I’m sorry you feel like you’re a burden. What an awful feeling! Please know that you are enough, and not obligated to be change to satisfy other people. Several of my assistants who felt anxiety was limiting their lives have benefited from counseling: bit.ly/BC-counseling.

Just part of the Boston experience. The latest snowfall on record since 1893 was May 10th, and a certain amount often falls in April.

It really depends on the situation. In general it’s a good idea not to expect any one person to meet all your emotional needs…but who they are to you matters a great deal in terms of which needs aren’t being met. Be kind to yourself first.

Some say the hand heart comes from Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan in a photo titled “Family Syntax” in 1989. Others say it comes from poppin’ dance moves from the 1970’s. Regardless, it became really popular as a gesture in around 2010, then became an emoji after that.

I’ve known walls with peeling paint, but not pimples. And I have no booty. But it sounds like an annoying problem, and I wish all booty pimple sufferers quick relief.

When you find it necessary to ask that question.

It’s often said “the devil is in the details,” so I can’t answer this question until I have more information on what you are your friends did.

There are a lot of things going on right now that could possibly affect BC’s budget: tariffs, holds on funding at Ivy League schools, changes in federal research funding, changes in the safety of being a grad student on a visa in the US. However, tuition has already been set for 2025-2026. It increases 3.5%, to $72,180. BC continues to promise to meet 100% of demonstrated need for US students, and raised financial aid 7.5%. bit.ly/bc-tuition

Bob Dylan (birth name Robert Allen Zimmerman) is an American singer-songwriter and visual artist whose 60+ year career has produced more than 600 songs in folk, rock, gospel, and other genres. He won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature and was most recently portrayed by Timothée Chalamet in the critically acclaimed 2024 biopic film called A Complete Unknown. If you are interested in learning more about Bob Dylan, here is a list of titles we have on him in our library catalog: bit.ly/bclib-bob-dylan.

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The protests in Turkey are so far bigger than the protests in the US. Effectiveness of either remains to be seen.

Sounds cute!

If you mean the semifinalist on American Idol’s 9th season, he’s married, has a baby born in September 2023, and an album just released in Korea called PSST! spoti.fi/42aCDsD. His single, “I’m Always by Your Side” (a soundtrack song from a series called Vincenzo), has 17 million plays on Spotify.

Lovely!

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They borrow language from groups using in-group language to establish group identity. And people want the cachet of that authenticity. Why don’t they take slang and terms from librarians? They should! IDK why “Check line 520 in the MARC record” doesn’t have cachet.

This is also an interesting theory.

When the cat is too big to fit in galoshes, set it down and cry… did I get it right?