Spring has always carried a sense of new beginnings for me, so I always look forward to it. My fondest memories of spring are not necessarily the big moments, though. It is the small changes that do not significantly alter my schedule or my habits that impact me most. The birds in the morning that…
The Break That Saved Us All
“I’m just so done, I want this semester to be over,” is a phrase that has been echoing across campus since March. It’s like it became the slogan of the first half of 2021 at Boston College—the constant cry for help that we are all “so done.” I think it’s safe to say that while…
Girardot: BC and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year
Columnist Doug Girardot writes that in their reopening rhetoric, BC officials did everything in their effort to downplay the realities of college life in a pandemic. The flurry of summer emails students received in their inboxes and the maroon and gold technocratic signage littered throughout campus have suggested a conditional promise of normalcy: If you do all these things, then we can have school just like usual. But this is a dangerously fantastical apodosis.
Nearly 200 Conversations Later, Lean On Me Reaches One Year at BC
The Boston College chapter of Lean on Me, the peer-to-peer texting mental health support network, has hosted nearly 200 conversations since its launch last year.
University Counseling Services Expands to Newton Campus
Boston College University Counseling Services began offering individual counseling and same-day consultation services at the Newton Campus on March 19
Solomon Shares Experience with Depression, Anxiety
Award-winning novelist and lecturer Andrew Solomon shared an account of his experiences with depression and anxiety in “Depression: The Secret We Share.”
MIT’s ‘Lean on Me’ to Launch at BC Next Year
Lean on Me—an anonymous student-to-student texting service—will be launching at Boston College this January. The service originated at MIT when, after a string of suicides at the university, a group of students decided to create something to support student mental health.
Stauber Pushes for Mental Health Awareness
Ashley Stauber, this year’s chair of the Undergraduate Government of Boston College’s Mental Health Committee and MCAS ’20, has prepared a two-pronged agenda: She’s aiming to both raise awareness about mental health issues and alleviate stress for students.
Differentiating Success From Happiness
“To uphold the expectation that one should be always happy is a disservice and an injustice to yourself.”
Toni Blackman Bridges Hip Hop Cypher and Community
In an interactive event, the first ambassador of hip hop to the U.S. State Department Toni Blackman led students in an engaging discussion about mental health in the music industry.