Escaping Connection

Amelia Glover • April 26, 2026

Many viewers use social media and virtual connections to avoid difficult realities, just as I do at night or as my mother does to connect with me. It’s easy to dismiss these habits as a personal failure of attention. It’s harder to understand how these systems are built to keep us scrolling and why we willingly participate.

The Rebirth of Online Authenticity

Clara Araujo • September 28, 2025

As it turns out, niche content had to be reborn in the stranger corners of the internet. If its return can teach us one thing, it's that people don’t crave perfection in their idols, just authenticity.

U.S. Politics Has a Wu-Tang Problem

Tommy Roche • March 30, 2025

I have tried to conceal my political opinions in my columns, but not anymore. It’s time to talk Wu-Tang. No, I’m not referring to some extremist group that takes its name from the iconic 1990s hip-hop group. I’m talking about how the rise of ironic political disengagement—embodied in a $35 Wu-Tang lawn sign—is killing America.

LinkedIn-sanity

Tommy Roche • December 8, 2024

I have a LinkedIn, and it feels apocalyptic. For those who don’t know, LinkedIn is the social networking website for professional development. Unlike other social media platforms like Facebook or X, LinkedIn unpretentiously admits in its vision statement that it seeks to provide economic opportunity for its users—not social utility.

Mental Health and Coping in the Digital Age

Katie Spillane • April 14, 2024

The mental health conversation is the loudest it’s ever been and everyone has something to say. The internet has revolutionized how openly we talk about mental health, but this revolution was not without its consequences.

Phone Usage: A Gateway to Mindlessness?

Peter Coquillette • November 13, 2023

While it may be entertaining to watch content and multitask, our phone makes us increasingly comfortable with splitting our attention. From walking to eating to brushing our teeth, our phones have wormed their way into every small activity to the point where we cannot be fully present throughout an entire day.

The Trap of the TikTok “Day in the Life”

Jenny Hotchkiss • October 1, 2023

Like many others, I have found myself enthralled with TikTok “day in the life” videos. And it’s not a good habit.

Posts Featuring CJBC, Divestment Removed During EcoPledge Takeover of BC’s Instagram Story

Natalie Arndt • April 25, 2023

When EcoPledge Co-President Maureen Kelly took over the Boston College Instagram story at the Earth Day fair on Friday afternoon, no one gave her any restrictions about what content to post, she said. But when Kelly posted a video of Climate Justice at BC (CJBC) explaining its mission and advocating for BC to divest from fossil fuels, it was taken down immediately, she said.

Romanticizing Life: Just a Trend?

Elise Jarvis • March 26, 2023

In a world where working yourself to exhaustion is respected as part of “the grind,” it is important to create moments of peace.

Saving Instagram, One Swipe at a Time

Emma Caulfield • October 16, 2022

You’ve probably read a dozen articles like this before: “Instagram linked to depression,” “Social media leads to decline in self-esteem,” “Snapchat crushes your soul”—each and every one being more dire than the last. And they usually end with “DELETE SOCIAL MEDIA NOW!” What they fail to recognize is how unrealistic those expectations are, especially as a college student.

Our Free Speech Problem

R. Shep Melnick • January 27, 2022

As Olivia Strong reported in a Heights article last semester, Boston College fared extremely poorly in the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) ranking of free speech on campus—151th...

The Best Advice I Never Took

Cameron Walker • April 3, 2021

A few weeks before moving into college, one of my best friends’ mom gave me a piece of advice that I still kick myself for ignoring: “You should delete social media for a few months, just until you...