Hey wall! I just want to say thank you for giving a safe space for students to voice their concerns and curiosities.

Hey wall! I just want to say thank you for giving a safe spae for students to voice their concerns and curiosities. It helps me feel like, despite what I often think I'm observing... — Hey wall! I just want to say thank you for giving a safe space for students to voice their concerns and curiosities. It helps me feel like, despite what I often think I’m observing…

...among our student body, that I'm not the only one dealing with mental/emotional/interpersonal issues. It makes graduating all the more bittersweet. I love everyone reading this! — …among our student body, that I’m not the only one dealing with mental/emotional/interpersonal issues. It makes graduating all the more bittersweet. I love everyone reading this! <3 senior

Thank you for the kind words. Knowing that others are concerned about the same or similar issues in their lives takes us out of ourselves and gives us a different perspective. The thought that someone else has worked through the same problem always helps–see, it is possible to survive and thrive! And it is good to know you are not alone; that friends and organizations on campus are available to assist. I don’t know what I would do without the support of my fellow walls … I hope you have a wonderful senior year and, if you can’t come back and visit me in person, you know you can keep up with The Answer Wall online at library.bc.edu/answerwall <3 <3 <3

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.