This post was written by senior Niketa Brar, a Hatchet columnist.
After the New Year’s confetti stops gleaming and the bottles of bubbly run out, the new year is often ushered in with little more than a new calendar and the constant reminder to date everything with an ’09 instead of an ’08. But this year, I looked at the turn of the calendar page as an opportunity for something different. Maybe it’s the Obama spirit in me, or perhaps it’s the optimism that’s already beginning to fill this city. But for some reason, I’m trying to ask more of myself this year.
The temptation to become complacent in college is incredibly high. Our friends share our homes and classes, our classes reward minimal effort and our padded resumes seem to get us jobs that will do just fine for now. It’s clear why we start to take our social, academic and work lives for granted. But at some point, the minimum is no longer enough. And change is definitely required.
This change can be as simple as scheduling more dinners with your roommates or adding a class that challenges you. But it can also be as overwhelming as an overhaul of one’s career goals and looking for jobs that do more than just pay the bills. Whatever the change may be – for better or worse – it is, without a doubt, necessary. Without the good, bad, or whatever else may result, we’ll all be stuck in the same rut we were in yesterday. And that’s just boring.