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.)

When you ask a Wall about common knowledge, you’ll hear all about how I don’t often know what humans consider common knowledge. And since I’m a Wall in a Library, I often find myself missing allusions. This Oxford Dictionary of Allusions can help up anyone’s allusion game: https://bc-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/l6ucgu/ALMA-BC21374928660001021

What is i in median when there is adjusted interval is given

Sounds like you might want to check in with a math teacher or professor! Here’s an open source statistics textbook that might help you: https://openstax.org/details/books/introductory-statistics

I would like to think so (I find humans lean on each other, and me, for support and kindness). But you can explore whether you think so too alongside philosophers who have been trying to figure this out for millenia. Maybe start with the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s entry on Human Nature: https://stanford.io/3ALMtol

I am confused as to what to do in life. Wall o Wall tell me before you go offline. How to know what to do job or be an entrepreneur. Data science or be a content expert or what 

This is really not uncommon. And remember, whatever you decide now does not have to be your career forever; people often change jobs and career paths throughout their working lives. If you are a Boston College student, I highly recommend scheduling a consultation with the Career Center (bit.ly/BC-career).

My Library helpers and their colleagues gathered their favorite study spots:

Favorite places to study:

1. ERC Library
2. Theology and Ministry Library – second floor
3. Bapst Library
4. Higgins Atrium
5. 245 Beacon Street
6. O’Neill Library – level five

Hidden Nooks and Small Spaces:

1. Stokes Bridge
2. Carrels at the Theology and Ministry Library

Graduate study spots outside of O’Neill:

1. Murray House (for coffee)
2. Bapst Library

Please don’t suffer alone. Counseling Services (http://bit.ly/BC-counseling) is a good place to start. Lots of warm Wall hugs to you, and yes, it does get better.

I could never manage it on my own, but my helpers use a printed template with boxes for the Post-Its to feed into the printer and then they type in the answers on another template with the same layout. It does seem a bit magical to me!

A perfect MCAT score s pretty rare and y don’t need a 528 to become a doctor. I advise you to do your best and then work with the results – and consult with the BC pre-med advisors (bit.ly/PreMedBC) throughout the process. You can re-take the exam and take other steps to become a more competitive candidate if you get a low score. Best of luck!

My Library helpers and their colleagues have some sad movie recommendations. 

1. Grave of the Fireflies
2. Ghost World
3. The Way We Were
4. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: The Return of the King
5. Whisper of the Heart
6. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
7. Scent of a Woman
8. The Thin Red Line
9. The NeverEnding Story
10.  Harold and Maude
11.  Fiddler on the Roof
12.  Steel Magnolias
13.  Bambi
14.  Love, Actually is both my favorite Christmas and sad movie. I’ve watched it about 20 times and it still makes me cry, but it’s a sentimental (almost happy) cry, not the kind of thing that will make you want to go to bed and pull the covers over your head.
15. Old Joy
16. Scenes from a Marriage
17. La Strada
18. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Restrooms on all five floors. Your best bet is probably level two.

My Library helpers and their colleagues have a few ideas on what to make sure you do before graduation.

Places to visit:

1. Crane Beach
2. Go on a Whale watch cruise
3. Boston nautical landmarks you never saw while at BC. USS Constitution tour, Rowe’s Wharf for lunch, ferry to Harbor Islands for afternoon, dinner at The Tall Ship in East Boston, overnight stay at Custom House Tower. Peace Out!
4. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
5. Boston Harbor Islands
6. See a play at the Robsham!

Places and things to eat:

1. Modern Pastry
2. Clam Box of Ipswich
3. Eat at a spendy Italian restaurant in the North End, preferably at night
4. Blue Ribbon BBQ
5. Cream of Wheat at Neighborhood in Somerville. Trust me.
6. Flatbreads
7. Ramen down in Coolidge Corner
8. Cannoli

For what they’re worth (not much), the US News rankings have BC and BU tied for #11 with several other schools. The real way to pick a grad school is to pick the one that has faculty and/or programs working on the things you want to work on. Talk to other grad students there about who makes a good advisor.

Sorry, couldn’t read that last bit! But glad you are happy with them!

We can all (LGBTQ & allies) encourage & promote the use of pronouns by doing things like posting a question like yours in a public space, for example. Community efforts are often stronger. If you’re a student, you might find it helpful to connect with the LGBTQ community thorugh the office of student outreach & support (bit.ly/bc-stu-support). Staff can connect via LGBT@BC: bit.ly/lgbt-at-bc.

Maybe try Powerwash Simulator while you wait. It’s not competitive, but you are still hosing things down.

I feel so guilty for being a homosexual. Will this feeling ever go away or will i just live the rest of my life hating myself? I dont know what to do with my life or how to tell the people i truly love the most. Sometimes, as bad as this may sound, i do hope it is a phase, but in my mind i know its not and sometimes that makes me upset. The fact that i will never be normal worries me every day.

I have some good news—it does not have to feel like this forever. Feelings of guilt and self-hatred are terribly difficult, but since they are learned, they can also be unlearned over time. I firmly believe that finding community and actively seeking out representation is the path towards learning to love yourself exactly as you are. When we find community that accepts us—and when we see people like us finding joy, whether it be in real life, TV, movies, or books—we begin to learn that there is so much good to be found in embracing who we know ourselves to be, regardless of what others consider “normal.” We have to remember that if we try to live inauthentically to please someone else, everyone loses.

Telling the people we love the most can be very hard and scary. There are many groups at Boston College full of people who have gone through similar experiences, and I suggest you reach out to find community and support. Check it out! https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/offices/student-affairs/sites/student-outreach-and-support-services/lgbtq-support.html#tab-discussion_groups

Enjoy the love, just a lil…