Posts Tagged ‘Boston College’
This is me writing
Regular readers of Dangerous, Dirty, and Unfun know that in addition to being one of the cleverest and most handsome bloggers on the Internet, I’m also a writer for Boston College Magazine. The Winter 2011 issue just came out, and I’ve got a few stories that I would recommend that you read. Here’s a bit I did about BC’s club hockey team, which in five years went from not existing to being one of the top club teams in the country. Here’s a rundown of a few professors in BC’s Lynch School of Education doing research projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
There’s also a couple non-Timmy stories that are really excellent. This piece is about Solasta, an energy startup founded by a group of BC physicists based on a revolutionary nanoscale solar cell they developed. The company eventually failed, but there are a lot of great lessons about the competing priorities of research scientists and the venture capitalists who fund much of that research. Finally, this is a piece about the research of Martin Summers, a history professor who has studied how mental the mentally ill were classified differently based on their race in hospitals in the 19th century. It’s a great ish, even if you have no interest in anything related to Boston College.
Two Mondays
No Gossip Girl post tonight, precious readers. Sometimes, something more important comes up. It’s rare, but it happens. Tonight is the first night of the Beanpot tournament, and my beloved Boston College Eagles are facing off against their ancient enemies, the terriers of boston university.
I was ready to write this long, poetic essay about the beauty of college hockey and the thrill of rivalry, but the puck just dropped, and you all know how my heart is just a roiling cauldron of hatred for bu. It fuels me.
“To hate like this is to be happy forever”
Sometimes, in this bleak and depressing world we live in, it’s hard to find evidence that there’s justice. You can’t blame people for being skeptical about a benevolent force that’s guiding the universe in a positive direction. The conduct of daily life serves as a constant source of fuel for crises of faith.
But sometimes, every so often, something happens that gives you pause. Something that makes you believe that maybe, just maybe the forces of goodness and light can triumph over everything that is evil and wrong. Sometimes, the universe plays out like it should.
It’s a great day to be an Eagle!