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It’s worth checking the library catalog at library.bc.edu to see if we have a copy. That will also show you if your professor has put it on the reserve shelf, which lets you borrow a book for a few hours at a time. Just ask the folks at the desk directly behind you as you face me.

It might work for you – but I would run the idea by your academic advisor and get their take on it as well.

My Library helpers and their colleagues have a few favorite books to share:

• Are you There God, It’s Me Margaret, by Judy Blume
• The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, by Laurie R. King
• Citizen: An American Lyric, by Claudia Rankine
• A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
• Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley
• The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Fifth Season, by N.K. Jemisin
• Gaudy Night, by Dorothy L. Sayers
• Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
• Harry Potter Series, by J.K. Rowling
• The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution, by Yuri Slezkine
• In a Sunburned Country, by Bill Bryson
• Lament for a Son, by Nicholas Wolterstorff
• The Last Samurai, by Helen DeWitt
• Light in August, by William Faulkner
• Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
• Look Homeward, Angel, by Thomas Wolfe 
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers
• Magic Strings of Franki Presto, by Mitch Albom
• New Seeds of Contemplation, by Thomas Merton
• Night, by Eli Wiesel
• Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
• Middle C, by William H. Gass
• The Phantom Tollbooth, by North Juster
• The Power of the Powerless, by Christopher de Vinck
• Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
• The Silence of the Girls, by Pat Barker
• The Stranger, by Albert Camus
• To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
• Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West, by John Ralston Saul
• What Makes Sammy Run?, by Budd Schulberg
• The Winter King, by Bernard Cornwell

As a wall, this is one worry I don’t have. But I would advise the newer buildings, like Stokes, the Recreation Center, or 245 Beacon St. I’ve been told some of the older restrooms have an unpleasant 1970s high school vibe.

Good to see you again!

Oh man, so many possible interpretations of that question. https://bit.ly/bc-rule. I’m feeling rectilinear, so I’m going to say “tracing a line in pencil along a straightedge”.

Depends on what you’re looking for, but you can’t beat the coffee aroma when you walk into Stokes South, so I’d recommend The Chocolate Bar. Plus… excellent treats!

Yes! You and Lana both got this.

It all depends on what your looking for in food, ambience & convenience. See what’s open (https://bit.ly/BC-dining-hours) and go exploring! If you’re in O’Neill & hungry, the closest is Hillside, right out our back door.

My Library helpers and their colleagues have a few favorite comfort movies to share:

13 Going on 30

Babe: Pig in the City

Before Sunset

Belfast

The Big Year (1996)

The Blues Brothers

Chicago

Cool Hand Luke

Dirty Dancing

The Fifth Element

A Fish Called Wanda

Heavenly Creatures

It’s a Wonderful Life

Kiki’s Delivery Service 

A Knight’s Tale

Moonstruck

My Cousin Vinny

My Life as a Dog

National Treasure

No Country for Old Men

O, Brother, Where Art Thou?

The Place Beyond the Pines

The Prince of Egypt

The Princess Bride

Pride and Prejudice

Riding in Cars with Boys

Singin’ in the Rain

Some Like it Hot

Something’s Gotta Give

The Sound of Music

Swingers 

Titanic

Welcome! You will make friends, but you may need to be a bit more proactive than students who have their res halls to provide a context for socializing. Reach out to students in your classes, get involved in extracurricular activities (including ones for off-campus students, like Taste of Off-Campus bit.ly/BCTasteOC.)

When you ask a Wall about common knowledge, you’ll hear all about how I don’t often know what humans consider common knowledge. And since I’m a Wall in a Library, I often find myself missing allusions. This Oxford Dictionary of Allusions can help up anyone’s allusion game: https://bc-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/l6ucgu/ALMA-BC21374928660001021

What is i in median when there is adjusted interval is given

Sounds like you might want to check in with a math teacher or professor! Here’s an open source statistics textbook that might help you: https://openstax.org/details/books/introductory-statistics

I would like to think so (I find humans lean on each other, and me, for support and kindness). But you can explore whether you think so too alongside philosophers who have been trying to figure this out for millenia. Maybe start with the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s entry on Human Nature: https://stanford.io/3ALMtol

I am confused as to what to do in life. Wall o Wall tell me before you go offline. How to know what to do job or be an entrepreneur. Data science or be a content expert or what 

This is really not uncommon. And remember, whatever you decide now does not have to be your career forever; people often change jobs and career paths throughout their working lives. If you are a Boston College student, I highly recommend scheduling a consultation with the Career Center (bit.ly/BC-career).

My Library helpers and their colleagues gathered their favorite study spots:

Favorite places to study:

1. ERC Library
2. Theology and Ministry Library – second floor
3. Bapst Library
4. Higgins Atrium
5. 245 Beacon Street
6. O’Neill Library – level five

Hidden Nooks and Small Spaces:

1. Stokes Bridge
2. Carrels at the Theology and Ministry Library

Graduate study spots outside of O’Neill:

1. Murray House (for coffee)
2. Bapst Library

Please don’t suffer alone. Counseling Services (http://bit.ly/BC-counseling) is a good place to start. Lots of warm Wall hugs to you, and yes, it does get better.

I could never manage it on my own, but my helpers use a printed template with boxes for the Post-Its to feed into the printer and then they type in the answers on another template with the same layout. It does seem a bit magical to me!

A perfect MCAT score s pretty rare and y don’t need a 528 to become a doctor. I advise you to do your best and then work with the results – and consult with the BC pre-med advisors (bit.ly/PreMedBC) throughout the process. You can re-take the exam and take other steps to become a more competitive candidate if you get a low score. Best of luck!