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We started off the last seconds of 2016 saying goodbye to it. It was a below-average year, and I knew not one person who was going to miss it. And just seeing a popular meme like roll safe appear so early made me feel better about this li'l blue marble.

What happened? Do I even need to mention all that has happened? So much has occurred, I don't think that I have even heard half of it.
What will you remeber about 2017 most of all? Predictions?

Sorry to mention the triggering cheeto but it was the first year with Donald Trump as president, a guy who had no previous experience in politics (among other things) and its not like the problems and political turmoil of 2016 where going to magically vanish (add both together and you know) honestly we just put our expectations a little too high. Still its not all bad! ISIS is finally being defeated its something!

Edit: There is also all the sexual assault allegations but while they are depressing it means that people are finally coming out to talk about this things which is good. The notorious cyberbullying in this year has been shameful though but it really wasn't better in 2016 either.

Explosive US economy, cryptocurrnecy explosion which have tripled what I invested in, radical and incredible technological advancement in eco-friendly energy and industries, I have a new, exciting, creative job after a decade of underemployment, engagement to my girlfriend of 5 years…

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…the US considers Jewrusalem the capitol of Israel…

2017's been a great year.

Chester Bennington and Net Neutrality are both dead on the same year.
Yeah, that's great.

I'm normally not a mercy-whore, but screw it: this year, I lost my job, had another job opportunity go up in smoke, went through a hurricane, drove my mother to the ER twice, had a heart catheterization, and my dog died a week before Christmas. Fuck 2017 and fuck anybody who liked it.

My God. I sincerely hope that you can recover in 2018. God bless you.

now that's beyond rough, my condolences to you

All I know about this site in the past year is anime girls, and that's how it's going to be forever from now on, isn't it?

2017 for me wasn't spectacular, but it wasn't terrible either. Still, I'm very thankful that it wasn't worse. Several people close to me have lost a lot this year.

Wasn't the best year but it wasn't bad.

This year was a fucking rollercoaster. Got a good SAT score, got a gf, got a job. But on the other hand I got shitty grades (my first ever C), did terribly on my finals and developed (but got over) massive anxiety like halfway through the year. I also found a great group of friends but they introduced me to alcohol which is probably a bad thing. And this is just counting the important stuff.
2017 has had a bigger impact on my life than any other year, but I'm still yet to find out whether the impact is for the better or for the worse. 2018 I'm counting on you.

I managed to get a job at a restaurant, but my parents have become distant. They don't even want to be in view of each other for who knows how long. 2017 has been a long marathon of family drama.

some college bureaucrats decided to be very generous and give me a load of grant money to move to the land of my freeaboo dreams, America.

Americans are ridiculously nice. My group of friends has doubled in size compared to a year ago. That has its own host of problems but nothing that can't be managed.

I made a few grand riding the cryptocurrency bubble. I've mostly cashed out now. Hopefully I don't regret it.

The main downside is that I haven't changed myself as much as I'd liked. I'm still conceited as hell which doesn't jive well with the fact that I now go to a boutique nescac college and not one of its ivy league rivals. I'm still more materialistic than I probably should be, which might lead me down some corporate career path I'll end up regretting. It's something that requires more attention than I've given it.

2017 has been a great year, maybe even the best I've ever had. But there's still a lot of work to be done.

We still have roughly 72 hours for a fair amount of celebrities to drop dead so 2017 is "THE WORST YEAR EVER!!!" like 2016. 'Cause y'know, Hollywood is such a big deal and all and everyone cared more for people they've never met over their own accomplishments or grievances they faced.

Bought a car and made promotion, so consider me satisfied.

I recently discovered Muffin discovered booze and women this year, so 2018 is promising to be exciting!

oh, please. If there's anyone who can make alcohol boring, it's muffinlicious.

i finally paid off my car

I hear about all this success and become inspired , but I realize that I am still in highschool.

It's about the combination. I'm hoping for some bad decisions.

It was…trying. Apart from the world continuously fucking up, I lost a lot this year too. My grandmother's friend who was really sweet to my family, a neighbor I loved moved away, these asshole neighbors of ours destroyed a 100+ year old tree.
The worst loss was a dear friend of mine. She was 21, and died of complications due to cystic fibrosis. She's the one who made my avatar, if you want to take a look. Oh, and my college was this close to burning down due to one of the big SoCal fires.

On the brighter side, both my Mom and I got jobs, my brother got accepted into a higher level music course at his college, and my boyfriend and I celebrated three years, and he got into nursing school.

So…yeah, 2017 was tough

My year in general was………….Mixed to good in general, in my life was very mixed, in the good side i visit my sister in the States (specially San Francisco) and was very nice to visit her, I could meet and get some things that I wanted there and the city was nice at all, i was able to pass my class again in my animation career in college, and i will have plans for a job in this field.
On the bad side, my parents had a very mixed relation, sometimes they argue, especially my dad, and i argued with him too, sometimes he was normal and friendly and other was furious and also my family was very split with political affairs also. In my college i was very anxious about my grades and my work in general in this year, i maked the mistake sometimes to work my projects in the last minute rushed, sometimes for silly confidence or procrastination and others for anxiety to work, and some of the grades were not that great in the first stints and fighted to this to be high. My relation with my old friends of the first years in my college was very distant and more that they are more busy with their works now than ever and i didnt have to much relation with the new peers, sometimes were loud others not but a all, some were more friendly with me hopefully. My anxiety was very high in this year i suffered with procrastination, not only in studies as i say but with other things i dont have time now for watch or play things that i like as i m bus with other things (like see things in internet and leave them on another ocassion). And busy with other things of clean my house.
This year as very difficult as the last year to the world in general (with Trump shenaningans, the polarization of politics, the rise of extremism, the discovering of sexual haresement in entertainment, etc), was very difficult in my country with an horrible flood that affected all the coast of my country, the political polarization that happened in the society and also the political turmoil with corruption scandals (that even the president was involved), neverthless there were good things like my country after 35 years they classified to the world cup, was a great thing in a very difficult year like one. Hopefully that this year will be great or nice, although is dubious in this situation now, but only time will tell.

ran a solo exhibition. curated 2 others.

Honestly, this year's been pretty unremarkable for me. IDK, i can't really think of anything interesting that personally happened to me. But that's usually how it goes every year. I don't really do much, and much doesn't really happen to me, but im content with that.

As for what i think of the rest of the world, the political and social climate? Its not as bad as it was in 2016, but things could definitely be much much better

This year was boring for me. Thank you internet for making me worry about stuff i normally would have never cared about.