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Support Cage Free Eggs at BC
My name is Kat Kavner and I’m the president of Real Food BC. Our mission on campus is to get more sustainable, fairly-traded, local, healthy food in the dining halls as well as to provide education to...
View ArticleSchrodinger’s Cat
One of the most famous gedankens (thought experiments) is that of schrodinger and his cat. The experiment is motivated by the intriguing characteristics of observation in quantum mechanics. What makes...
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To Be a Freshman (Again)
A thought occurred to me the other day during class in a building I had grown accustomed to over the past four years: I’ll be a freshman again next year. For many that reach this point, school appears...
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The Midcollege Crisis: Yours, Mine, Ours
Time is a tricky little devil. This morning, while eating breakfast at my parents’ kitchen counter, I came to a couple of shocking realizations. I’m just as far from high school graduation as I am...
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The Cult of Smiling
Last summer I worked at a taco stand in an amusement park, and I can’t count the number of times that somebody (customer, manager, co-worker even) commented on my apparent misery. I greeted customers...
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Lessons Learned from Giants
One of the first things I learned after being on a whale research boat for a mere hour was that those creatures have horrible breath. The putrid smell comes without warning and hits you with full...
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Privilege and the BC Stereotype
“Honestly, as someone who falls into most of the neutral terms Thais listed such as ‘preppy, loves Chobani Greek yogurt, upper-class, frequents the Plex, wears Lululemon, J. Crew and Tory Burch’, I’ll...
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“We Are Not Radicals”: Bill McKibben & the Importance of Environmental Awareness
Last night, a jam-packed McGuinn 121 had the privilege of listening to a talk given by Bill McKibben, an American journalist, writer, environmentalist, and activist. McKibben came to speak as part of...
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Love Your Body Week: Fat Talk
We’ve all done it. “Ugh. I am SO fat.” “No! You’re beautiful!” “No seriously, LOOK at me.” “You? Look at me.” “You look great!” “Are you kidding me? I had White Mountain today!” “Do you want to start...
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Technology That Rocks: iTunes Radio
Free music has become the norm around the Internet in the last couple years. There’s Spotify, 8tracks, and Pandora: all applications and websites that are available to use free of charge, where you can...
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Hocus Pocus: The Strange (But Real) Magic of New Years
Lucky for you, I’m not writing another article suggesting that you do something drastic like quit your job and travel to Bali or take up painting and ukulele lessons even though you’re more of a math...
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A Case Against Random Acts of Kindness
Random acts of kindness are truly beautiful. One Christmas Day a few years ago, a stranger paid for my breakfast, and I felt the kind of warmth that comes in response to a reminder that humanity is,...
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UGBC Elections: The Case for Experience
Note: This article solely represents the views and opinions of the author, who does not speak for the whole of The Rock at Boston College. I was always taught, from a young age, that politics was a...
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Look, Ma, I Got Arrested!
Everyone was buzzing. It was finally Friday night, and I was sitting among a relieved and excited group of friends in Lower. We had made it to the eve of Spring Break, and now we were going to be able...
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Our E-Board Rocks: Meet Kate!
In this summer’s People Who Rock series, we’re getting to know the faces behind The Rock—our editorial board! This week, it’s our Chief Content Coordinator, Kate! She’s our fearless leader, one of our...
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SNL Recap: 40.7 “Cameron Diaz / Mark Ronson & Bruno Mars”
Well, this show pretty much went as we expected it to go. Cameron Diaz returned for her fourth stint hosting SNL and delivered a perfectly adequate performance. Sure, it had a few good sketches, but...
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Own Your Story
It’s only been six minutes since Kevin Breel concluded his speech but somehow those 360 seconds tempt to erase the ideas I developed during the past hour. My computer screen blurs as my mind screams to...
View ArticleChange in the Wrong Direction: Reviewing the Safe Campus Act
Earlier this week, former Senator Trent Lott (R – Miss.) was hired by a group of national fraternity organizations working together to pass the Safe Campus Act, a bill proposed over the summer that...
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Climate Action Speaks Louder Than Words
This year could be pivotal in the histories of both modern global society and Boston College. It might prove as the beginning of when the majority of people around the world and in the BC community...
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LTE: Refugee Health
I spend my Fridays performing PTSD and depression scales with refugees and asylum seekers at the Center for Refugee Health at Boston Medical Center (BCRHHR). My first intake shook me to the core. It...
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