By: Caroline Kirkwood
City Year gives recent grads the chance to volunteer in low-income schools for one year before they begin their careers.
Column, Opinions
Watching Us Watch ’12 Years A Slave’
By: Nate Fisher
Steve McQueen leapt up and down like a punk rocker when he won Best Picture. “I hate that guy,” I said. And so another awards season came and went. It was a foregone conclusion, really. Prettified movies about “important” subjects are eternal shoo-ins for Academy Awards.
Column, Opinions
Why Do Investment Banking?
Many students jump right into finance jobs, such as those with investment banks, without stopping to consider the social use of their jobs and their own personal satisfaction. Before juniors and seniors commit to 80-plus hour work weeks, they should step back and ask a few questions of themselves.
News, Column
A Hub of Kinship
By: Adriana Mariella
Boston has long been known as an Irish city. But, however much we identify it as such, we know that Boston is not really the homogenous place it’s marketed as-it’s home to an ever-changing, ethnically diverse population of non-Irish, but nonetheless true and proud Bostonians.
Opinions, Column
Live In NYC At Least Once
By: Mary Kate Nolan
While most Boston College students choose to take internships in Boston, many want a change of scenery and move to America’s most famous metropolis, just four hours south. Although New York City may be intimidating, it is my belief that every American should live in the city for some portion of his or her life.
Column, News
A Delicate Balance Between Ship And Port, Beauty And Suffering
By: Alex Gaynor
In our lives, we are frequently given the choice to make our world small or extremely vast, and each mindset comes with its own set of blessings and challenges.
Column, Opinions
The Reasons For Service
By: Patrick Angiolillo
With everyone returning to campus from Spring Break, I have already gotten word of the many service trips BC students went on during the break. Volunteering today has, however, become just a part of what many people do to get into college, to put on a resume, or to stand out as an applicant to a program or for an award. This attitude is deeply problematic.
Column, Opinions
Reflections On Appa
By: Emma Vitale
I thought I was strong, that I could avoid it, that it wouldn’t affect me the way it has affected people in the past. But it hit me the moment I embarked on the 12-hour bus ride down to Virginia and has grown deeper every day-I’ve got the Appa high.
Column, Opinions
Another Way To Spend Spring Break
By: Jovani Hernandez
Boston College students are expected to be “men and women for others,” but through how many students are St. Ignatius of Loyola’s beliefs actually manifested?
