We asked and you delivered: Students at King’s share their 2025 New Year’s resolutions

This year saw everything, from Molly-Mae and Tommy’s break up, to the surprise songs you really wanted to hear not being played at the Eras Tour.

Of course, you can’t go into the new year without creating a whole set of resolutions which you’ll rarely ever stick to. However, it’s nice to have something to motivate you and feed into your delusion that you’re indeed becoming a better person.

Before we start seeing everyone’s “new year, new me” posts, or hearing about the ground-breaking things they learnt in 2024, it’s time to find out what students at King’s hope to achieve in 2025.

So, The King’s Tab took to Instagram to ask students for their New Year’s resolutions and, well – they are interesting, to say the least.

‘Finish my goddamn thesis’

I thank my lucky stars that I am not in my final year of university yet. The thought of having to live and breathe your dissertation sounds like hell. I think it’s time to get those crystals out and start manifesting. But on a positive note: you’ve got this!

‘Actually do the lessons I miss’

I don’t even want to think about the amount of catch up work that needs to be done. This is something for my 2025 self to worry about x

‘Start going to my 9ams’

This (combined with doing readings and participating in seminars) is a resolution that we have promised ourselves from the beginning. I can count on two hands the amount of times that I’ve promised myself that I’ll make it to my 9ams, and I can count on just one finger the amount of times that this has actually been put into practice.

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Maybe 2025 will be the year that we put our tuition fee to good use?

‘Reading a book per month’

Or just anything that isn’t course related for once.

My pre-uni self would read so much more than I do now. I’ve got a mountain of books just waiting to be read, but it feels physically impossible to read when you have what feels like 17 seconds of free time at uni.

‘Protect my peace’

2025 is going to be the year for you and only for you, I can feel it.

‘Wake up before lunchtime’

It takes a serious amount of willpower to part ways with the comfort of your bed and start to face reality, especially after a night out. But a little goes a long way.

‘Get some sleep’

Uni students and sleep just don’t go hand in hand – almost like you and your situationship. Both are complicated and never end up working out.

‘Spend less money on a night out’

Good luck with this one. You do study in London, after all.

‘Do 10k steps a day’

Girl, all you need for this one is to walk across Waterloo Bridge and you’ll already have a step count higher than the price of a house in London.

‘Eat healthy’

It’s a known fact that a uni student’s diet consists of Maccies and £3 Tesco ready meals. But honestly, what did we expect? It’s not as if we are going to be cooking up a storm like Gordon Ramsay after a seminar that ended at 6:30pm. It’s also not our fault that avocados are so expensive.

Perhaps it may be time to steal your mum’s beloved Jamie Oliver cookbook, and start eating something other than pesto pasta, though.

‘To stop spending all my money on Blank Street matcha’

I relate to this one on a spiritual level. I think it’s fair to say that we will all be applying for a higher maintenance loan in order to afford the daily Blank Street.

‘Get my driving licence’

If there’s one thing that 2024 has taught me it’s that I’m tired of having to beg people for lifts and pay TFL prices. I have to admit this has been one of my new year’s resolutions for the past two years, so at the rate we’re going at I will probably be old and grey by the time I pass.

Whether these resolutions will actually hold is questionable. We’ll probably get to the second week of January, all collectively give up, and hope that in 2026 we will miraculously achieve our goals. Have a happy New Year people!