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MUN Roommate Needs You To Be Quiet So That They Can Launch A Missile

Campus Culture Dorm Stuff Featured March 30, 2021

“I was the one who got to announce that the projectiles had entered foreign airspace, so I really just needed the dorm quiet for a hot minute.”

LTE: The Rat Can Still Be A Bar If You Day Drink There

Drinking Featured LTE March 16, 2021

I’ve heard about the glory days of 1978, when The Rat was the most bodacious, tubular joint in town to shake your thing and meet some bitchin’ lads and ladies. Legend says the drinking age was 18, that light beer flowed as though a gift from the gods, and... Read more

Honey, I Shrunk Spring Break!

Featured Leahy March 2, 2021

THE BONN STUDIO THEATRE — Every aspiring artist struggles with the elusive beast that is creativity. Where do great ideas come from? How do we wield them and shape them into fully formed movies, paintings, novels? These were exactly the questions going through Seymour Bush’s (MCAS ’21) mind as... Read more

OPINION: Dear White Buddhists

Featured Opinion February 24, 2021

It’s one thing to be a garden-variety, store-brand Asian fetishist, but to make the massive shift from big-tiddy-anime-girls to big belly Buddha is deeply unsettling.

OP-ED: A Perfectly Normal Tuesday

Campus Culture Featured Opinion November 3, 2020

Well, I can’t seem to explain it really — compared to the commotion of most others days so far, today’s shaping up to be about as perfectly ordinary as it gets. Perhaps I should elaborate. My alarm went off at seven, as it usually does. I snoozed it just... Read more

The New England Classic’s Summer Vacation Travel Guide: Chicago

Featured Lists Student Life July 17, 2019

Chicago. The Twindy Cities. From the Sioux for “Italians need not apply,” Chi-na-town is the perfect spot for a surprise summer getaway. With at least four and a half restaurants and a record-108 years without a single Italian in public office, planning a trip to the city can seem... Read more

“Achoo!” Reports Entire Student Body

Featured Student Life October 3, 2017

CHESTNUT HILL — The first fall of crumpled tissues blankets the campus. Droplets of influenza and ragweed are a-floatin’ through the crisp winter air. It’s sneezy season here on the Heights and the noses be drippin’! “Sorry, I’ve had, like, a really bad cough lately,” your red-eyed, inexplicably leaking roommate... Read more

OPINION: There Will Be No Technology Allowed In My Classroom, Except For These Bop-Its

Featured School January 19, 2017

Hello, class. Welcome to your first day of Postcolonial Gender Dynamics In Western Society! As all of you are upperclassmen, I won’t waste time by going over every last sentence on the syllabus—I expect you to have done that on your own time. However, there are a couple of... Read more

Overinvolved Sophomore Finally Busy Enough To Forget Crippling Loneliness

Featured Old Articles Student Life September 12, 2016

“Now I’m only sad right before I go to bed, and that’s only if I’m not too exhausted to fall asleep before I have time to reflect on how unhappy I am!”

The Definitive Guide to BC Freshmen Housing

Featured Freshmen August 3, 2015

Here at Boston College, freshmen housing random assigned by computers can have serious implications on your social life! Let us breakdown what your housing placement means: Upper Congratulations! If you are part of the 60% of the freshmen class that was selected to live on Boston College’s actual campus... Read more