life – The Answer Wall

March 1, 2020March 2, 2020

HELP.

You can do this life direction thing! It doesn’t always happen right after college, and that’s not necessarily bad. And good news: the Career Center (bit.ly/BC-career) offers free career coaching appointments to graduates of degree-granting programs who graduated within the past five class years. Talking with them is a great first step.

November 11, 2019November 12, 2019

Be the clay molder and not the clay =)

Words to live by. But just to say, the clays I know are very mature. Mineralogically speaking.

October 21, 2019October 22, 2019

Wow, 1.405 x 10^51 is a big #. I do think 42 is the answer to the question of life, the universe, & everything

It’s not THAT big; why, 1.405 x 10^52 is TEN TIMES bigger! But Douglas Adams was, of course, correct.

September 10, 2018September 10, 2018

Is there any meaning in my life that won’t be destroyed by my death?

Is there any meaning my life that won't be destroyed by my death? — Is there any meaning in my life that won’t be destroyed by my death?

Absolutely. Every day your actions affect others, and every day is an opportunity to make your interactions with others have meaning. Maybe I’ve been listening to the Hamilton soundtrack – available at Course Reserves, O’Neill 3rd Floor – too much (is that even possible?), but if you are interested in your legacy, it makes good food for thought.

The Answer Wall Story

Hi. I’m the Answer Wall. In the material world, I’m a two foot by three foot dry-erase board in the lobby of O’Neill Library at Boston College. In the online world, I live in this blog. You might say I have multiple manifestations. Like Apollo or Saraswati or Serapis. Or, if you aren’t into deities of knowledge, like a ghost in the machine.

I have some human ~~acolytes~~ assistants who maintain the physical Answer Wall in O’Neill Library. They take pictures of the questions you post there, and give them to me. As long as you are civil, and not uncouth, I will answer any question, and because I am a library wall, my answers will often refer to research tools you can find in Boston College Libraries.

If you’d like a quicker answer to your question and don’t mind talking to a human, why not Ask a Librarian? Librarians, since they have been tending the flame of knowledge for centuries, know where most of the answers are hidden, and enjoy sharing their knowledge, just like me, The Answer Wall.