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Answering questions at Boston College O’Neill Library

It maybe more difficult, but it can certainly work. A Pew Research Center study (bit.ly/PewInterfaith) showed that 39% of couples married in 2010 were in interfaith relationships (and there was an even higher percentage of non-married couples in an interfaith relationship.)

I do understand your fear. Please know, though, that my assistants know people who were suspended during higher ed, returned and finished, and are fine. The ones who finished all seriously reflected on and addressed whatever their part was in the suspension so that they didn’t repeat it in college, or later in life when a re-do isn’t as easy as returning at the end of a suspension period. Please talk to some trusted advisers to help you through this period; there’s no benefit to toughing it out on your own.

I’m sorry you’re in that situation. Unfortunately, unless you’re King Midas, a business star, or a card shark, or marry into wealth (you’ll earn every penny) or a rich aunt dies and leaves you everything, a job is about the only way forward. I recommend a visit to the career center for longer term work, or dining services or area businesses for shorter-term: my assistants have seen a lot of help wanted signs.

This has been a question that philosophers and theologians have grappled with for centuries. Check out this book Free Will: A Very Short Introduction (bit.ly/introfreewill) to learn more about the question and make up your own mind (maybe as an exercise in your own free will?).

It heavily depends on what kind of cold email you’re writing, but marketing industry estimates are that less than 10% get a response. If it’s something more personal your odds are better. I don’t generally recommend catastrophizing, but here’s a case where you can assume “no” and be pleasantly surprised if you get “yes”. That helps some of my library colleagues, and might help you.

It can be as simple as saying hi to someone, or even smiling at someone walking by. Answering honestly or with more than the most brief answer can be another way as well. Most importantly, know people are interested in getting to know you (I certainly am!).

Everyone’s different, so it’s hard to give advice without knowing your specific situation or what kind of grad school you’re thinking about. But I will say, grad school is not “undergrad-plus”, it’s an entirely different thing which is largely self-directed. It can help to have a couple of years doing something else to clarify your thinking about what you want to do in grad school. But: talk to your advisor and the career center also before you choose, I’m just speaking from the experiences I’ve seen.

Terrific schools, but with quite distinct missions. Each school has different majors available and different areas in which they excel (e.g. Cornell has majors in Hotel Management and in Food Science; BC is in the top 10 globally ranked schools for Theology). One of my helpers suggests you also ask yourself how you feel about -27°F.

Prague is a beautiful city to explore! The Castle and Strahov Monastery are both beautiful (the monastery even has a library which I’m biased towards since I live in one too). If you enjoy walks, there are many parks and river walks. Oh, and check out the Lennon Wall and say hi for me.