Eating healthier, living each day to its fullest, being happier, finding love, traveling the world, or cursing less—these are some of the New Year’s resolutions students are contemplating as Jan. 1 gets closer.

“Mine is to quit smoking,” Lesley Golphin, 22, sign language and business marketing major, said of her resolution. “I never had a New Year’s resolution before, so this is going to be my first one. The reason why I wanted to do it is because of my mom’s health. I know people can say I can stop right now, but I am not ready yet. The time between now and New Year’s will help me prepare myself because I don’t want to start cold turkey.”

The idea of starting the New Year doing something that makes them healthier is a common resolution for many students. Although Janae Griffin, psychology major, said that while she may not be interested in making a resolution to become healthier, she is interested in making a resolution to help her determine her goals for the coming year.

“My New Year’s resolution is to reset my goals,” Griffin said. “It makes me be more focused. I had myself focused on my goals at the beginning of the year, but throughout the year, you get swayed or distracted. New Year’s is always a good time to refocus. You can always start your goals anytime but it is always good to just sit down and focus on New Year’s.”

John Penuela, 19, psychology major, sees New Year’s resoultions as a time for growth and change. He said he finds that if he makes a resolution, he tends to keep it.

“It is a motivation for me to change,” he said about making New Year’s resolutions. “It is my commitment. It is something that people do yearly to change to themeselves for the better.”

“My New Year’s resolution is to have better time management, focus on my school and work and not waste time on useless things,” he said. “Last year, I promised myself to improve my grades and my grades are actually better now.”

While many students are looking ahead to New Year’s and coming up with resolutions to keep, others are taking a different approach and contemplating boycotting resolutions for 2013.

“I think it’s a social thing,” Nancy Le, English major, said about the concept of making New Year’s resolutions. “I think that if you are going to do something, you shouldn’t wait until the beginning of the year to do it.”

Although setting up goals for the New Year might be ideal for some students, other students would rather not set themselves up for failure, so they don’t come up with New Year’s resolutions.

“I tend to think practically, so I do not need to set up a New Year’s resolution that I would not really follow through with,” Hanh Nguyen, 19, international business major, said. “I don’t call mine a New Year’s resolution because I don’t really have to wait for the New Year to set up my goals.”