2008

It's the beginning of the new year, and I have so much to look forward to over these next twelve months, that I thought that I should make some general hopes, predictions, and anticipations for these next 52 weeks of my life.

1. I intend to break myself of the monkey that's on my back. I'm 21 hours into a new year, and I intend to go all 8784 free of this thing that has been cursing me for the last 6 years.

2. I intend to maintain straight A's this year, without exception. I think there are several classes where this will be quite easy: Ancient Rome, Critical Thinking, French II, Biostatistics, and others where this will be extremely challenging: THESES.

3. I intend to graduate this fall, and this look really good for a fall graduation.

4. I intend on December 21 to have over 3000 dollars in my savings account, if possible. I'll have a better idea of this when summer starts. Right now, I have 500 dollars, but I'm hoping that I can work a lot this summer, and save up everything I make this year that doesn't go towards school.

Those are the 4 BIG goals this year. These are some of my smaller ones:

1. Get good scores on the GRE. I have no doubt that I can do well in the math and writing sections, but verbal reasoning is kind of eh. I've taken a couple of practice tests and gotten ridicuously skewed numbers: 480 in verbal (which sucks) and 720 in math, (which is amazing).

2. Read all of the books that I've got that I haven't yet read, which is a ton. I'm resolved not to buy another new-non school-book until all the ones I have now are read. I think it's a ridiculous number that will take basically all year, but still.

3. I plan on discarding a lot of my things this summer, as I do every summer, books that I've read that I have no intention of ever reading or using again, old clothes that I don't wear, junk papers sitting around, etc.

4. Finish all of my assignments at least a week early, if possible. I successfully did it last year in the spring, but not so much in the fall. This semester I hope will be slightly different.

5. Finish all the cross-stitches I have right now (5 I think) before I buy any more. No buying cross stitches until the ones I have are done!

I'm sure I will think of more later

By the way, I'm going to go cross stitch and movie watch now.