Category: Random

Yes! I have faith in you. Boston is a great post-college city. Your first job may not be perfect, but you’ll learn a lot about yourself.

Well, first you have to learn how to transform into a pile of cinder blocks and some mortar. Then you have to listen and learn from everyone that walks by you for about 34 years. And then, if you work really hard, you can begin to communicate with humans via post-it.

Everyone has different reactions to it, but yes, it does work for lots of people. It also can make a big difference who your counselor is and whether you get along with them–finding the right one can be tough, but it’s worth it if you can. If you’re getting good results in other ways, that’s excellent and I hope it continues.

That will depend in exactly what kind of deals you can get, but it roughly looks like cheap vodka is your best bet. A good listing of alcoholic beverage by cost per oz of pure alcohol is here: http://bit.ly/cheapBooze.
There is a tiny little voice in the back of my….well I don’t have a head or a brain, but my fiberglass insulation, that compels me to remind you to drink responsibly. Social drinking can be fun with friends, but alcohol poisoning isn’t.

Pretty much all of the modern Internet as we think of it is built on the TCP transport layer protocol. SMTP is an application layer protocol (email) that uses the TCP protocol to push information around the world. Other application layers include HTTP (webpages), FTP (direct file transfer), and DNS (like the phonebook of the Internet). All of these different types of request travel over TCP because it’s what everyone agreed upon. For more information on the all the different layers communication software that make up the Internet see http://bit.ly/InternetProtocol

Imposter syndrome can be hard. But the mere fact that you feel that way is good – it means you know you have more to learn. The much worse situation for everyone is when someone thinks they know everything. I assure you that everyone else is pretty much just making it up as well.
I’m sorry that you feel like BC undermines your value. The people that work here want the students to feel confident in their abilities – both as students and after they graduate. If there are particular instances when some one or some thing is making you feel small, you should try to to either confront those situations or remove yourself from them to the extent possible. If they become overwhelming or you’re not sure where to go, check out BC’s counseling services for some ideas. bit.ly/BC-counseling

You pass butter.

 

That’s a really bad idea, though there is a funny Friends episode on that theme (S1:E14). Seriously though. There’s a variation of “treat others the way you want to be treated” in almost every religious tradition for pretty good reasons. And pragmatically, if you’re hoping to date one of the parties, consider whether you’d expect that to last if it worked. Peace also to you.

It’s sad and unjust, but the good things of this world are not evenly distributed, whether they are smarts, or wealth, or looks, or clean water. Being smart is the product of so many factors; smart student may have genetics, early childhood opportunities, and maybe even studying a lot to thank for it. (I’ve removed the name of your brilliant fellow student to maintain privacy.)

Disambiguate, please. Do you mean you want to understand (a) how to get people to stop talking, or (b) why anybody would prefer being silent to talking? (a): I recommend moving to a quiet area. Humans are social creatures. If you are in a quiet area, suggest that they move or be quiet. (b): Quiet allows for reflection & concentration; though humans are social creatures, they also need time away from sociability, in places such as libraries.

With both patience and effort. The start of love is is pure luck. You never know who you’re going to find to love and love you back. BUT, as with so many other things where you need a bit of luck, those that work hard to make their own luck are more likely to find it. So, find a group of people doing things you like to do (a hobby-in-common is helpful), maybe download some dating apps, get out there and take some risks. You never know where you’ll find love.

Because.

Typically speaking, making a horcrux out of a human is a bad idea. Humans are incredibly apt to being killed/destroyed, and are thus poor objects for use as horcruxes. Nevertheless, being a human (or animal) horcrux is possible, so we must ask: do you have any reason to believe you are one? I cannot prove a counterfactual, but I can suggest that unless you’re very important to someone that has committed murder, and would have been able to then cast the appropriate spell to make you a horcrux, it’s highly unlikely that you’re a horcrux. Remember, Harry is not a normal horcrux – he is a pseudo-horcrux; an accidental vessel for a slice of Voldemort’s soul only possible because Voldemort had already torn his soul so many times to make it unstable. It would be nearly impossible that 2 wizards in the same century did the same.

As a driver or as a passenger? Either way the answer is that it will be very difficult if you don’t already have one. Drivers especially make so many trips that the chances of keeping a perfect rating over and over again becomes extremely small. As a passenger, it’s all about respecting the driver and their car. Have a profile pic that looks like you, be ready to go when the driver gets there, don’t slam doors, don’t eat or drink food in the car, don’t track mud in the car. If the driver wants to talk, then talk; if they don’t, then don’t. Being a 5.0 passenger is all about being empathetic to each other, which is good advice generally I think.

It’s true that if everyone behaved with integrity it wouldn’t be needed. Same problem with the legal system, actually. But since you can’t rely on that to be 100% true, it’s useful to have independent professionals checking the work of everyone according to the same rules. That way every company doesn’t have to individually do all the same work to check on its partners and competitors, and regulators can use it as a baseline also.

“On Earth, gold is found in ores in rock formed from the Precambrian time onward. It most often occurs as a native metal, typically in a metal solid solution with silver. Native gold occurs as very small to microscopic particles embedded in rock…” (Thanks Wikipedia!) Massachusetts doesn’t have much gold, but you can find some very fine flecks in the rivers of western Mass. Check out bit.ly/MassGold for more info.

The wall is thrilled to say, we do! O’Neill has 5 SuperDrives available for loan at the 3rd Floor Circulation Desk. They can be borrowed for 4 hours at a time.