I generally don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions, or that eating black-eyed peas gives you good luck, or that the New Year is a fresh start – a blank slate. Over the past few months my perspective has changed.  Upon embracing the promise of the New Year and new semester, I made several resolutions, so to say, ultimately not thinking that I could keep up with them. One of them is running on a daily basis. I seem to have done that once. For only 20 minutes. Not what I call success.

But when it comes to my goals for The Prairie, I have only seen positive and great strides over the past few weeks. We have an excellent staff who wears the passion for journalism on their sleeves and it shows in their work and dedication to the paper. We have successfully put out the first issue of the semester, and I only have high hopes moving forward. We have a lot of exciting new changes in the works, one of which being the staff blog. I have started this so that the staff could bring you interesting takes on campus and college life. I look forward to the creative process each staff member will endure to provide great and interesting content to our readers. It is a form of writing that will require both a journalistic style, but also the personal touch of each writer.

So in the spirit of New Year’s resolutions and eating black-eyed peas, I hope each of you stay tuned each week to the newest edition to the online world of The Prairie and enjoy reading our staff blog.