My friend just took a girl I like on a “formal” date. What do I do?

Wish them a hearty congratulations? Or, if you had already made your feelings clear to your friend, challenge them to a duel? (Ohwait, what year is it? I’m sorry, I was channeling an older wall.) You can suffer in silence, you can wish them well, or you can win the heart of your beloved. Those are pretty much the three choices, and they all depend on context. Go watch Gerard Depardieu in Cyrano de Bergerac & have a good cry if you need to. (O’Neill Library Circulation Desk: PQ2635 .O7 C92 2004)

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.