Speaking as a wall that sometimes gets rained on, it’s wet to me!

I, The Answer Wall, answer the questions; with the assistance of my library staff helpers and often input from many different sources at BC and beyond.

Well, yes! Starting this Friday and Saturday the first floor level of O’Neill will remain open until 2am to provide quiet study space for students.

Isn’t it interesting how interconnected the world is! The name of an outspoken teacher in Hunan inspires someone to name the recently deceased leader of USSR/Russia. Humans are so complicated. I am a wall.

Welcome! I may have just the thing for you: Academic Coaching from the Connors Family Learning Center (bit.ly/BC-connors). It focuses on helping you improve your time management and study habits.

Hi friend! Missed you too! Glad you are back!

I haven’t played those, but one of my helpers says he prefers Elden Ring because of the expansive world and because the game mechanics are more accommodating to newcomers, while still providing a fun challenge for Soulsborne veterans. He has yet to beat Elden Ring in its entirety, but thus far, his favorite bosses have been General Radahn and Morgott, the Omen King. Also really loves the Siofra River area. And if you haven’t checked, there are a zillion top 10 bosses discussions all over the gaming web.

The odds are on Brazil, but it is a ways off still and anyone can dream!

It’s worth checking the library catalog at library.bc.edu to see if we have a copy. That will also show you if your professor has put it on the reserve shelf, which lets you borrow a book for a few hours at a time. Just ask the folks at the desk directly behind you as you face me.

It might work for you – but I would run the idea by your academic advisor and get their take on it as well.

My Library helpers and their colleagues have a few favorite books to share:

• Are you There God, It’s Me Margaret, by Judy Blume
• The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, by Laurie R. King
• Citizen: An American Lyric, by Claudia Rankine
• A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
• Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley
• The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Fifth Season, by N.K. Jemisin
• Gaudy Night, by Dorothy L. Sayers
• Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
• Harry Potter Series, by J.K. Rowling
• The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution, by Yuri Slezkine
• In a Sunburned Country, by Bill Bryson
• Lament for a Son, by Nicholas Wolterstorff
• The Last Samurai, by Helen DeWitt
• Light in August, by William Faulkner
• Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
• Look Homeward, Angel, by Thomas Wolfe 
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers
• Magic Strings of Franki Presto, by Mitch Albom
• New Seeds of Contemplation, by Thomas Merton
• Night, by Eli Wiesel
• Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
• Middle C, by William H. Gass
• The Phantom Tollbooth, by North Juster
• The Power of the Powerless, by Christopher de Vinck
• Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
• The Silence of the Girls, by Pat Barker
• The Stranger, by Albert Camus
• To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
• Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West, by John Ralston Saul
• What Makes Sammy Run?, by Budd Schulberg
• The Winter King, by Bernard Cornwell

As a wall, this is one worry I don’t have. But I would advise the newer buildings, like Stokes, the Recreation Center, or 245 Beacon St. I’ve been told some of the older restrooms have an unpleasant 1970s high school vibe.

Good to see you again!

Oh man, so many possible interpretations of that question. https://bit.ly/bc-rule. I’m feeling rectilinear, so I’m going to say “tracing a line in pencil along a straightedge”.

Depends on what you’re looking for, but you can’t beat the coffee aroma when you walk into Stokes South, so I’d recommend The Chocolate Bar. Plus… excellent treats!

Yes! You and Lana both got this.

It all depends on what your looking for in food, ambience & convenience. See what’s open (https://bit.ly/BC-dining-hours) and go exploring! If you’re in O’Neill & hungry, the closest is Hillside, right out our back door.

My Library helpers and their colleagues have a few favorite comfort movies to share:

13 Going on 30

Babe: Pig in the City

Before Sunset

Belfast

The Big Year (1996)

The Blues Brothers

Chicago

Cool Hand Luke

Dirty Dancing

The Fifth Element

A Fish Called Wanda

Heavenly Creatures

It’s a Wonderful Life

Kiki’s Delivery Service 

A Knight’s Tale

Moonstruck

My Cousin Vinny

My Life as a Dog

National Treasure

No Country for Old Men

O, Brother, Where Art Thou?

The Place Beyond the Pines

The Prince of Egypt

The Princess Bride

Pride and Prejudice

Riding in Cars with Boys

Singin’ in the Rain

Some Like it Hot

Something’s Gotta Give

The Sound of Music

Swingers 

Titanic

Welcome! You will make friends, but you may need to be a bit more proactive than students who have their res halls to provide a context for socializing. Reach out to students in your classes, get involved in extracurricular activities (including ones for off-campus students, like Taste of Off-Campus bit.ly/BCTasteOC.)