Answering questions at Boston College O’Neill Library
I am a Wall that communicates with the help of a few different library workers. I have a few other cousin and extended family walls around campus that provide advice as well. While I’m flattered by the profession of love, my deepest hope is that you find a human that can love you better than I ever could. I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that my pronouns are They/Them/Their; I am non-gendered Wall after all.
I’m a bit of a chameleon, in that I tend to reflect the personalities of the people who help me answer your questions. Librarians tend to be INTJ, though.
Thanks! I will most certainly continue to give advice. I hope it remains meaningful!
Aww, thanks. And thank YOU for making O’Neill special, just by being here.
I am thankful there are many doctors and scientists working to help people. We can do our part by washingour hands often to keep illness from spreading.
I see you, all tired and bleary-eyed, but still smiling. May all your study yield much learning and success.
Thank you! I will continue to be upstanding and supportive.
Thanks! I appreciate the post-it version of cake. I love eating post-its. I do work hard, but all the walls here at BC work hard.
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Thanks! I’ll stay strong & supportive. With the collective help of a small army of librarians and all the books in here, I can’t help but seem smart, right?
No one knows! There are a few different theories, but probably the most legitimate one is that it is a stylistic variation of a middle ages mark designed to show interrogative annunciation. That mark was a dot next to a lightning-bolt-shaped line (to see the image check out bit.ly/OriginalQuestionMark). This potentially morphed into today’s question mark. Another popular theory online is that the question mark comes from the Latin word for Question, “quaestio”. This would be abbreviated “qo” and the q eventually migrated over the o creating the modern “?”. I am unable to find any primary or high quality secondary sources that back this theory, however.
I’m sorry to hear this happened to you. In the Wall’s humble opinion, online dating apps have become so game-ified that users tend to forget that their actions affect real people. Fortunately, though, your date made your decision easy on you–you wouldn’t want to go out with someone who treats people like that anyway, right?
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Some questions to ask yourself: is there a topic you’d really like to investigate in depth? do you have the time in your schedule senior year to do this and do it well? are you planning on graduate school or a job in academia? Being able to point to a well-executed and written thesis, gives you an advantage. Also, talk with your major advisors about this.
I recommend meeting with a health coach at the Office for Health Promotion. The staff there will be able to help you establish and maintain a healthier lifestyle that fits your needs. Although taking an hour out of your day can seem like a nuisance, talking to a health professional can give you strategies to lose weight and keep it off (if that’s what you need) through personalized assessments. They can also help you figure out other ways to be happier and healthier! bit.ly/BC-health-promo
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Looks like a man o’war. I’m glad you just put up a picture of one on me, not the real thing.
Find interests you have in common and focus on those. If you like sports, join an IM team. Board games? Join a club for that. Academically oriented? There are plenty of discipline-based clubs on campus to join. You’re going to have to get out of your comfort zone and meet new people. Note also: your English is probably better than you think it is. Don’t stress about the language as much and focus on the interaction. Good luck! I believe in you!
Ah! You’re right. I was wrong to assume that. Please accept my apologies.
Well, it’s a dramatized reenactment of conversations, interactions, and decisions that the writers have no actual insight into. For example, the episode where LBJ is kissed by Princess Margaret is nearly entirely false (although there was a party in the White House during her visit to the US and the US did eventually support bailing out the Pound). If she were a perfect person, she would make for pretty boring television. Second, she’s in a pretty difficult spot being the sovereign of a nation that has viewed a sovereign as less and less necessary over time. As you see in the show and in headlines from this past week, controlling her very large family is rather difficult.
Now you know she’s not worth the time. Cut your losses and move on. You deserve someone who will treat you better than that and you’ll find her eventually.
Sceniscophobia is a thing, but an irrational one. Nuns are much much more likely to feed you or teach you something than do anything scary, and BC is a great place to meet them. Western nuns don’t wear the habit since Vatican II, but Asian and African ones often do, and there are lots around campus.
Ha! That’s excellent. I did not know that, and I’ll remind my helper to check their facts a little more closely.
If this is a new problem, I’d suggest getting your vision checked. Otherwise, Academic Coaching from the Connors Family Learning Center (bit.ly/BC-connors) can help you develop skills and learn to better use your time so you get more (or all) of your reading done.
