Thumbs Up Weirdly Warm Weather – The warmth of the sun, the smell of freshly melted snow soaking into the grass, people wearing long-sleeve t-shirts and light sweaters: it all comes together to make the least seasonal beginning to February we’ve ever seen. It felt like the end of the school year, or the spring…
Thumbs Up Plexapalooza – Some people apparently enjoy things like this. It seems to be a successful, well-attended event. While we don’t exactly understand the appeal, we will acknowledge that there are people in the world who adore the stench of sweat and vodka, who revel in the sardine-like confinement of a gym full of…
Thumbs Up Absentee Ballots – Sometimes we gaze around our classes, listening to our fellow students spout idiotic, badly thought-out half-truths, and realize that these people are going to be able to vote. The kid with the half-shaved head and the nasally voice who preaches moral relativism to a painfully uninterested class is going to…
Thumbs Up The New Stairs – An entire year passed, a year that will live in legend, when students hoping to cross from McElroy Commons to McGuinn Hall had to descend rickety, temporary stairs. The herds of students were uncertain, and their future looked grim. Will there ever be real stairs on this small hill…
With the start of a new semester comes a bevy of options. The entire world is our oyster here at Boston College. Get straight A’s? Read Ulysses? Join a new club? Make a new friend? Prove to the world that your existence matters? It all seems possible in this first week.
Classes are coming to a close and the strangling terror of academic failure is creeping into every aspect of our lives. But there’s also some good stuff going on too!
Thumbs Up O’Neill Plaza Christmas Tree – As you walk across campus during these last two weeks, head held low, tears dripping down your shame-flushed cheeks, knowing you still have three final papers, five tests and two group projects to deal with, it’s nice to see this occasional reminder that Winter Break is just around…
We’re really half way through it now—welcome to November, ladies and gents.
October is drawing to a close, and Halloween is right around the corner.
This week on TU/TD, it’s sunsets you should stick around for, and the quiet kids in your class that you should listen to.
