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Very sweet family! I wish them all the best.

Answering questions at Boston College O’Neill Library

Ah! Well *I* have some thoughts! Looks like you’re talking about VARIANCE! That great and awe inspiring measure of dispersion! If you’d like to look at a book about statistics, head over to the HA29’s – lots of intro textbooks there. We have many online as well so stop by the reference desk if you need help finding them! Enjoy!

The BC Career Center has a fascinating Outcomes website (bit.ly/BCOutcomes) which says that for the latest year studied (Class of 2021) 2% were participating in a volunteer or service program. There will be others who take a break for service later in their careers as well.

This is a really hard question to answer. It depends so much on what your lived experiences and worldviews are – what book will expand, challenge, or flip your perspectives? Someone else may say some classic of the Western canon is the go to book for changing the way you think. And another may give you some recent social science tomes. Personally, I think the world of science fiction and fantasy can really help us think about our existence in new ways. I’ve been taken with Becky Chambers’ work recently. Anyway, maybe other passers-by will write notes with their own answers to this question?