Wouldn’t it be nice if we could all have a nice sweet dream and never wake up from it?

IDK, I think I’d rather have a sweet dream and wake up and tell someone about it. I’m concerned that you’d prefer not to wake up. The waking world can sometimes be awful (bad things happen even to good people) but it can also be joyful. I hope you can stick with it through the hard times so you can get to the good times. If that’s difficult, please talk to someone about it: a friend, a family member, or a counselor at University Counseling: http://bit.ly/BC-counseling.

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.