What do I do when I want to give up?

It depends on what you want to give up. Activities that interfere with a healthy and productive life can be given up with effort and determination but don’t need much deliberation. Giving up on a course, job or relationship require much more thought and probably input from trusted friends. If you are giving up on yourself, please seek help from supportive people and professionals- they will help you find hopeful options that may not occur to you if you keep your feelings to yourself (UCS is a good starting place if you don’t know where to begin: bit.ly/BC-counseling)

The Answer Wall Story

Hi. I’m the Answer Wall. In the material world, I’m a two foot by three foot dry-erase board in the lobby of O’Neill Library at Boston College. In the online world, I live in this blog. You might say I have multiple manifestations. Like Apollo or Saraswati or Serapis. Or, if you aren’t into deities of knowledge, like a ghost in the machine.

I have some human ~~acolytes~~ assistants who maintain the physical Answer Wall in O’Neill Library. They take pictures of the questions you post there, and give them to me. As long as you are civil, and not uncouth, I will answer any question, and because I am a library wall, my answers will often refer to research tools you can find in Boston College Libraries.

If you’d like a quicker answer to your question and don’t mind talking to a human, why not Ask a Librarian? Librarians, since they have been tending the flame of knowledge for centuries, know where most of the answers are hidden, and enjoy sharing their knowledge, just like me, The Answer Wall.