Do you know how the decision of staying here or going home feels like choosing between two cultures?

Like you’ll always leave part of your friends and community behind. Sometimes I feel selfish and other times I feel like I don’t belong anywhere……

You’re not being selfish – how would loving your friends and your communities be selfish? We are all struggling with issues of belonging and missing our people. Choosing where to shelter is not the same as chosing one community over another. Do stay in touch frequently with your friends from BC and from home to nurture your connection and let them know you’re ok and thinking of them.

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.