It's the new year! For us students, this means we get a vacation, with finals looming almost as soon as school restarts. So we bring in the new year happily, and cheerfully procrastinate studying for another week or two. Because the new year is basically in the middle of our school year, I feel as though its another excuse for vacation, which I don't object to at all, but is hardly anything more than another "holiday" to add to the season. But for us, I feel as if we aren't able to "start over" like most other people out of school. We go back to where we left off in school, and resolutions typically don't last longer than a month or two.
But this year is different. It's twenty-ten-- a new decade. When the last decade started, we were 7 or 8-- old enough to remember the excitement, but too young to really acknowledge such a passage. Looking back, I realize this has been a huge decade for me, and the rest of my classmates. We have witnessed 9/11, new technological advances, the election of Barack Obama, Harry Potter movies, and literally countless other demarkations and milestones. So, what will you remember?
Sarah Goomar also has a really interesting blog about naming the decade, check it out here
Wikipedia has a few examples of names that are being tossed around (the same link Gooms has)
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