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Blazers' New Year's resolutions


Dec. 22, 2004, midnight | 19 years, 4 months ago

What you and your classmates want to change in 2005

Silver Chips Online has compiled Blair students' New Year's resolutions. Enjoy reading other students' and faculty members' comments, and feel free to leave us your own in the comment box below.

"My New Year's resolutions are to calm down more because I'm hyper, to be more responsible, to always look at situation from other people's perspectives, to make certain people (my friends) not curse too much, to do better in academics and be more involved in school activities."
- junior Semhar Solomon

"I want to deck at least ten in hockey and I want to win a game."
- sophomore Lewis Shattan

"I don't have any because I'm a teenager and I don't think I need to change right now."
- junior Mayra Zelaya

"Our New Year's resolutions are to catch a squirrel with our bare hands, to get cornrows and a forehead piercing and to tryout for the Special Olympics."
- freshmen Tyler Keloy and Julian Shapiro

"I guess to become more confident and open with everyone and stop being so uptight."
- sophomore Yana Schick

"To stretch everyday for 30 minutes for break dancing. I've tried before, but it hasn't worked. This time will be different."
- senior David Hesler

"To get a boyfriend. I'm desperate. As long as he's straight and tall, and he has to be nice."
- sophomore Ashley Carroll

"To get my phone back from Ms. Hurley."
- senior Matt Warren

"To eat more fruit."
- senior Nathan Barrymore

"I don't believe in resolutions. They're really stupid because there's only one time of the year to set goals for yourself. If you mess up in the first week, then it's over already."
- sophomore Emily Sutton

"To stop putting my gum under the metal latch on the lockers."
- senior Katie Schlebecker

"To learn how to knit, so I don't have to crochet because crocheting is disgusting."
- senior Sabrina Shapiro

"I'm going to try to not talk about my friends behind their backs."
- sophomore Zoe Norvell

"I want to find true love. I say that every year, but it's going to happen."
- junior Katrina Jabonete

"To get up off my butt, stop procrastinating and get a job. I want to get on the ball during senior year."
- junior Nena Perry-Brown

"My New Year's resolution is to make sure that second semester, we hype up the class of '05!"
- senior Alejandra Barberena

"Me, personally, I'd say I'd want to get rid of all my negativity and make peace with my soul."
- senior Zullma Parada

"I'm going to have fun with my best friends in my last year of high school and make memories."
- senior Ada Onwuka

"I am curing a friend of claustrophobia by a graduated system of bringing them to larger and more populated places."
- junior Heather Hurt

"My new year's resolution is to find out the average land-running speed of a hippopotamus. I'm going to ask everyone I see."
- senior Julianna Allen

"My new year's resolution is to pass my driver's test the first time I take it. I want to drive my friends places, myself places, and make my brother jealous. He didn't pass it the first time, or the second."
- sophomore Maggy Vaughan

"My new year's resolution is I want to successfully ollie a five-stair. I've been working on it for months."
- freshman Mathew Dant

"To decrease my profanity, study more, watch less TV, and stop going to the mall and checkin out so many guys."
- senior Angela Hayes

"I don't have one because I'm perfect as I am."
- senior Aminata Jalloh

"I don't have a resolution because I never stick to it, so why bother? I have committment issues."
- senior Rut Beyene

"Learn to speak Portugese (so I can talk to hot Brazilian girls)."
- senior Austin Grasty

"Have a New Year's Resolution!"
- junior Tess Minnick

"I hate New Year's Resolutions. I hate New Year's. It's the only holiday I hate more than my birthday."
- junior Phillip Hoyle

"For the New Year, I want to build up my ziggurat."
- junior Shwetadwip Chowdhury

"I don't make resolutions because I probably wouldn't be able to keep them."
- junior Amelyne Major

"My New Year's resolution is to stop procrastinating because its a bad habit."
- senior Franklin Mesa

"To stop biting my nails."
- sophomore Claire Lieberman


"My new year's resolutions are to lose five pounds and get good grades."
- junior Tinny Lee

"To tell you the truth i haven't thought about it. For New Years the whole family at 12 midnight we celebrate and give out cups with 12 grapes in them to everyone for the 12 months in the year. For each grape we make a wish . It leads to what we want to fulfill or accomplish for the year."
- senior Stephanie Lobos
"To walk my dog more often because she's getting fat."
- senior Hellen Jimenez

"I was thinking about shaving my head and not cutting it for the rest of the year."
- sophomore Osmar Brenes

"I want to stop being a pushover. It sucks that people take advantage of you. So far I'm doing good."
- junior Bessrat Hagos

"To go outside. I haven't been outside all year. I've been inside online and watching TV. I need to spend more time with Mother Nature."
- sophomore Patti Tenicela

"I want to be more beautiful than I am right now and maybe lose some weight. I already have good grades so I have to keep that up."
- junior Reine Queen Momo

"I would like to stop smoking and eventually graduate. I need to start thinking about college and the future too."
- senior Erick Pena

"I plan on going to church more often and eating more to get bigger. Also I want to get straight As next year and start my new job."
- junior Prince Okrah

"I want to end all wars, stop world hunger, destroy famine and educate all the children, but on a personal note, I would also like to stop being a procrastinator.
- senior Simone Chukwuezi

"I actually have a resolution this year to finish reading the Koran and convert to Islam."
- sophomore Jordan Turner

"I've been wanting to organize some sort of "We have rights too" parade and get the word out to march with me in front of the White House and show Dubya that we bisexuals/homosexuals are normal people who just want to have the same rights as everyone else."
- freshman Elissa Fischel

"My New Year's resolution is to start a band."
- junior Sean Conte

"While I am not the type of person to make New Year's resolutions, I would say that this year I vow to: 1. Check for IDs better. 2. Hasten kids to class faster. 3. Yell at and belittle kids more when they do not do what I ask. 4. Improve my time in the 100-yard dash. 5. Work on my singing and dancing skills."
- Health teacher and baseball coach John MacDonald



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