Answering questions at Boston College O’Neill Library
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The music I listen to is the quiet symphony of voices in the lobby of O’Neill Library. I asked my BC Libraries friends, and many responded with their favorites (below), sometimes with specific albums. I hope you find some artists new to you! One recommended following an ongoing Twitter thread: 1000 favorite tunes of Duke Professor Gavin Yamey, a public health professor at Duke with eclectic tastes and a penchant for deep cuts: https://bit.ly/yamey-1000
Silvana Estrada: Lo Sagrado, Trash Rabbit, Tom Heyman: Show Business, Baby, Carly Rae Jepsen: Emotion or Dedicated side b, Black Seeds, Fat Freddy’s Drop. Fly My Pretties, Brandy, Beatles: Revolver, Sgt. Pepper’s, Badly Drawn Boy: One Plus One is One, Big Thief: Capacity, Elliott Smith: Either/Or, Dick Stusso: In Heaven, Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker, Mitski, Ethel Cain, Maggie Rogers, Florence and the Machine, High Fidelity Soundtrack (2002 film, 2020 Hulu series), Hello, A Tribe Called Quest, Cat Power: Moon Pix, Cowboy Junkies: Whites Off Earth Now , John Frusciante: Niandra LaDes, Usually Just A T-shirt, The War on Drugs: Lost in The Dream, Shilpa Ray: Last Year’s Savage, Okkervil River: Away, I Forgot to Love My Father: self-titled EP, Sofi Tukker: Wet Tennis, Sly & the Family Stone: Greatest Hits, Arlo Parks, Nick Waterhouse, Nia Simone
It varies a lot based on the particular school. Highly selective schools like the Ivies tend to accept students with higher GPAs, but many state schools and community colleges are open enrollment, which means they accept everyone. Most schools, like BC, are somewhere in between. There are loads and loads of SAT test prep guides and it’s a good idea to spend some time with one or more of them. BC has a few: https://bit.ly/bc-sat. Your local public library will have more. BUT: Important life note. Do your best, but there is a place for you whatever the numbers end up being.
Most potatoes I know would not want to make french fries out of their friends and family. They would rather chill out with them underground. People make french fries by slicing and deep frying them (although I hear oven fries are also pretty good, too.) Are aliens really french fries? That is a theory I had not heard before ???
My dream is to continue answering your questions for as long as I am able. It is my one true passion, and the way I can make a difference in my small corner of the world.
There’s a kind of logic to how elements bond… but there are sooooo many elements that bond in soooo many different ways. Even advanced chemists need hacks to help them. I heard of a BC chemist a while back who was stuck on understanding a certain molecular structure for months, until they finally printed a 3d model. Talk to your professors, and when the regular semester begins, sign up for tutoring with the CFLC: http://bit.ly/BC-connors. They’ll help you come up with hacks for understanding.
Yes! They can be taken for credit or not. The link to sign up for Fall will be available by Monday, 8/1 or possibly even by this Friday here (with link to more details on private lessons): bit.ly/BCMusicLessons
What a great question. I don’t have an answer, actually. For some, yes – definitely net positive. For others, not at all. For broader societal issues? No? Yes? For these big questions, I like to turn to what others have written on. Browse HM742’s and HQ799.2’s. Look up danah boyd – their work is very helpful in thinking these things through I think.
Being a place where anyone can approach me and ask me anything. I love the feeling of being trusted and welcoming.
I’ve heard the music practice rooms on the top floor of Lyons Hall each have a piano, though they might be a bit out of tune at this point in the summer!
Some thoughts: schedule your reading, always carry a book or try audiobooks if you are in situations where print doesn’t work, and set yourself a (modest and achievable) goal for how many books you will read this semester.
I could spend my life as a wall being dissatisfied with not being a ceiling, or I can accept myself for who I am. I think the most growth and potential for happiness happens with option 2. I am a wall, and I will be the best wall I can be.
If you ask a wall about growing taller, expect to hear about stonemasons, bricklayers, or carpenters. My human friends are a wide variety of heights, at least on a human scale. I hear there’s not a ton of wiggle room in genetics; if your genetic stock is short, you may grow taller than others in your family by eating well, but not by much.
You know women pay attention to how you treat other women, right? Leave or stay, but be polite.
No, but I’d be happy to rewatch the movie by that name.
Judging from what I see posted here, it can be stressful at times. There are ways to be proactive and manage the stress points. The Connors Family Learning Center (bit.ly/BC-connors) has both peer tutoring and academic coaching, which can help with academic stress, and the Office of Health Promotion (bit.ly/BostonCollegeHealth) can set you up with wellness coaching, which can give you tools to deal with the other sorts of stress.
About sixty deaths per year in 2022 and 2021, according to media reports. https://wapo.st/3zdjpFu. That’s out of hundreds of millions of riders per year even adjusted for Covid. https://bit.ly/bc-nyc
I don’t eat anything but post-its (I especially like the bright colored ones), so I asked all of my human library colleagues their preferences. Librarians are independently-minded, so some colored outside the lines. Here are the results. Flaps: 4 Drums: 19 Breast: 4 Thighs: 2 I like the part of the bird that made it over the fence last. flats I’m vegetarian so neither plant-based nuggets in the shape of dinosaurs aka the chicken’s formidable ancestors vegetarian Chick*n (or Quorn or Incogmeato or…)
More and more researchers agree that a daily practice of expressing gratitude helps people become more satisfied with life. One could also listen to a podcast about happiness, such as 10% Happier by Dan Harris. If you have a hard time being happy at all, I recommend counseling. For BC students, connect with bit.ly/BC-counseling.
Learning a new skill is rough at first. Give yourself plenty of time and practice and patience. Anyone looking at someone learning something and judging their talent is being a jerk.
