Career – The Answer Wall

I’m very interested in psychology and yet, I’m not sure if I have the patience to be a therapist, I do like working with children so I was thinking like school guidance counsellor or educational therapist, what saith you o’ majestic board of dazzling white?

The BC Career Center has a very thorough guide (bit.ly/BCPsycCareers) about ways you could follow your interest in psychology (and they point to other great resources like the APA website). I’d also recommend setting up a meeting with the Career Center (bit.ly/BC-career) to chat about options, and talking to faculty from the Psychology Dept, the Lynch School, and the School of Social Work.

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.