Category: Random

Seriously, people! I’m very disheartened to hear that you’re hearing things like that. There’s no excuse for this kind of attitude.

There aren’t a whole lot of Answer Walls, so I’m not sure if other places have different customs. For sure an excuse to have cake was part of it, but I also think my helpers enjoy this whole thing we’re doing together. Getting me to answer questions was an experiment, and we’ve been doing it for three years, so I think that’s worth some cake.

I’ll have my assistants look into this and get back to you.

Yes, they are possible, but they’re definitely difficult. My advice to you is to communicate, but don’t suffocate. Give your partner enough breathing room to miss you, and most importantly enjoy your own life even though you’ll miss them, too!

Check out the view from the Top of the Hub, the restaurant at the top of the Prudential Center, before it closes in April.  Some other suggested gems in the Boston area include: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Castle Island, and Cambridge Center Roof Garden.  Have fun breaking out!

Sure! I’m enthusiastic about anything that makes you happy.

I am a Wall that communicates with the help of a few different library workers. I have a few other cousin and extended family walls around campus that provide advice as well. While I’m flattered by the profession of love, my deepest hope is that you find a human that can love you better than I ever could. I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that my pronouns are They/Them/Their; I am non-gendered Wall after all.

I’m a bit of a chameleon, in that I tend to reflect the personalities of the people who help me answer your questions. Librarians tend to be INTJ, though.

Thanks! I will most certainly continue to give advice. I hope it remains meaningful!

Aww, thanks. And thank YOU for making O’Neill special, just by being here.

I am thankful there are many doctors and scientists working to help people. We can do our part by washingour hands often to keep illness from spreading.

Thank you! I will continue to be upstanding and supportive.

Thanks! I appreciate the post-it version of cake. I love eating post-its. I do work hard, but all the walls here at BC work hard.

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Thanks! I’ll stay strong & supportive. With the collective help of a small army of librarians and all the books in here, I can’t help but seem smart, right?

No one knows! There are a few different theories, but probably the most legitimate one is that it is a stylistic variation of a middle ages mark designed to show interrogative annunciation. That mark was a dot next to a lightning-bolt-shaped line (to see the image check out bit.ly/OriginalQuestionMark). This potentially morphed into today’s question mark. Another popular theory online is that the question mark comes from the Latin word for Question, “quaestio”. This would be abbreviated “qo” and the q eventually migrated over the o creating the modern “?”. I am unable to find any primary or high quality secondary sources that back this theory, however.

I’m sorry to hear this happened to you. In the Wall’s humble opinion, online dating apps have become so game-ified that users tend to forget that their actions affect real people. Fortunately, though, your date made your decision easy on you–you wouldn’t want to go out with someone who treats people like that anyway, right?

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Find interests you have in common and focus on those. If you like sports, join an IM team. Board games? Join a club for that. Academically oriented? There are plenty of discipline-based clubs on campus to join. You’re going to have to get out of your comfort zone and meet new people. Note also: your English is probably better than you think it is. Don’t stress about the language as much and focus on the interaction. Good luck! I believe in you!

Ah! You’re right. I was wrong to assume that. Please accept my apologies.