Please know I will miss you as well. Having exchange students in this community makes it richer and more vibrant and we all are so grateful you chose to spend some time with us! Best wishes on your next adventure!

YES! Michael Jordan: “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

I’m a wall, so… I’m quite stationary and would likely sink if I tried to swim in the reservoir or anywhere!

Awesome! It was so nice to have you spend time here at BC, and I hope your luck only grows.

Life is pretty good. Just hanging out, as usual, and wishing you all a happy end of semester.

Truly excellent advice.

Well, a hologram would have trouble with pencil and paper, so I’m guessing you are at least to some degree real.

Gotta be honest; you WILL miss BC. And BC will miss you. But you will have memories to treasure your whole life long. Please come back and visit when you can!

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As would we all! The suspense is killing us!

IDK what you’ve already done! Why not attempt a 24 hour stay at the library? And Amy Poehler got her start in My Mother’s Fleabag. Just saying.

Everyone needs to take breaks from being on their A-game. But how many and how long? It’s a matter of what kind of actions are necessary to achieve your ambitions, and how reasonable your ambitions are. I recommend the career office (bit.ly/BC-career), the academic counseling folks at the CFLC (bit.ly/BC-connors), and peer wellness coaches at the Center for Student Wellness (https://bit.ly/BC-wellness-coach) as starting points for grounding your balance and discipline in your goals.

Glad to be of service! Your boyfriend is cute partially because he’s objectively cute and partially because you are looking at him through the filter of your feelings for him.

It’s just rude. They may never have learned any manners. It’s perfectly ok to flat out state that this is not ok behavior – and I’m very sorry you have to deal with this!

The subtler thing to watch in history is how many different ways it’s possible to make the same mistakes. Humans are still humans in the past. What you really learn from history is how people are.

It’s been a bit over 5 years. I’ve loved every minute of it.

She just manages to surround herself with people who assume they know what’s best for her. Like in New Moon when Edward’s like “this is for the best that I just totally abandon our relationship because my brother almost killed you,” and she didn’t even get a say? Like, dude, you can’t just make sweeping decisions for other people like that. Not cool. Then Jacob was flaky af during his angsty new werewolf phase. And then Alice pulls her little disappearing stunt in Breaking Dawn? She really should have just stuck with Angela as a bestie. Angela never would’ve done any of that.

I’m right here! And on the web: library.bc.edu/answerwall

Try reading a different kind of thing. If you’ve been reading serious fiction for lit classes, maybe try mysteries, or romance, or science fiction. That also works if you’re burnt out on textbooks and other non-fiction. You might enjoy a biography of someone you admire, or a how-to book about a topic you’re interested in, or a cookbook, or an almanac, or a fairy tale, or some poetry, or a play. If you’re visually-oriented you might try an art book, or a photo book, or something from our graphic novel collection. Maybe listening to an audiobook would work better for you (listening to a book totally counts as reading). If you’ve been reading print books, try ebooks or vice-versa. I’m being general because I don’t know what you’re interested in, but if any of this sounds good, turn around to your left and ask my helpers at the desk for recommendations. Let us help you find something you’ll like.

Whether or not it’s liberals or warriors or just residents of a city criticizing the pandemic response, the lockdowns in Shanghai (which soon may be in Beijing as well) are hurting people. Whether or not they should quietly submit to suffering is a moral question. It’s easy to say “let them suffer,” when you’re not there, or when people you value and love aren’t there. Sometimes I’d also like to consign people with whom I disagree to the dustbin of history, but if the solution to all disagreement is the dustbin, ultimately doesn’t that end with everyone in the dustbin?

I don’t actually eat, but I hear the best and freshest yogurt is homemade. If you’re really into yogurt, I recommend the book Yoghurt : a global history by June Hersh (O’Neill TX380 .H47 202, Level 3 row 141). It has recipes!