Comments on: Your New (School) Year’s Resolution

By: mario oyunlarÄ±

mario oyunlarÄ± — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:44:26 +0000

My resolution will be to learn my bass, I think. Iâ€™ve had it for a few years and never had the opportunity, but now Iâ€™ve found someone who can teach me. Now I just need to remember to e-mail it..

By: Hastings

Hastings — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:22:40 +0000

Wait, didn’t Obama recommend this in his speech to students nationwide yesterday? As far as a resolution…I like the idea. I’m currently working towards a certification and masters in education. One course this semester requires four 10 page papers. I resolve not to wait till the weekend before they are due to start writing them!

I recommend “The Pirate Coast” by Richard Zacks. You can learn a little about the first war our country fought as an independent nation as well as why the marine’s sing about “the shores of Tripoli.”

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By: sarah

sarah — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:15:50 +0000

You’ve inspired me to actually volunteer for the causes I look up and bookmark but take no further I sent 2 e-mails tonight to different organizations to get the ball rolling.

Thanks!

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:14:42 +0000

Last year, I was an elementary school teacher and my personal new (school) year resolution was to build a bridge and get over a colleague that I really couldn’t stand working with. I (mostly) accomplished that one, with significant effort on my part.

This year, I am a full time grad student. My new (school) year resolution is NOT to be the last one to leave the classroom or discussion. I tend to linger and I resolve to stop.

I, of course, have other goals and things to work on. But I think a resolution should be a challenge, specific, and in the interest of bettering myself.

By: Brooke

Brooke — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:31:05 +0000

My new (school) year’s resolution is to have more self-confidence. It’s been holding me back big time for a while now, especially for the last year or so, and I’m just sick of always feeling inadequate when people whose opinions I can trust tell me I’m really not. By the end of this school year, I will have received my bachelor’s degree, and I want things to turn around for me before I start graduate school next fall.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:58:12 +0000

Some good suggestions for resolutions and for books. My resolutions, with the caveat that I can wait to start till I’ve moved in two weeks are:
1. Sign up for continuing Portuguese lessons (once signed up, I’m committed)
2. Learn to ballroom dance.
3. Get my Microsoft Office Specialist Certification (good suggestion).
4. Do not substitute television for a social life.

By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:30:01 +0000

My new (school) year’s resolution is to write some thing. Preferably the book I have been attempting to write for the last five years.

By: Medic

Medic — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:28:38 +0000

1.Wake up on time. 2.apply my self 3.wake up on time

By: Hyacinth

Hyacinth — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:24:52 +0000

I am going to work toward my Microsoft Office Specialist Certification. I have been kicking it around and really have no excuse since 1) I like the stuff and 2) there is a training and testing center very near my home. Maybe I can even get my boss to pay for it!

By: Jonny

Jonny — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:53:33 +0000

I would recommend “Guests of the Ayatollah” by Mark Bowden about the ’79 Hostage Crisis. Excellent book, and gave me insight into the jailed reporter situation this yr. My first memories were seeing this story on the evening news w/ Walter Cronkite counting the days of captivity, but I had no real understanding of the reasons behind the actions, or hearing the stories of the hostages after they’d been released.

I’m also planning to read Halberstam’s “The Coldest Winter” about the Korean War. I’ve read 2 of his books and like his journalistic style trying to tell all sides of the story RIP D.H.

I would also recommend “An Imperfect God: Geo Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America” by Henry Wiencek. Not only does it take a look at the history of George Washington that is little talked about, it also gives you a real idea of what slavery was like in practice. I read this during Black History Month.

“Miracle At Philadelphia” – about the Constitutional Convention. I quoted from this when my sister and I were arguing over the merits of the Stimulus bill, and which I think goes for the current Health Care Reform debate:

“I consent, Sir, to this Constitution, because I expect no better and because I am not sure that it is not the best…Sir, I cannont help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention who may still have objections to it, would w/ me,…doubt a little of his own infallibility…” – Ben Franklin