“Too often, as college students, we become fixated on ‘doing.’ We deceive ourselves into believing that our self-worth is achieved through constant activity and movement, forgetting that beneath all the ‘doing,’ we are beings.”
Metro, Column
Learning to Manage Expectations
Assistant Metro Editor Will Batchelor writes about what drew him to a suburban college over his old dream of city college life.
Opinions, Column
An International Perspective at BC
“Though small universities like BC can be very different from foreign universities in cultural and academic aspects, we certainly benefit from the input and knowledge that our visiting students bring with them.”
Featured Column, Metro
Exploring the Expectations of College
Assistant metro editor William Batchelor was recently asked the question “Is college better than you expected, as you expected, or worse than you expected?” Unsettled by the question, Batchelor examines his first year at Boston College.
TU/TD, Blog
Sad Elephants and Existential Questions: TU/TD
It’s hard to not be caught up in everything that takes place in the present. It’s what everyone is doing, so it has to be the only thing that matters, right?
Business, Metro
One Campus at a Time, CollegeVine Simplifies Application Process
Dissatisfied by college counselling in public high schools, Johan Zhang founded Cambridge based startup CollegeVine which offers affordable college admissions guidance online.
Featured Column, Features, Column
Pushing Through the Quarter-Life Crisis
Features editor James Lucey ends his Heights career with a final column about where he’s going next—or at least hopes to.
Opinions, Column
The Importance of College in the Inner City
“A significant amount of Detroit’s population that has lived in the city for years won’t have the chance to fully participate in the city’s emerging meritocratic “brain economy,” in which jobs are limited to those with at least bachelor’s degrees.”
Opinions, Column
Making the Most Out of the New Year
“How can we live this year of college in the best way possible, with little nostalgia for the past and even less fear of the future?”
Featured Column, Column, Opinions
It’s not a Sprint. It’s a Marathon.
“At over $60,000 a year, it’s tough to admit that maybe things could’ve gone better—that maybe you’ve already lost the marathon.”
