Move over, Nostradamus; it’s time for me to step in and tell everyone the truth about the future. I may not be an astrologer, but I was a biology major for one semester. This makes me absolutely qualified to tell you the 24 things that I am positive will occur in the year 2024. I can assure you that all of these events will happen this calendar year.
- Someone will trip and turn around to see if anyone saw them.
- Oppenheimer will win Best Picture at the Oscars.
- They will revive Walt Disney’s frozen body.
- A volcano will erupt underwater, and nobody will know.
- Shohei Ohtani will be in a hitting slump for the first half of the season, causing the Dodgers to question everything.
- Scientists will discover life on another planet, but the life is actually just birds that flew into space.
- A girl’s mom will ask, “Are you really going to wear that out?”
- Taylor Swift will release both Reputation (Taylor’s Version) and Taylor Swift (Taylor’s Version).
- Elon Musk will buy popular apps and rename them letters of the alphabet until he collects all 26 letters, like Infinity Stones.
- Students will continue to apply to, get into, go to and graduate from Villanova.
- Side parts will come back in style.
- The United States will combine Virginia and West Virginia into one Mega-Virginia.
- A student will walk out of an exam saying, “I definitely failed,” before finding out that they actually got a B+.
- Villanova will remove all its printers, and professors will no longer be able to make their students print.
- Suki Waterhouse and Robert Pattinson will name their baby Renesmee.
- Someone will get to a restaurant before the rush and say, “We got here right in time.”
- Usher will bring Lil Jon and Ludacris out at the Super Bowl Halftime Show to sing “Yeah.”
- Someone will come up with the cure for a disease in a dream and win a Nobel Prize.
- The Super Bowl MVP will say, “I’m going to Disney World.”
- Grey’s Anatomy will get renewed for its 21st season.
- All police horses in New York City will revolt and take over.
- Someone will say a joke and then their friend will say it louder. All their friends will only laugh at the second person, leaving the first joke teller to feel dejected and isolated.
- The United States will win gold in Gymnastics, Swimming and Track and Field at the Summer Olympics.
- Villanova will let students use ChatGPT to come up with jokes to make their professors laugh. If the professor laughs, the student gets an A+ for the semester.
There you have it. All 24 of those events will occur with absolute certainty. I know this for a fact. Have a great 2024 and do not be freaked out when it turns out that I was right.