Why is this school so damn hard [Response: This place blows]

A synonym for hard is challenging. The more you’re challenged, the more you learn. But I hear you: there are certainly moments when challenges are… challenging. As to whether it blows… circumstances anywhere can sometimes become genuinely terrible. I hope you have some folks you can vent with. Best of luck on the final push through a stressful time in the semester! If you need a boost in any of your classes, CFLC tutors are ready to help until they close on May 2. bit.ly/BC-connors

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.