Tagged - New Year
goals
Notes by Nadia: Why you might not be sticking to your New Year’s resolutions
If you want to achieve your New Year’s resolutions without immediately burning out, you need to start slow. Goals aren’t achieved overnight. Read More
cultural holidays
Why your New Year’s resolutions should be indulgently impossible
It was two days after New Year’s, but I sat down and made The List anyway just because Why Not. Read More
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The controversy over Lunar New Year
You wouldn’t ask non-religious Americans to skip Christmas morning to stare at research papers for a couple hours, so why are you expecting the same from students who simply don’t celebrate the same holidays as you? Read More
goals
2022 is “MY” year
Isn’t it absolutely bonkers that every year, we subject ourselves to the idea of keeping up with one particular “promise” for the entire year, when most of us can’t even stick to the same Starbucks order for more than a week? Read More
New Year
UR Snapshots Vol. 5: New Year’s resolutions
"I’d say my resolution is to live a year of unapologetic happiness." Read More
china
Year of the Pig: Chinese New Year Cook Off
Despite nationwide class cancellations due to the frigid weather, UR students are still going strong. As February opens a new chapter, the Chinese New Year festival approaches with warmth and festivity. In Mandarin, Chinese New Year is called “Chun Jie,” an important festival where families reunite and spend time together. Despite the vivid cultural differences […]
New Year
New Year’s resolutions are inherently Sisyphean
I tend to approach the New Year and new beginnings with optimism, but that is completely baseless considering the lack of past successes I have had. Yet I annually hope and try to be better. I always hold the naive notion that this year will be different, despite all my previous failures. Whether my resolution […]
