Support The Heights:
Click here to donate
The News Site of Boston College

The Heights
The News Site of Boston College

The Heights
The News Site of Boston College

The Heights
(Photo Courtesy of Ted Wind)

How BC Senior Ted Wind Aided the Influencer and Fostered Community at Socion

Kate Kissel • October 8, 2024
“We are going to go somewhere next,” Wind said. “I absolutely love this. There's been nothing more fulfilling I've ever done in my life.”  
(Photo Courtesy of Thalia Chaves)

Scholarship, Collaboration, and Interdisciplinary Education: The Schiller Institute Opportunities for Boston College

Athena Vinch • September 24, 2024
“It's really interesting to be able to talk to people from so many different backgrounds and understand those nuances better,” Sehdev said. “And I think a lot of Schiller's programs tend to be like that, because there are so many people from fields like economics, political science, law, and other different fields in the humanities, and then obviously a lot of STEM.”
(Photo Courtesy of Bradley Harrington)

Don’t Want To Walk to the Dining Hall? GrubSwap Will Do It For You.

Juliana Parisi • September 22, 2024
“The biggest issue that we're solving is on-campus delivery sucks,” Harrington said. “It's time-consuming, it's expensive, and it's not optimized for college campuses. We're solving the dining dollars crisis as well. We're able to give students cash back for dining dollars that are soon to expire.”
(Photo Courtesy of Zachary Couzens)

“The Wonder Kid”: BC Senior Zachary Couzens Runs for New York District Assembly

Veronica Pierce • September 15, 2024
“My plan is either Thursday nights or Friday mornings, I’ll take the three hour drive back home, campaign Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and then I’ll either come back Sunday night or early Monday morning,” Couzens said. “And, you know, repeat.”
(Photo Courtesy of Elizabeth McColloch)

McColloch’s New Book Helps College Students ‘Discover What Matters’

Natalie Westermann • September 8, 2024
“I just fell back in love with writing,” McColloch said. “Specifically, I loved being able to go back and think about memories from my past, and write them in really beautiful ways.”
(Photo Courtesy of Sebastian Pucher)

Need an In-Depth Review on a BC Professor? There’s a Website for That.

Juliana Parisi • September 5, 2024
“We basically wanted to make Rate My Professor completely obsolete,” Pucher said. “We wanted to beat Rate My Professor.” 
(Photo Courtesy of Victoria Tucker)

Transforming Children’s Lives: Victoria Tucker’s Career in Adoption and Foster Care

Phoebe Mabuchi • April 25, 2024
“Working with kids just sort of became my passion,” Tucker said. “I started off as a teacher and ended as a social worker.” 
(Photo Courtesy of Kiersten Rock-Torcivia)

A Heart For Charity: Rock-Torcivia’s Nonprofit Gets Defibrillators to Those Who Need Them Most

Spencer Steppe • April 18, 2024
“It’s hard for a teenager to have to stop doing the sport they love … and going through a multitude of procedures, being in a highly competitive academic program, and yet, here she is still saying, ‘What can I do for someone else?’” DePascale said. 
(Trishna Condoor / Heights Staff)

At the John Marshall Project, Dialogue Has No Confines

Veronica Pierce • April 14, 2024
“I think the opportunity for a truly enlightening liberal education begins to appear when students are made aware of this possibility that the ground on which they are walking is not as secure as they thought it was,” DiPasquale said. “To speak to those who have different opinions is—and should be regarded as—a gift.”
(Photo Courtesy of Xingchen Wang)

Isotopes, Nitrogen, and Oceans: BC Professor’s Lab Provides Unique Insight Into Ocean Chemistry

Athena Vinch • April 7, 2024
“My interest spans the entire range of Earth history, nutrient cycling, and exploring the ocean and how it affects the climate system,” Wang said.
(Photo Courtesy of Eamon Coffey)

Blood, Sweat, and Code: BC Sophomores Create Synopto, the Future of Studying

Kate Nuechterlein • April 7, 2024
“To put it in short, Synopto is a study app that not only promotes memorization and helps you study for a test, but also really enforces your understanding of a topic,” Pintchouk said.
(Photo Courtesy of Audrey Smallwood)

Family Legacy and Community Impact: Audrey Smallwood’s Journey With Kitchens for Change

Phoebe Mabuchi • March 21, 2024
“Growing up and witnessing the way [my mother] made people feel with food was something I always looked up to, and it was something that I realized I wanted to emulate in my own way,” Audrey said.  
Load More Stories