Is let verstandig om naar bed te gaan met een van myn beste vrienden? Ook al willen we geen serieuze relatie.

[Translation: Is it wise to go to bed with one of my best friends? Even though we don’t want a serious relationship.]

There are definitely reasons why it might be inadvisable – you’ll need to think carefully about whether the (friends with) benefits outweigh the risk. Risks might include losing your friendship and the unlikely to be enforced but real item 11.8 in the BC Student Code of Conduct: “incidents of sexual intercourse outside the bonds of matrimony may be referred to the Student Conduct System.”

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.