Thumbs Up:
- Last Week of Classes
- After months of late-night exam cramming and essay writing, the last week of classes is here. While saying goodbye to our favorite professors is bittersweet, we are all ready to leave behind the surface-level small talk with classmates and hurried walks to 9 a.m. classes, if only for a month. Whether you are wrapping up your first semester at Boston College or bracing for your last, let’s appreciate these final few days and finish the year strong.
- Christmas Trees Galore
- The holiday season has finally arrived, and Boston College students are more than ready to celebrate. Whether shopping for the perfect secret santa gifts or decorating drab dorm walls with strings of lights, the holiday cheer of BC students is unmatched. From the trees standing in the windows of Vandy to the wreaths adorning the doors of Gasson, the holiday spirit is here to stay. Here’s to appreciating the light and joy that the tree on O’Neill Plaza brings to campus during our last few weeks of the semester.
Thumbs Down:
- Late Night Study Sessions
- With finals week looming, students all across campus are preparing for a near-impossible feat—securing a table in O’Neill. If you’re hoping to snatch one of the highly coveted reading room booths, be prepared to wake up at the crack of dawn and spend your entire day in study lockdown. Would it really be finals week if you didn’t spend every waking hour scrutinizing lecture notes and crafting study guides? Get ready to sleep, study, and repeat. Trust us, your winter break will be well deserved by the time exams are through.
- Formal Date Frenzy
- Club formals are the perfect way to close out the semester—what’s better than putting on your best attire and pushing your study guides aside to spend the night with friends? Formals would not be complete, however, without dreaded date anxiety. Should you bring your best friend or enlist a blind date? Is this the perfect opportunity to make a move on the class crush you’ve been pining after all semester? This pre-formal panic is nearly as stress-inducing as finals week, and we here at Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down wish you all the best as you make your plus-one decisions.
