Diary of a Gen Z Student: It feels a bit pathetic that less time on my phone should be a resolution

I mean, social media is a bit bizarre. How do we manage to be so invested in the lives of people we hardly know? Or don’t know at all, for that matter.

Jane Cowan is a student in Trinity College Dublin, where she is in her second year, studying English.

My dad always tells me this story about when he first started secondary school. He describes how he had expected the lads to take up smoking in first year.

To his surprise, by the age of 12 or 13, a few of them made it a new year’s resolution to quit.