Editor's note:
New Year's resolutions
Issue date: 12/3/08 Section: Opinion
By Chanel Reeder
Editor in chief
The end of a year often finds people looking back on the life that they led in the past 12 months, and looking forward to a new year and new resolutions. In this issue, The Woods takes a step back and looks at what has happened so far in our school year. And, in many ways, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College has made resolutions of its own.
Many of the stories that we have reported on this year are not finished. For example, the recycling program is just now taking off, again. There is so much more that can be done, not even by a committee, but by individuals themselves.
Security is never ending. Our world is constantly changing, and therefore we must always keep a watchful eye. And just because a resolution is made at the beginning of a year, for a year, does not necessarily mean that progress has to end at a year. The Program Analysis Committee process is somewhat of a school resolution that will not find finality at the end of this year. Instead, academic and departmental growth should know no bounds and should grow and change not only because they are told to, but because it is the healthy thing to do.
I am not a person who makes resolutions. I have never seen the point in them and I usually make trivial ones such as, "Only have soda once a week." I almost never keep them and don't find that they improve my life. However, this year, I am going to make resolutions, and I'd like to see the campus community make them with me. Besides, don't they always say that if you have a buddy for your resolutions you are more likely to keep them?
My first resolution is to continue to get involved in all that I can. I cannot simply sit idly by and watch other people change the world without me. Maybe changing the world seems like drastic wording, but for many of us, our world is this campus. It is where we are educated, where we work, where we live and who we are. It doesn't have to even be much, but imagine what the world would be like if we all picked one thing that we are passionate about and immerse ourselves fully in this opportunity.
Editor in chief
The end of a year often finds people looking back on the life that they led in the past 12 months, and looking forward to a new year and new resolutions. In this issue, The Woods takes a step back and looks at what has happened so far in our school year. And, in many ways, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College has made resolutions of its own.
Many of the stories that we have reported on this year are not finished. For example, the recycling program is just now taking off, again. There is so much more that can be done, not even by a committee, but by individuals themselves.
Security is never ending. Our world is constantly changing, and therefore we must always keep a watchful eye. And just because a resolution is made at the beginning of a year, for a year, does not necessarily mean that progress has to end at a year. The Program Analysis Committee process is somewhat of a school resolution that will not find finality at the end of this year. Instead, academic and departmental growth should know no bounds and should grow and change not only because they are told to, but because it is the healthy thing to do.
I am not a person who makes resolutions. I have never seen the point in them and I usually make trivial ones such as, "Only have soda once a week." I almost never keep them and don't find that they improve my life. However, this year, I am going to make resolutions, and I'd like to see the campus community make them with me. Besides, don't they always say that if you have a buddy for your resolutions you are more likely to keep them?
My first resolution is to continue to get involved in all that I can. I cannot simply sit idly by and watch other people change the world without me. Maybe changing the world seems like drastic wording, but for many of us, our world is this campus. It is where we are educated, where we work, where we live and who we are. It doesn't have to even be much, but imagine what the world would be like if we all picked one thing that we are passionate about and immerse ourselves fully in this opportunity.
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