Eleanor Sciannella’s column on the Campus School is very well-written and right on target.
Opinions, Column
Let’s Stop Putting People In Boxes
If you want the greatest lesson of all time on the perils of human judgment, watch Legally Blonde.
Opinions, TU/TD
Dec. 12 Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down
Thumbs Up Free coffee – Finals are rough. It’s a universally accepted fact. They really bring out the worst in us. We go from being pleasant, well-adjusted members of the Boston College community to being crazy sleep-deprived balls of stress, anxiety, and whatever we happen to remember from a semester’s worth of classes. Into this…
Opinions, Letters To The Editor
LTE: WRC Works Hard To Address Body Image
As the first member of my family, and one of the only students from my high school, to attend Boston College, I wasn’t sure what to expect coming in for my freshman year. I remember sitting down for the first floor meeting with my RA at the beginning of the year. My RA was enthusiastic…
Opinions, Column
COLUMN: The Trials And Travails Of Abroad
As a senior who studied abroad in the spring of last year, I am reaching that point of the semester where I am starting to feel nostalgic for my time abroad, and with that nostalgia comes a memory of the anticipation and nervousness I felt around this time just a year ago.
Opinions, Column
COLUMN: Coming To Understand Humility
“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.” So wrote William Shakespeare, and in addition, unknowingly gave license for people to indulge in centuries of arrogance and egotism.
Opinions, Column
Deck The Halls For The Holidays
Even if you have a single room and are the only one who will ever see it, a successful Boston College campus requires everyone to have the Christmas spirit.
Opinions, TU/TD
Dec. 9 Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down
Thumbs Up Christmas tree lighting – Well, it’s officially that time of year again. Thanksgiving has come and gone and now it is officially okay to start playing Christmas music. Yes, we know that some people have been playing Christmas music since mid-November, but we at TU/TD firmly believe in waiting until after we give…
Column
News, Drugs, And A Life Of Love
I tell people all the time that The Heights is like a drug. It’s like Tylenol or antibiotics-it fixes what hurts.
News, Letters To The Editor
LTE: BC Loses By Closing Campus School
A friend of mine, on his first visit to Boston College, said that the place resembled a kind of academic “eugenics camp”-filled with healthy, eager, gifted, energetic, well-scrubbed, “beautiful” people. And my friend had a point; there is a lot of obvious beauty, health, and energy on display here. But when I think about what’s…
