By: Naomi Spence, Staff Writer

She sits and stares at her paper as she tries to think why the date she wrote on her paper looks wrong. The year, she remembers. It’s that time of year again when lots of people suffer from minimal cases of year block, a condition that causes a person to forget the year and accidentally start off writing a different year. It is one of the many issues that people face at the beginning of the year. Another relatively common one is keeping resolutions.

“Sometimes I still think its 2009,”says Kelsey Portwine, a Sophomore at Marion. Kelsey’s resolution for the New Year is doing better in school, “ I want to start doing better in school and a new quarter is coming up so hopefully I get to start off on a clean slate.”

Lots of people make resolutions in the New Year for different reasons but they aren’t always easy to keep. “ I think a lot of people make resolutions that they forget about or don’t end up doing because the goals they set are so hard they’re just setting up to fail like losing 50 pounds.”

Another reason people don’t keep their resolutions is because they start off too strong and burnout before they finish. “It only last about two weeks, ” Kelsey says, “People always say I’ll probably do it next Monday and then they never do.”

She looks at her grades and thinks about her resolutions, this year she is going to get it right.