You will have spent 6 months having fun in Leuven and having barely succeeded in your exams, you will soon be packing to go back home. A new Erasmus flock will replace you. You take back home good memories you have gathered (at least when you were not blackout due to excessive alcohol consumption). You are going to miss Leuven and its days of irresponsibility. Next semester? Getting drunk too. The single difference? People in the pub will be speaking your language (does not apply to Dutch nationals).

Still enjoying life and its pleasures… (some of them at least). If you were to be compared to a hotel, then bed occupancy for you tackles the 100%. Next semester, you are going to focus on quality rather than quantity. Set your fantasies free and realize all your bondage, leather and other fetish dreams. As you are going back home too (you re an Erasmus after all) you are going to be able to enjoy again the sweet taste of local goods. !

We could not see through our contemplation of the stars any particular resolution for you. For you, life is a long and quiet river… A continuity. You didn’t even notice we were in 2009. If you were to try and visit wild and mysterious destinations, you would go as far as Kessel-Lo or Heverlee…

God doesn’t follow the Gregorian calendar, and neither do you. You despise those commercial manifestations in relation to Christmas and the new year. For you it’s no more than a commemoration of Christ’s birth or the beginning of the Hegire. Why don’t you go make a little walk through the Oudemarkt on a Thursday evening? They say some people found God in wine, and others say that the kiss of beautiful woman is a divine experience...

Faster, stronger, higher, further are your ambitions for this year; study wise of course. Your excessive occupation of the library will continue uninterrupted. Lets hope the librarian conspiratress for a putsch to throw you out. Your goal for the year: braking your bowling and golf records on the Wii you received for Christmas.

YSame old, same old. This year however, your mind turns business thinking. You move from a party-gore to a party organizer. Using your web of acquaintances and public relations, you aim for record attendance and the big cash. Champagne will be flowing this year and the juicy, sometimes scandalous, photos of you and your friends are to be found on Facebook. Please don’t un-tag yourself, these are really fun for the rest of us.

Your goal for this year: leave and move inside the ring of Leuven. Though you became the fittest among your friends thanks to your military-like daily training, you can’t stand anymore the fact that you can’t feel your nose, lips and ears for half an hour after your morning’s bicycle ride. Yet worse, the sight of your fingers and toes when they turn bluish. Welcome back to civilization! .

The stars are certainly your best source of advice for your first days in the city. All the signs promise you an unforgettable experience. Take a look around the city and never be shy to ask. There are plenty friendly people to help you. And yes it is not a shame to hold a map. Take a big one, show you are lost and help will come faster your way. Don’t dare forgeting to pay a visit to father Oblaten.

It’s a though start for the year. Exams to prepare and papers to correct. You are going to be even crueler in your correction this year… Red ink will flow extravagantly. Please keep your frustrations from home at home, and judge your students objectively. Yet another year of devotion and generous sharing of a knowledge gathered through the years awaits you. Students need your inspiration and that’s the way you (read: your ego) like it!

It’s not a season to plant weed man! Culture is at its worse and you are forced to buy your stuff though your financial resources are limited. For 2010, you hang on to your good spirit and to that everlasting smile decorating your face. The financial crisis of the last months will provide you with the perfect occasion to contest once again globalization, G-8 summits, wild capitalism and others concepts that don’t fit with your particular mottos and beliefs. After all, you need something to have fun when you are not high.

Due to the financial crisis and its aftermath, a massive flow from the other zodiac signs to yours took place the past year. Due to this repopulation, you have been removed from the Unesco list of protected species. 2010 resolutions are just similar to those of 2009: more money and success and a better health.