Neuroscience junior Zach Ly said he felt his resolution was pretty common — working out and getting in shape.

But he said he’s been successful with his New Year’s resolution this year because he’s had friends and his girlfriend there to inspire him to keep going.

“I want to look good,” Ly said.

He said he thinks most people set goals for their New Year’s resolution that are hard to reach or keep up with throughout the whole year.

“Usually, I think a lot of people set unrealistic goals for themselves, so they just quit,” Ly said.

“I make lists every year,” marketing junior Marina Campbell said.“One of mine this year was to sleep better because I don’t get enough sleep. I’m still working on that.”

Campbell said she doesn’t make New Year’s resolutions, but instead makes a list of long-term goals for herself at the start of every semester. She said she feels like that’s a more realistic way of doing things and it keeps her successful.

“I work out a lot so I always see a big surge in the gyms around the beginning of the year,” Campbell said. “But it always dies down. I think a lot of people just get busy.”

“I make them every year, but now I don’t remember what my New Year’s resolution was,” Hospitality business sophomore Stephen Dall’Orso said. “I like the challenge, though, seeing if I can keep it throughout the year.”

Dall’Orso’s plight is a common one among resolution makers, oftentimes because of “life and other distractions,” Dall’Orso said.

Students often have a hard time retaining the grand goals they set at the beginning of the year.

“You get caught up in life,” Dall’Orso said. “New Year’s resolutions are important, but they’re usually not as important as everyday life.”

Supply chain management sophomore Nolan Russ said this is the first year he’s ever made a New Year’s resolution and he has a physical list of them at his dorm to keep himself on track.

“I’ve been mostly successful, I’d say,” Russ said. “I made so many that it’s hard to stay true to all of them, but they’re important reminders.”

Russ said he was inspired to start creating New Year’s resolutions because he heard some higher-up business owners created New Year’s resolutions for their company for that year, so it just fit with his major. Most of his also included going to bed earlier — one he shared with some other Spartans.