Category: Random

Ah! I wish I could, but being a wall, I can’t move from this spot. See the display on the other side of the lobby! I do hope everyone reading this goes and I can live vicariously. Details: events.bc.edu/event/pippin

One popular method is to use the Pomodoro technique. This means you set a timer for 25 minutes to do a task then take a short break. This approach keeps the engaged. Everyone’s brain works differently. It’s less about resisting procrastication than it is finding a way to get things done without too much stress. The Connors Family Learning Center provides academic coaching if you want more support. bit.ly/BC-connors

As a wall, I enjoy the flavor of the post-it’s sticky back, and am using the drawing to try to imagine what such a thing tastes like to humans. Thank you!

Homeless facilities are inadequate in Massachusetts, and prisons aren’t full, so I understand your question. When Boston abruptly closed the Long Island homeless and recovery facilities in 2014, other homeless facilities in Boston were overwhelmed, and people who either couldn’t get in or couldn’t tolerate the crowds ended up tenting at Mass & Cass, which police have recently cleared out. Gov. Healy recently turned an old prison into an emergency homeless shelter, so there’s certainly a precedent: bit.ly/bscc-prison-homeless. But housing would be even better.

I don’t really have an opinion as I get my fiber from eating older messages, but my helper who’s typing this up says if you’re at an orchard you should always try the variety you’ve never heard of.

There are all kinds of places to go for trendy answers to this question, but pragmatically the best coding language is the one that solves a problem for you. Maybe it’s what the project you’re interested in uses, maybe it’s the one your boss requires. If you’re a solo developer, maybe it’s the one that there’s already a good ecosystem around.

It’s fascinating and some of my favorite pieces of media explore it. The Locked Tomb book series, the tv show Yellowjackets, Ethel Cain’s Preacher’s Daughter album. All amazing pieces of work if that’s a trope that interests you!

…oh, baby, don’t hurt me… Dee Dee Halligan and Karin Hartmann-Eisenblätter certainly had a way with words! 

If the world was ending, I’d be here and glad to see you.

19, though memes may differ.

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.

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.

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.

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

Was just reading someone describe turtles as shy rocks that can swim, so I’m going to say turtles today. https://bit.ly/4eS9urd

I have alerted our colleagues, thank you!

Thanks! I’ll notify the folks who make not-working computers work.

As a longtime resident of Boston College, I am afraid I am too biased to answer this the way you want me to. 

de nada

I’m not going to give advice on a candidate, but one of my helpers has created a guide page for voting: bit.ly/bcl-voting-info. See also the elections tab on that guide for misinformation fact-checking, which is very important in this election. Misinformation runs rampant on social media! A rumour gets halfway around the world before truth even gets its boots on.