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Iman Janmohamed / The Ubyssey
A month into 2023 and it feels like it has been a year already! To celebrate the upcoming year of laugh and love, and mourn the past year of whatever the opposite of laugh and love is, Ubyssey blog put together a list of our ins and outs for the year.
Ins
- Travel-sized Twister
- Adding 30 minutes to your commute to avoid taking the 33
- Spending all day trying to complete a children's puzzle
- Voting (always)
- Having your full license
- Bagged salads
- Dry shampoo
- Being just like other girls
- Giving your friends alliterative nicknames (like Rizzler Russo, Bad News Bawaan, Jazzy Janmohamed, etc)
- Vitamin C and other supplements
- Buying a $7 latte because you deserve it
- Having nine Twitter followers
- Sudoku
- Baby food like smoothies and applesauce pouches
- Acquiring a SAD lamp
- Sunscreen
- Bluey the cartoon dog
- Florence Pugh
- Arts students in computer science
- Giving yourself an impulsive haircut during finals
- Celebrity bear (Grylls) encounters
- Bits
- Praxis
- Using buzzwords incorrectly
- Guy who thinks his foot is a dog
- Adopting a raccoon because cats are expensive
- Humming to yourself for serotonin
- Earmuffs
- Being a hater
- Dylan Mulvaney
- Debating if the dress is blue and black or white and gold
Outs
- Eras
- Finishing your round of antibiotics to not develop bacterial resistance or whatever
- Santa Ono (RIP)
- Deborah Buszard's shoes
- EVO drivers
- Sandals
- Alligators
- The spider living in my bathroom (it is dead)
- A single centimetre of snow
- Artificial Intelligence
- Elon Musk
- Loud roommates
- The SRC North construction
- Waiting in the Tim Horton's line
- Sneezing in your lecture so loudly that brain comes out of your nose
- Saying something in class when nobody asked
- YouTube, BeReal, Instagram, Snapchat
- Underwire bras
- Calling Blue Chip "Blue Chip Cookie Store"
- Wordle
- [Your major]
- Using Bing on Chrome on your Mac
- Eyebrows?
- The glare blue light glasses have when you take a photo
- Wearing contact lenses to your dodgeball game
- Tax evasion (sorry, Shakira)
- Not eating breakfast
Charlotte Alden, Jocelyn Baker, Nathan Bawaan, Selin Berktas, Aisha Chaudhry, Amanda Dekker, Kyla Flynn, Tova Gaster, Paloma Green, Spencer Izen, Iman Janmohamed, Anabella McElroy, Jessica Norn, Harry Sadleir and Sofia Wind contributed to this piece.