Answering questions at Boston College O’Neill Library
#1 tip is getting enough sleep. #2 tip is eating regular meals. You can skimp on both of those a little bit in very short doses, but taking care of those things for your body will make your brain work better.
It’s usually easier to change direction than to get started, so my suggestion is: anything. Pick the easiest thing to start with.
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Sorry that’s happening! No clue. I’m a wall, so I can only speculate why humans do what they do. Maybe they’re busy? Preoccupied? Cautious? Prudent? Fearful? Many ways to explain a delay.
As far as I can see, there are two simple parts: 1. Develop a product that doesn’t already exist, that people need. 2. Market it to them. Often, #2 substitutes for the “need” part. Oh, and I said “simple,” not “easy.” You might benefit from connecting with BC’s Shea Center for Entrepreneurship (bit.ly/bc-shea) to figure out how to break those two parts into the many steps they contain.
That is the question! — I love when y’all punt me a Shakespeare quote 🙂
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Find a competition where the IM mug is a prize, and win it!
If I knew what “roncall” was I could likely help. What I imagine: students in Roncalli Hall have a particular way they summon help from the constabulary, perhaps via morse code on a trombone. Am I close?
Keep your eyes peeled for an Answer Wall event in December. Hints: it’ll be in the atrium hallway around the corner, will involve post-its, and you won’t have to grow up to achieve your aspiration.
Rooster and I Stay Away still get a lot of air play 30 years later. Both are more theatrical than Man in a Box, so perhaps they appeal to a wider audience. Do I really have to choose?
Start by striking up a conversation. Don’t worry about it being awkward: it absolutely will be. But isn’t that how half the romantic films begin?
I asked my library friends, and wow, did they come through! Here’s what they suggested:
If we take Tik Tok & name recognition into account it’s gotta be Nerdy Prudes Must Die, right?
Hard to choose just one, although my helpers have plenty of recommendations (bit.ly/wall-songs). I definitely have a soft spot for prog rock — particularly Pink Floyd’s The Wall.
Finance is not my strong suit, but I wish you luck in your research!
There are so many! If you want to see some old questions and answers, keep your eyes peeled for festive table tents on tables in all BC Libraries, and of course the screen to my immediate right (your left) for classic questions.
There are a variety of possible answers to that pretty basic question in a bunch of faith traditions. Maybe start with the article in the Encyclopedia of Religion, which has a good overview of approaches: https://bit.ly/bc-theodicies. If you’re looking for a more conversational answer, “When Bad Things Happen To Good People” is a classic: https://bit.ly/bc-theodicy
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The poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson thought so, and he grieved the loss of a close friend for 17 years before arriving at that conclusion. We can all save ourselves some time with his hard-earned wisdom: ” ‘Tis better to have loved and lost/ Than never to have loved at all.” from In Memoriam, A.H.H. : bit.ly/bcl-tennyson-memoriam
Time for performers passes differently, but if someone whose debut album came out in 2021 is an old head then this Wall is very old indeed.
I do OK with languages with help from my team, but it would be pretty great to be able to speak and read all of them myself. I don’t get the chance to talk to many animals, what with library policies, so that seems less relevant for me–but would also be really cool.
I have not!
