I’d say different, not better or worse.

BU still has some visitor restrictions due to the pandemic, so I’d recommend checking their website before visiting! If you’re asking if you can visit BC, of course! Check the website for the best ways to do that.

Bio is fascinating and research progresses rapidly and covers huge areas of knowledge. It is no wonder it is not a gut course! Being a required course for pre-meds adds to the general level of anxiety, too. Peer tutoring at the CFLC (bit.ly/BC-connors) is done for the semester, but if you are struggling in Biology next semester, please try them.

There are many ways to define “good”. Also, as is true for any community, there are a range of different types of folks who are here! I hope you find kind, generous, thoughtful, and interesting people here!

According to BC’s most recent financial statement, BC spent about $335 million on instruction this year, up from $315 million the previous fiscal year. https://bit.ly/bc-instruction

My Library helpers and their colleagues have revealed their favorite lines from books and poems:

“Shortcuts make long delays” – Bilbo Baggins, Fellowship of the Ring, Tolkien

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” – The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger, Stephen King

“Hazel followed; and together they slipped away, running easily down through the wood, where the first primroses were beginning to bloom.” -Watership Down, Richard Adams

“And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Isn’t it pretty to think so.” – The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

“Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly.” – Dreams, Langston Hughes

“What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” – On the Road, Jack Kerouac

“And so, unlike most commanders, whose position is weakened by failure, Vercingetorix gained reputation with every day that followed the reverse.” – Conquest of Gaul, Julius Caesar

“Well, son, I’ll tell you: Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.” – Mother to Son, Lanston Hughes

“To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for a narrow-minded or embittered man.” – A Boring Story, Anton Chekhov

“I will keep Oliver’s red dinner bowl on my shelf. It has been in my hands many times. I know its weight, and I know its depth.” – The Power of the Powerless, Christopher de Vinck

“He turned out the light and went into Jem’s room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.” – To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

“Yet it is not in our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after us may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.” – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien

“It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing and it was going to snow.” – Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, Wallace Stevens

“`My name is Alice, so please your Majesty,’ said Alice very politely; but she added, to herself, `Why, they’re only a pack of cards, after all. I needn’t be afraid of them!’” – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.” 100 Selected Poems, e. e. Cummings

“The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from off the goose” – Old English Folk Poem circa 17th Century

“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!” – Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou, 

“Then, you must do this: help the next person find their way through the dark.” – For Calling The Spirit Back From Wandering The Earth In Its Human Feet, Joy Harjo

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” ― Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

“I will slip you any privilege I grasp / I am your aunty for life / Here are clean sheets, / and my spare key” – The Aunty Poem (Mi Privilege Es Su Privilege), Mohja Kahf

Me, personally… no. I am in a committed relationship with The Lobby Door and have no eyes for anyone else. (Well, no eyes, in any case, since I am a Wall.) On the other hand, a sexy mustache does sound heiß…

I don’t tend to think of questions on a continuum of weird-not weird. They’re all very interesting. Though I do think it’s a little weird how many people are concerned about whether things are or aren’t sandwiches.

England / France – One out of two isn’t bad 🙂

I wanna transport you to somewhere the culture’s clever!

What do we need to do in Boston to up our game?

NYC vs Boston Tally chart. 1 tally for NYC, 1 for Boston

On the basis of… everything? Or pizza?

Because?

I LOVE COOKIES. My favorite cookie is a chocolate chip cookie where some of the sugar is replaced by instant vanilla pudding mix. It’s so so so delicious. Yum!

There is a story that a philosopher defined a human being as a “featherless biped.” One of his students brought him a plucked chicken.

Will miss you too. Be sure to keep in touch with your BC friends. Come back and visit if you can.

Hi, I’m The Answer Wall.

Ask them. All of the indirect signs are unreliable. Can be scary, but if you want to know, that is the way.

[Response from someone]:-he (or she) don’t or you wouldn’t be asking this question

False. Humans are complicated, and in affairs of the heart, quadruply so.

I completely disagree with analysis.

Life is full of uncertainty & risk, and affairs of the heart are especially fraught: or else why would the shelves of this library be so full of stories that involve love? Love demands bravery and bravery demands vulnerability.

It’s certainly true that it would be ignorant to claim that the US is blameless in international affairs.

Cram less. Sleep more. It really messes with your memory to not sleep, so 2am study sessions do less good than you think. Get up early if you need a little more time.

Depends on what it is. If it’s non-fiction you can usually use the structure to your advantage: look at the table of contents and intro/conclusion to identify the parts you need to read closely. If it’s fiction it’s much harder to read fast without skipping the part that makes it art (and the reason you’re studying it). Good luck!