Be completely honest with yourself for a minute, when was the last time you participated in a shenanigan? A little tomfoolery? Horseplay? I’m going to go out on a limb and say it’s been a while since you let yourself have fun.
Column, Opinions
“The Pill” at BC: An Important Warning on Side Effects
Let’s talk about safe sex and everything that goes with it. Although there are student organizations on Boston College’s campus doing a great deal of work to support healthy conversations about safe sex, BC refuses to acknowledge their work or provide support of its own through University Health Services (UHS).
Column, Opinions
How to Survive the Lazy River of Recruiting
Break out your blazers, it’s recruiting season baby! For many Boston College sophomores, the time surrounding Bank Week and Finance Week is the most dreaded—and important—part of the year.
Column, Opinions
Life, Flexibility, and the Pursuit of Oak Dressers
So much had refused to go my way. Abroad, internships, friendships, clubs, and oak dressers—they all teamed up against me. Throwing wrenches in my beautifully designed plans.
Opinions, Column
The Heights for the Holidays
It hit me for the first time this week that come the end of the semester, I’d actually be going home—and I felt sick. But, at the same exact time, I’m homesick too. There’s a three-way-tug-of-war among loving where I am, missing home, and also being scared to go back home.
Opinions, Column
Franceschini: Some Thoughts on the Freshman Fifteen™
Despite my body changing, I’m still happy with the way I look, which isn’t something that comes as easily as it sounds. This extra weight that I’ve gained is a reminder that anxieties don’t just disappear. Confidence is fluid, and it will slip away from you if you let it. Feeling good about yourself is a constant process of self-reassurance.
Column, Opinions
Franceschini: A Freshman, Football, and the Pandemic
College football might not be what it’s been for every single freshman class before us. But I wouldn’t trade the memory of watching the game with my floor on a blurry projection on the lounge wall for anything.
Column, Opinions
It’s Definitely Not Pronounced “BAG-el”
“Bay-gull” is the Goldi-locks of the word’s pronunciation. It references bagels’ Eastern European roots while also maintaining the adaptations both the baked good, and the word itself, have made over time. One thing’s for certain: It’s definitely not “bag-el.”
Column, Opinions
Freshman Year, Covid-19 Edition
College is hard. Like, really hard. The freshman experience feels more like the freshman experiment this year, and it’s hard to keep up. College moves at twice the speed that high school does, and no matter how much anyone warns you, nothing will fully prepare you for the takeoff. Navigating Canvas makes me feel like...
