Hi, I’m the Answer Wall! I’ve been perched in the O’Neill Library lobby at Boston College since February 2017, except for a year in 2020 when I went fully online. Ask me a question by posting a post-it on me in O’Neill Library. I’ll answer within a day on weekdays. I snooze on the weekends, because answering questions is hard work!
Best place to take networking calls!!
how do I get him to want me?
Why does BC transport department supervisors allow BC bus drivers to idle empty BC buses for 20+ mins Monday-Friday in front of Conte Forum?
Best places to nap on campus :)
Are BC students charged a fee preemptively for stealing food from the dining hall?
Restaurants and businesses think about that kind of thing as a cost of doing business when they set prices. So no, in the sense that there isn’t a separate punitive line item for it. But yes.
Does the library still loan bikes?
Bike BC is taking the fall semester to replace their inventory of bikes and revamp the program. Bikes should be available for loan in the spring semester once we are through the worst of the winter weather.
Any book reco. to cry on?
If I am understanding this correctly, you are asking for books that made me cry. The list is long, but recently A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara got me right in the feels.
Why is the library so cold? Who can we ask to turn the AC off? AC in October is crazy
I’m sorry it’s chilly in here. In addition to the whole campus always having an awkward transition from cooling to heating in the fall, BC Libraries’ buildings have an added wrinkle: books like a fairly narrow range of temperature and (especially) humidity, and sometimes removing humidity means removing heat. That old stereotype of librarians in cardigans is true for a reason.
What to do if I hate my major as a senior to the point I can’t succeed in upper level classes?
I am so sorry to hear you hate your major. “Success” can mean a lot of things, but there is a lot of space between not going to class at all and getting 100% on everything. If you have talked to advising and made sure there wasn’t time to upgrade a minor to a major or go all in on spring semester to get enough classes to pivot majors…I highly recommend talking to someone in Counseling to unpack where you are and make a plan for what’s next. bit.ly/BC-counseling
What is your favorite animal?
Was just reading someone describe turtles as shy rocks that can swim, so I’m going to say turtles today. https://bit.ly/4eS9urd
Surely BC can pay for a hole puncher… I am formally requesting a new hole puncher for ONeil
I have alerted our colleagues, thank you!
You seem like an enneagram 5 to me. What type do you think you are? Im a 1 :)
That is very kind! I will need to read up on this topic but 5’s do sound very cool… “The Investigator” is something I can get on board with. Pun intended!
3R-5 computer not working :(
Thanks! I’ll notify the folks who make not-working computers work.
What is your favorite holding in the archive?
Is Northeastern better than BC and why is the answer yes? (Burn this heretic: response by anonymous)
👍🧑🦱 Gracias
de nada
Who should I vote for president?
Ajax or Odysseus?
I tend to prefer subtlety to raw power, so I’m in general an Odyssesus fan, but there is something to be said for Ajax’s reliability. Also, don’t sleep on Diomedes as a second-tier Greek hero. Check out my friend the Oxford Classical Dictionary for a quick summary of what each of them get up to in the myths that grew up around the Iliad.
Why am I sexy af?
How do I become a rock paper scissors savant??
Practice makes perfect! I believe the 10,000 hour rule would apply here. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell has some good ideas on this.