How do you know what kind of life to lead? I don’t know what I want!

Sigh… humans have so many choices, it’s hard for me to say. My life choices were fairly constrained to being supportive to the floors above me. The late Father Himes of BC had the great wisdom to boil it down to 3 simple questions: “What brings you joy? What are you good at? And who does the world need you to be?” Here’s a short lecture by Himes: bit.ly/himes-3key

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.