The Heights

Being Relatable and Re-Wearing Underwear

TU/TD • February 3, 2016

Thumbs Up Weirdly Warm Weather - The warmth of the sun, the smell of freshly melted snow soaking into the grass, people wearing long-sleeve t-shirts and light sweaters: it all comes together to make the...

Plexapalooza and the Gasson Bells

TU/TD • January 31, 2016

Thumbs Up Plexapalooza - Some people apparently enjoy things like this. It seems to be a successful, well-attended event. While we don’t exactly understand the appeal, we will acknowledge that there...

Voting and Falling Down Some Stairs

TU/TD • January 27, 2016

Thumbs Up Absentee Ballots - Sometimes we gaze around our classes, listening to our fellow students spout idiotic, badly thought-out half-truths, and realize that these people are going to be able to...

Getting Through Winter with Stairs, Cheese, and Textbooks

TU/TD • January 24, 2016

Thumbs Up The New Stairs - An entire year passed, a year that will live in legend, when students hoping to cross from McElroy Commons to McGuinn Hall had to descend rickety, temporary stairs. The herds...

The Dawn of Winter and Banned Hoverboards

TU/TD • January 21, 2016

With the start of a new semester comes a bevy of options. The entire world is our oyster here at Boston College. Get straight A’s? Read Ulysses? Join a new club? Make a new friend? Prove to the world that your existence matters? It all seems possible in this first week.

TU/TD: The North End and Surreal All-Nighters

TU/TD • December 9, 2015

Classes are coming to a close and the strangling terror of academic failure is creeping into every aspect of our lives. But there's also some good stuff going on too!

TU/TD: Christmas Trees and Cathartic Lint Screens

TU/TD • December 6, 2015

Thumbs Up O’Neill Plaza Christmas Tree - As you walk across campus during these last two weeks, head held low, tears dripping down your shame-flushed cheeks, knowing you still have three final papers,...