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I recommend speaking to as many people in that area as you can: IOW, professors of psychology and neuroscience at BC and beyond, to ask what they did. Don’t be afraid of cold-calling (or emailing), but be sure to personalize them in some way: speak about their specializations & your interest in them. It’s probably somewhat akin to sending early-career fiction manuscripts for publication; one writer said “you’ve sent almost enough when you can wallpaper a room with rejections.” I’d also talk to the career center: bit.ly/BC-career.

There’s a reason they call it “sophomore slump”! I hope your junior year is all you want it to be.

Partly what you want it to be, with varying input (helpful or harmful) from other sources – people, the earth itself, a higher power… I can almost assure you it will be not exactly as you imagine it, and that along the way there will be highs and lows you can’t predict right now.

Try as much as you can to think of them as a potential friend, not a potential date. How would you approach a potential friend?

Try this method… bit.ly/How2Rick

My library helpers have a lot of ice cream ideas, as well as date ideas. Check them out!

Ice Cream:

• J.P. Licks
• New City in Cambridge (amazing flavors like Baklava! & Vegan options))
• Toscanini’s Ice Cream in Cambridge
• Scoop N’ Scootery. There’s one in Brighton center and another in Allston– they have huge portions which make sharing easy if you want!
• Ron’s Ice Cream (Hyde Park and Dedham)
• Honeycomb Creamery. Lots of cool flavors and plenty of vegan options.
• Honestly, White Mountain Creamery on Comm Ave is great and is walking distance from campus. But, if you want to venture out, try Toscanini’s in Cambridge. Scoop and Scootery is also great for late night ice cream delivery … they have locations in Brighton, Allston, and Arlington. Cabot’s in Newton is hard to beat for old-school diner ambience, and they have great burgers too.
• Caffe Vittoria (North End)

Date Ideas:

• Beacon Hill book store – cool bookstore + great cafe downstairs
• Painting pottery at The Clayroom in Brookline
• Thursday night at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
  • The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (free with your BC id anyways) does Free First Thursdays. Not only is it then free to everyone, but they’re open until 9pm on those days, so you have extra time to see some art and/or hang out in the garden there
• Cooking class at Shiso Kitchen
• If you can get to the deCordova Sculpture Park, it is really fun! You could combine it with a walk around Walden Pond
• Go to a museum! BC students get free admission to the Boston MFA and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Take advantage of it! 🙂
• ramen at Ganko Ittetsu => movie at Coolidge
• Swan boat ride in the Public Gardens
• Live music at the Lizard Lounge

Discounted Cash Flow? Department of Children & Families? Dyneema Composit Fabric? If you mean the valuation method, here’s the formula: bit.ly/invest-o-dcf

Yes you are! That is such a wonderful message to share with the world.

Someone on the less wise end of the spectrum saying “I just do whatever I feel like” might, without thinking, do something that harms themselves or others & regret it. Someone on the wise end of the spectrum saying the same thing might have more sensible possibilities in mind after years of mindful experience & observation. So a statement that appears to be identical in two cases could have two entirely unrelated meanings with very different assumptions and outcomes.

Procrastination often stems from a feeling of being overwhelmed by a task. You might try two things on your own: 1. break the task into smaller tasks. “Write the Paper” is not what belongs on your to-do list. Break it into a dozen steps. 2. Tell your inner critic–the unhelpful one–you don’t need their input right now, you’ll do fine on this task. So what if it’s not the Mona Lisa? It doesn’t have to be a masterpiece, it just has to be done. For help with task management, get an appointment at the CFLC for academic coaching: bit.ly/BC-connors

Diamond Dogs!

Being anxious and wondering about replies can be exhausting. You can always tell your friends that it makes you anxious and ask them to reply. Often our friends just don’t realize something is bothering us until we say something.

My library helpers have a lot of suggestions, and some of them are ones you already know, and some of them come with extra strong approval!

• Stoked Pizza Company
  • Stoked in Washington Square (Brookline) has great vegan pizza options!
• Milano’s in Brighton!
• you’ve already heard of it, but Pino’s is still the correct answer
• Same Old Place in Jamaica Plain
• The Pleasant Cafe in Roslindale is the best!
• Ziggy’s on Washington for New York style slices
  • Ziggy’s Pizza on Washington Street in Brighton. Total hidden gem. Way better than all the other places listed.
• Joe’s Pizza – Harvard Square
  • There’s a new Joe’s Pizza at Harvard Square, and it’s just as good as the NYC original. Best to eat it fresh there by the slice!
• Regina’s 
• Bill’s Pizzeria – Newton Center
• Bardos – they do South Shore style pickle pizza!
• Za in Arlington
• Pini’s in Waltham!
• Max & Leo’s
• Brick House Pizza & Grille in Brighton
• Tenderoni’s at Fenway is really fun as a group!

Best I can do is an estimate. According to EagleSpace there are about 200,000 square feet of exterior walls in the academic buildings on BC’s campuses. Depending on the size of the bricks you’re probably looking at 4-6 bricks per square foot.

I think you might find that my crowd-sourced answer last summer to a question about Boston area bucket-list activities has some good suggestions: bit.ly/bcl-boston-bucket

No need to worry that you’re too sensitive; you are entitled to your feelings. It is possible you are misinterpreting what they are saying, that they spoke without thinking, or that they intentionally said something out of line. You can ask them directly why they said that, or tell them their words were hurtful.

❤️

One thing I have noticed is that people often have more going on in their lives than we ever know. There are many reasons you might not feel like your friends are being friends, and often the best way to find out is to ask them what’s going on.

Sorry no mod. ?

Easy-peasy! Just go to bit.ly/ONeillStudyRoom You can also find the Study Rooms link under “Quick Links” on the library home page: library.bc.edu. Here’s a QR code to make it easy!