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…
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Getting Through Winter with Stairs, Cheese, and Textbooks
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…
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The Dawn of Winter and Banned Hoverboards
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.
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TU/TD: The North End and Surreal All-Nighters
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!
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TU/TD: Christmas Trees and Cathartic Lint Screens
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…
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TU/TD: Welcome To November
We’re really half way through it now—welcome to November, ladies and gents.
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TU/TD: Halloween Weekend
October is drawing to a close, and Halloween is right around the corner.
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TU/TD: October Is Rolling
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.
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TU/TD: Clean Grass and Football Blowouts
Another week on The Heights brings a too-good-to-be-enjoyable football victory and more great weather.
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TU/TD: Second Week, Rough Week
Second week’s not always going to be the best week back on campus, but at least the weekend is one day closer.
