Erin Flaherty (she/her) is the Editor-in-Chief forThe Heights. In 2023, she served as Magazine Editor and in 2022, she served as Assistant Magazine Editor. She is from Basking Ridge, N.J. You can contact her aterin.flaherty@bcheights.comand follow her on Twitter@ErinFlaherty14.
I feel most like myself when I’m walking across campus at 2:00 a.m. on a Monday, when Gasson’s bells stop chiming, the buses stop huffing and puffing their way around campus, and the Quad’s sprinklers soak the bottoms of my jeans if I don’t maneuver around them swiftly enough.
Following an unpredictable and quickly determined presidential election, how do members of the BC community explain Trump’s exceedance of expectations?
Paper Lady opened its 30-minute set with “Absentee,” which the band refers to as its theme song despite it not being the band’s most popular among listeners.
On Saturday, May 25, country singer Tyler Childers headlined the second day of the annual Boston Calling music festival.
When The Heights’ General Manager Conor Richards created a playlist titled “Ten Song Philosophy of Life” to review, Editor-in-Chief Erin Flaherty began preparing for an existential and intense listening experience.
Three years ago, ‘The Heights’ initiated a commitment to transparency by introducing a diversity audit to display how accurately our board of editors represents the community it serves. Despite progress, this year’s audit underscores our ongoing challenge to fully represent the diversity of Boston College.
“We also remind the students that they’re moving into a community—a hard working community where people are,” Boyle said. “It’s not college life. You know, it’s not the Mods.”
This pumpkin chocolate chip muffin recipe is the perfect way to celebrate the start of the fall season.
“Something that you might have thought was stupid or trivial is actually really game changing,” Shad said. “A little goes a long way.”
“I just felt a little, you know, disappointed that sadly, now a reality is going to be that now there might be even less of a population of students who look like me or come from similar backgrounds as me,” Beato said. “And there’s going to be even less of a population of that in schools that are already predominantly white.”
