Hi Wall, do you ever feel just so stressed and confused in your life that you don’t know what you’re doing anymore?

I’m in medical school during fine, but I feel so stressed all the time, I don’t enjoy anything

Times are tough, and med school is no picnic, especially if you’re attending remotely. I’m sorry you feel so stressed and confused. Yes, I do feel like that from time to time. I hope it’s helpful to know that feelings like that are temporary. Here’s a helpful twitter thread by a crisis doctor about hitting limits: http://bit.ly/6-month-wall. Wherever you’re at med school, I’m sure they have a counseling center. Use it. And talk to friends and family to get grounded. If there’s a way to get together with other med students, even if it’s zoom dinners, do that, too. Connections with other people are vital.

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.