New Year’s resolutions can be used as short term or long term goals for people. They can be dreams people wish to follow or steps someone wants to accomplish.

Gabby Reese, a sports and exercise major, has set a year long goal to make 10,000 paper cranes by the end of 2024. She has also started to create one thousand for herself.

However, she鈥檚 been running into some small setbacks, in the form of two small cats. 

鈥淎fter I complete my goal of making a thousand of these paper cranes, I鈥檇 love to hang them up on my wall,鈥� she said. 鈥淏ut it鈥檚 a little hard with these guys, tearing every single one down.鈥�

Reese has taken to not only making paper cranes for herself, but also for others. She has begun to write good luck notes on them to hand them out to other students.

Reese鈥檚 brother came up with the idea and she has him to thank for this new hobby.

鈥淭his was initially my brother鈥檚 goal to make 10,000 paper cranes, but I thought that was absolutely insane to make 10,000 cranes all by yourself, so I decided to help,鈥� she said. 鈥淲hen he taught me how to make paper cranes at first, I wasn鈥檛 so great. But now, I think I鈥檓 a little better than him.鈥�