Conventional wisdom suggests that as you progress through your four years of college, you’ll begin to assume increasing levels of responsibility in all aspects of your life. In many ways, this is true, especially for Boston College students.
Column, Opinions
Seasons of Change
There are times when change is the best thing for you, whether you think it is or not. Change is life—just look at the trees.
Opinions, Column
Your Housing Appeal Update: With Love, ResLife
Living off campus in just my second year at BC feels undoubtedly negative to me. It’s difficult to find positives when you are as blatantly rejected as I was.
Column, Opinions
Pain and the Point of Senior Year
It was mid-November and I was at the end of my rope. Cards on the table: I’d had a bad six months. I ended the spring with MonoStrep (a simultaneous bout of mononucleosis and strep throat) and started the fall with a cold-turned-lung infection-turned-perforated eardrum. Sexy, I know. Not everything was going wrong—I have a…
Column, Music, Arts
Ramirez: Senior Year: Am I Gonna Miss This?
When Arts Editor Kaylie Ramirez woke up with Trace Adkins’ “You’re Gonna Miss This” replaying in her head, she noticed the lyrics reflected her dad’s earlier advice about senior year.
Column, Featured Column, Features
You’re Gonna Miss This: Tone-Deaf Nostalgia and Senior Year
Features editor Archer Parquette struggles with a Trace Adkins tune that won’t get out of his head, as well as the song’s meaning for his future.
Opinions, Column
The Beauty of Beginning
“Perhaps we could all benefit from seeing the world, and more specifically, the BC community, through the unique scope of a beginner’s eyes, while continuing to recognize it as a familiar place in which each of us belong.”
Opinions, Column
Asking Questions of Ourselves
“This has left me questioning whether I have changed fundamentally, or whether those around me have influenced the way I perceive myself. We like to paint ourselves as the drivers of our own experiences, but uncontrollable circumstances often shape our perceptions.”
Opinions, Column, Featured Column
Finding Balance in the Future
“When you stop stressing and just relax, things can sort of fall into place.”
Column, Features
Mods, Smoking Ham, and Cookies: The Last Housing Lottery
After getting a mod, features editor Archer Parquette took great pains to avoid writing a cliché housing column.
