How do you practice self-discipline and maintain balance in your life? ❤️

Everyone needs to take breaks from being on their A-game. But how many and how long? It’s a matter of what kind of actions are necessary to achieve your ambitions, and how reasonable your ambitions are. I recommend the career office (bit.ly/BC-career), the academic counseling folks at the CFLC (bit.ly/BC-connors), and peer wellness coaches at the Center for Student Wellness (https://bit.ly/BC-wellness-coach) as starting points for grounding your balance and discipline in your goals.

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.