Bored as usual on this second (well now third) day of the newest of years, I began looking on Facebook, as I normally do when I'm bored, and started reading notes people have written for themselves on ways they're going to improve themselves for the upcoming year. I think this practice is the most arbitrary in "life-changing maneuvers" because you literally have decided that January 1st, 2008 is the day the rest of your life begins as opposed to it being the result of a personal event and/or epiphany any other time of the year (unless yours happened to have come around New Year's...Orl Korrect for you). With that said, instead of presenting ways I'm going to better myself this year, I'll submit to you a list of things for 2008:

• Somehow hover over a 2.0 GPA for my entrance to major requirement...pretty difficult with my 3.33 cumulative.
• Have a great time at THON considering it'll be the last with Harrisburg.
  
• Somehow manage to get a PS3 for when MGS4 comes out. (this should be higher on the list, but didn't think of it until now)
• Start a physical journal one which people can write their thoughts in as well, maybe just for the year as its gonna be one of these big transition years. (this was an idea I got from a great brother of mine Joe Marks)
• Intern somewhere (hopefully with David Letterdude or any other show network or cable)
• Work at The Door for a 5th straight summer
• Take time to go somewhere thats more North than Boston, more West than State College, more South than Charlottesville, East? not much there except Long Island...I guess I could go there too.
• Start life at University Park :-)

Well those are things certainly. Surely there's more to be covered, but I think I hit the points I know are coming up. As I sure learned last year more than ever, life is fuckin crazy. There's always something that is going to be changing and this year more than any other I remember, I'm expecting lots and lots of changes not only in my own life, but in the lives of the people around me and of course the country. So this is 2008, the year of things and stuff.

-Mikhail