What is 2009 going to be for you?

[Bizarre Atheist]

For me, 2009 will be the year I run a marathon, graduate, and with any luck enter the world of work.

What is the year going to bring for you fine Sinners?

[Power Metal Dom]

I'll treat this like an optimistic New Year's resolutions thread:

Get respectable 15ish grades in my modules
Lose 1/2 stones of weight
Learn to drive
Buy a Wii
Go on a holiday
Bulk the CV a bit
Drink less
Earn more bunsen

[Delts]

Hopefully I get back onto my intended degree, get a position that I aim to run for, have a load of successful events with fuzzmund and find some more awesome bands, make a ton on a good summer job and end the year in a good financial position, doing well on my degree, far fitter, playing bass regularly and knowing enough about ents that I rival MeerkatMan, Spike and Orudge knowledge wise.

[edit] A holiday would be good as well. I'd like to hit up Sweden at some point and have enough to go boarding in 2010 [/edit]

[RandomMusings]

Ditto to Mr Atheist really. Graduate, find gainful employment both for next year and for the longer-term future. I'd quite like to get my concentration back if possible too.

Oh, and....

... and knowing enough about ents that I rival MeerkatMan, Spike and Orudge knowledge wise...

...you will never be able to do that Delts - we are one (well, three) of a kind!

[Duggeh]

I should like to by the completion of 2009 be capable of growing a beard. I find it a source of irritation that there are teenagers that can do it and yet I remain incapable.

Graduation and all that shit too.

[James Shield]

In 2009 I will finish all my plans for my sabbatical year, see my friends graduate with firsts and distinctions, pass this DoR thing on to an enthusiastic, determined and imaginative successor, wish the other sabbs the very best of luck as they take their next steps towards world domination, then get back into academia again and finish this degree I started in 2005. And also read Murder in Samarkand by Craig Murray, The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by Richard Dawkins, and What Terrorists Want by Louise Richardson.

Maybe.

[Freaker]

2009 will be the year I intend to move to China, for an unlimited amount of time and with little intention of coming back for longer in the near future. Hopefully that fill follow from graduating and finding a job - but hey, gotta look at the larger picture !

[orudge]

2009 is the year that I will graduate (I hope!), and start a job in the US. That's the plan, at least! I'm also hoping to, er, "leave my mark" on St Andrews in some appropriate manner, and make sure all our newer Ents members are suitably trained up for when us old gits leave this year. It'd probably be good if I were to get a bit fitter and lose a little bit of weight, too, I imagine.

First, though, dreaded exams to get through, and then a trip to California!

[the Empress]

Graduate (again) (hopefully), get a graduate job, obtain a relationship or buy a chinchilla . . . . . and travel to Mexico (the dream). To be bolder and more exciting (maybe).

[ct3012]

The year I: lose 2 stone; actually start doing work to get into and justify doing Honours; don't max out my overdraft (or at least as often); move in with my boyfriend and out of the parental hell that is home.

[Jono]

2009 will be the year in which I finish my dissertation, finish my degree, graduate, and then get the hell out of dodge. Principal Irvine is credited with saying "nobody leaves St Andrews until they have to." In spite of all the good times, and regardless of the bad, my time has come! My intention is to start a law degree. No doubt I'll return at some point to sue the Union for manifold health and safety violations.

[Garnet]

-Well I just got confirmed that i have a place on the edinburgh marathon, so get fit and go through with that.
- Improve my spanish
- practise the guitar more
- graduate with a 2:1, and have a plan for next year either going to japan or get into screen writing course
- make 2 short films for rogue productions
- be more reliable

[Hennessy]

2009 will be the year I:

+Get a bit beardy for a while just to see what it's like
+Officially go on an archaeological dig abroad
+Enjoy my motorcycle rather than get annoyed at it, and probably die coming off it at a ridiculously low speed that will make the council re-assess speed limits and piss everyone off.
+Attempt to have sex more on purpose rather than by accident
+Eat! I am underweight now and scrawny, need a bit more muscle mass aswell.
+Travel, travel anywhere and everywhere, far and near.
+Take better care of my money by a) Not spending it on fags and b) spending less of it on booze.
+Get an internship somewhere and see what drudgery awaits me in the "real" world.
+Show my enthusiasm for my chosen subjects a little more, no more hungover/sleepy lectures.

[bdw]

Go round South Africa.
Do up house.
Get 10k time down to 40 minutes.
Spend less time at work and more down the pub with mates.
Ensure the preceding point is not enabled by way of a P45.

[Telinar]

Get my dissertation finished and sent off to those organisations who are interested in my work, graduate, then figure out just what the hell to do next.

[ojk6]

In the Year 2009 I'd like to: Lose some weight, put in a bit more work, find somewhere suitable to live, pay a bit more attention to the people who really matter to me, make some ammends to people I've upset, see a bit more of bonny Scotland, leave my current job and have a little bit more fun! But then this is a world of surprises and you never know who or what is going to come your way!

[schmod]

[*]Graduate
[*]Get a Job
[*]Return to St Andrews for a few days

(Probably not in that order)