I'm not a huge math guy, but I like my problems with just one answer. I like to be either right or wrong.

That's not how art is. That's not how to be creative.

So the most general-purpose resolution is just that: be creative. Look at things from more than one perspective.

Hope y'all have a happy new year.