Here’s what art department staff said: “Thanks so much for the question! Sadly, we only have 14 working enlargers in the darkroom in the art department, and usually between 40-60 students taking photography classes at a time. The space is tight and we need to reserve it for those students, since the lab is only open for 20 hours a week. We have limited hours because it has to be staffed to prevent broken equipment, flooding, you name it, but also to provide assistance with students who need help with their printing. I encourage students to take our Photography 1 class, which is also offered this summer!”

If you’re concerned about your behaviors or thoughts, I recommend talking to someone about it. You could talk either to a student wellness coach (bit.ly/BCStudentWell) or a counselor at BC Counseling Services (bit.ly/BC-counseling), either of which would be confidential and supportive.

I recommend speaking to as many people in that area as you can: IOW, professors of psychology and neuroscience at BC and beyond, to ask what they did. Don’t be afraid of cold-calling (or emailing), but be sure to personalize them in some way: speak about their specializations & your interest in them. It’s probably somewhat akin to sending early-career fiction manuscripts for publication; one writer said “you’ve sent almost enough when you can wallpaper a room with rejections.” I’d also talk to the career center: bit.ly/BC-career.

There’s a reason they call it “sophomore slump”! I hope your junior year is all you want it to be.

Partly what you want it to be, with varying input (helpful or harmful) from other sources – people, the earth itself, a higher power… I can almost assure you it will be not exactly as you imagine it, and that along the way there will be highs and lows you can’t predict right now.

Try as much as you can to think of them as a potential friend, not a potential date. How would you approach a potential friend?

Try this method… bit.ly/How2Rick

My library helpers have a lot of ice cream ideas, as well as date ideas. Check them out!

Ice Cream:

• J.P. Licks
• New City in Cambridge (amazing flavors like Baklava! & Vegan options))
• Toscanini’s Ice Cream in Cambridge
• Scoop N’ Scootery. There’s one in Brighton center and another in Allston– they have huge portions which make sharing easy if you want!
• Ron’s Ice Cream (Hyde Park and Dedham)
• Honeycomb Creamery. Lots of cool flavors and plenty of vegan options.
• Honestly, White Mountain Creamery on Comm Ave is great and is walking distance from campus. But, if you want to venture out, try Toscanini’s in Cambridge. Scoop and Scootery is also great for late night ice cream delivery … they have locations in Brighton, Allston, and Arlington. Cabot’s in Newton is hard to beat for old-school diner ambience, and they have great burgers too.
• Caffe Vittoria (North End)

Date Ideas:

• Beacon Hill book store – cool bookstore + great cafe downstairs
• Painting pottery at The Clayroom in Brookline
• Thursday night at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
  • The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (free with your BC id anyways) does Free First Thursdays. Not only is it then free to everyone, but they’re open until 9pm on those days, so you have extra time to see some art and/or hang out in the garden there
• Cooking class at Shiso Kitchen
• If you can get to the deCordova Sculpture Park, it is really fun! You could combine it with a walk around Walden Pond
• Go to a museum! BC students get free admission to the Boston MFA and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Take advantage of it! 🙂
• ramen at Ganko Ittetsu => movie at Coolidge
• Swan boat ride in the Public Gardens
• Live music at the Lizard Lounge

Discounted Cash Flow? Department of Children & Families? Dyneema Composit Fabric? If you mean the valuation method, here’s the formula: bit.ly/invest-o-dcf