How do I make friends at work after grad?

College is a great environment for making friends: lots of people with similar life experiences all jumbled together working on a big thing, and bonding over the stress of it. After college, you’ll have to work at it a little harder. Find the people who are interested in what you’re interested in and hang out with them. Invite people for drinks. Don’t get discouraged if it gets harder to schedule, because people will be busier as you get older. And if you can recreate the conditions of sentence 1, or some of them, you’ll always have the chance to make more life-long friends. But, simply, take the first step.

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.