Editors’ Note: If you need tips on sticking to resolutions (serious ones), see Ellie Usdin’s How-To: Nailing New Year’s: Five Tips on Making (and Sticking) to New Year’s Resolutions
In case you missed the fireworks, millions of people in diapers in Times Square and the new crowds in the gym, we are officially in 2025!
And if you didn’t know, all the emails flooding your inbox with new year, new us puns should clear that up.
2025 brings a new president, (the same as 2017); a new Super Bowl winner (most likely the same as last year, and the year before that); and (most likely) an Emmys Sweep by “The Bear” (the same as last year, and, you get the idea…)
But when it comes to things new and fresh, look no further than Fieldston’s 200 Girls bathroom…
Maybe not.
Some things we can predict, some we can’t. Some things we can control, some we can’t.
What we can predict, however, are the dependable Fieldston Community’s New Year’s Resolutions. Like clockwork, they appear in our notes app in January and disappear to the depths by March.
Serious and satirical, new and niche or old and consistent: community members shared their hopes, whims and fears for the New Year.
Some bravely aimed for a healthy “clean girl aesthetic” year.
“I want to be more confident,” said Stella Brothers (Form V), who plans to utilize daily affirmations.
Saskia Sommer (Form V), also uses daily affirmations, specifically on the bus in the morning. She said, “I want to go through life with joy and positivity,” she said.
Knowing Sommer, I am positive she’ll succeed.
Bret Lefkowitz (Form V) and Jeremy Walker (Form V), the dynamic duo known as “Bret and Jeremy” plan to procrastinate less and eat healthier. Walker recommends grilled chicken, asparagus and brown rice as a nutritious dinner. Although, Christmas leftovers work too.
Not many, (in fact, very few) students remain as dedicated to the craft and artistry of resolutions as Ellie Usdin (Form VI). Happiness charts, bullet journals, reflections and scrapbooking: if you can think of it, Usdin’s done it. She said simply, “My life is a New Year’s resolution.”
Other students, in terms of entertainment, said they needed to be more or less entertained, depending on who you asked. Nevertheless, all agreed their attention spans were “cooked.”
“I want to watch more movies and spend less time on Instagram reels,” said Miranda Gluck (Form VI). In her spare time (aside from watching movie clips on Instagram reels), Gluck also wants to bake more, specifically macaroons.
Ava Clark (Form VI), said that besides being “a baddie” she plans to listen to a lot of Lana Del Rey. When asked which album, she gave the only correct answer: “Norman F**king Rockwell.”
Not so fast! There are still students who read books!
Amelia Citron (Form VI) wants to finish the books she starts in the new year. “I’m in the middle of a bunch,” she said. “Right now, I’m about to finish ‘The Bell Jar’ by Sylvia Plath.” Citron highly recommends: “It’s an immersive story. You forget who you are while reading,” she said.
Some say the same about the Fieldston News.
One cafeteria table, brimming with protein, focused on the most infamous resolution of all: exercise. Davis Williams (Form VI) wants to bench 250lbs, which his friend Will Saunders (Form VI) quickly topped by saying his enthusiastic goal of 355lb. Jaylin Francis (Form VI), a bonafide track star, simply wants “to run faster.”
And yet, not all Fieldston students created resolutions. Some “forgot,” while others actually vehemently oppose the tradition. “I don’t believe in them,” said Han Lane (Form V). “They’re made to be broken and no one actually does them.”
True or false? Let’s check back in next year (next week)
