The Heights

Growing Up and Growing Out

Makayla Hickey • September 24, 2023

If you had asked me a year ago to define what home meant to me, I would tell you it was the winding back roads that I spent endless hours driving down with my best friends.

A Letter to My Freshman Year Self: Senior Year, Post-COVID Edition

Olivia Franceschini • September 19, 2023

When you’re a freshman, everything is new, everything is exciting, and everything is a little bit scary. The laundry room is overwhelming. Canvas is confusing. Distractions (and emails) are everywhere. Just ask freshman year me.

Hello, Heights!

Pat Connell • September 17, 2023

There is no harm in just simply saying hi. You actually never know if it just might make somebody’s day. So, start greeting people this semester.

Not All RAs Are Created Equal

Mary Perez • September 17, 2023

I aim to point out problems involving BC’s Residential Life so the University can understand the frustrations RAs on campus face.

Learning To Embrace the Extremes of Change

Pat Connell • September 10, 2023

I have always been an extremist. In my opinions, beliefs, and actions, I have long thought that it’s all or nothing. I can’t semi-like brussels sprouts. I either like to eat them or I don’t.

Giving Up and When To Do It

Matthew Ablondi • July 23, 2023

Never giving up is an idea that is culturally reinforced in music, movies, and our education system. But I’m here to tell you that giving up is great.

Scripting Your Way Out of the Sophomore Slump

Alexa Piedra • July 8, 2023

We were one-fourth of the year in, and your plans either went to shit or had been semi-successful so far. If you’re like me, you lost some steam.

One Hour to Midnight

Joseph Baldwin • May 7, 2023

With pressure mounting on Congress from the White House and the private sector to avert this crisis, McCarthy unveiled his plan—the “Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023”—which would raise the debt ceiling enough for one year in exchange for measures designed to reduce the deficit.

April Showers, May Flowers, and New Chapters

Makayla Hickey • May 3, 2023

Spring is bittersweet. It marks the end of our academic year and the last few weeks with college friends, but it also symbolizes the turning of a new chapter.

Seasons of Change

Alli Hargrove • April 30, 2023

There are times when change is the best thing for you, whether you think it is or not. Change is life—just look at the trees.

How the Supreme Court Might Endanger Diversity at BC

Elise Jarvis • April 30, 2023

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority is setting itself up to overturn affirmative action in college admissions this year. Without it, racial diversity in higher education will be permanently damaged—unless Boston College and other top universities radically change their admissions selection criteria.

Somebody Call 911, BC’s Shawties Have Left the Dance Floor

Olivia Franceschini • April 30, 2023

There are probably many reasons why Eagles aren’t dancing at parties, but I have two running theories for the phenomenon.