In the past few weeks, I have found myself in numerous conversations where the question was suddenly asked, “What was your favorite part about this year?” Now that the year is winding down, it seems everyone wants to know what our best memories are and which experiences we will remember most. And as students of a Jesuit university, we have been well-trained in the art of reflection.
A common phrase used on campus is “highs and lows.” In group settings like Appalachia and Cura, BC students go around and share their personal “highs and lows” from their day or week. It’s a good way to remember an incredible “high” we experienced or to better understand a particularly challenging “low.” As our year comes to a close, I thought we could all enjoy a review of our “highs and lows.” I asked collegiettes™ from every grade to reflect on their year at BC. Here are their responses to the 2010-2011 year!
LOWS:
The mounds of snow seemed like they would never melt!
- “Having an extra long winter”
- “Sliding to class from upper campus”
- “Eating in Mac so much”
- “Losing the Dustbowl”
- “Missing the time my friend slapped this guy in the face”
- “Construction”
- “Definitely the winter”
- “Getting injured while drunk”
- “Newton to CoRo”
- “Discovering the guy I liked was hooking up with a girl I hate”
- “The rain and snow in April”
- “Being far away during difficult times at home”
- “Getting dumped”
- “GPA took a bit of a hit”
- “Not having a spring… where is it?”
- “Blacking out… a couple times”
- “Losing the hockey playoffs first round”
- “Every time I woke up and realized I had drunkenly devoured Late Night”
- “Not getting James Franco tickets, definite low”
- “Realizing the Hitler housing video was an accurate portrayal of how housing went for me”
- “Living on CoRo”
- “Getting homesick”
- “Not getting into grad school”
- “Meatless Monday”
- “The noise… between Stokes and Gasson, there have not been a lot of peaceful moments during the day”
- “Waiting for cardio machines at the Plex… everyday”
- “Losing to Notre Dame”
- “Kid Cudi’s hour-long break because he blew out the speakers”
- “Getting rejected by UGBC again”
- “Having no air conditioning in this awful humidity”
- “Not making it to the Kid Cudi concert…”
- “Change of Tuscan chicken bread at Eag’s Nest”
- “Running out of my meal plan”
- “When the Quad smelled like vomit from the plants”
- “Being single on Valentine’s Day”
- “When my sibling didn’t get into BC”
- “When the band stopped playing the first down song because we yelled ‘bitch’”
- “Roommate issues”
- “Ice luge campus”
- “Realizing I have to pack up and leave BC in a few weeks”
- “Graduating, leaving BC”
Highs
Marathon Monday is a literal high for the runners, once they reach Mile 21.
For those of us lining Comm Ave, it’s a day full of friends and cheering.
- “Living in 90 on Lower”
- “Meeting amazing friends at BC”
- “Appalachia”
- “Notre Dame game”
- “Definitely Marathon Monday”
- “Kid Cudi concert”
- “Drinking car bombs on St. Patrick’s Day”
- “Seeing Vanilla Ice at Ice Jam”
- “Copious amounts of snow to tackle/play in this winter”
- “Getting interviews for internships I applied for”
- “Beanpot champions”
- “Crazy Dough’s moving in across the street”
- “Exploring new parts of Boston”
- “Christmastime snow”
- “Making new friends this year and keeping the fantastic friendships that I made last year”
- “Getting A’s on papers I worked really hard on”
- “Every meal in Hillside”
- “Seeing Clinton Kelly”
- “Hockey home games”
- “Having sex with a ginger”
- “Raising like $146,000 at Relay”
- “Seeing the flowers finally beginning to bloom”
- “Making new friends on CoRo”
- “Teaching a Splash class”
- “Her Campus BC Launch party”
- “Multiple winter storms that cancelled classes”
- “The Bowl game”
- “Running to downtown Boston”
- “Going on Halftime”
- “Sharing the American tradition of Thanksgiving with a huge dinner for the international exchange students”
- “Going abroad”
- “The random beautiful days in March that made you think spring was nearer… and then it rained/snowed”
- “Halloween… absolute shit show”
- “Iced coffee in Lower”
- “BC to Boston’s Harry Potter at Fenway”
- “Getting on the e-board”
- “Always getting out of class just early enough to beat the rush at Eagle’s Nest”
- “ALC Ball”
- “Free Burrito Day at Chipotle”
- “Realizing I already fulfilled my Cultural Diversity core in a previous class”
- “Going to a Celtics game”
- “First Spring Weekend, with Mile 21 events and the One Week campaign”
- “The last senior football game when the whole fan section stayed after and kept the band playing”
- “Discovering the Veggie burger at Addie’s”
- “Running the marathon”
- “Not getting written up”
- “Arrupe”
- “Turning 21”
- “Finishing my thesis”
Now we can’t wait to return to this beautiful campus next fall!
One of my favorite responses was “The ‘Friday’ song phenomenon… could be a high or a low.” Marathon Monday was, hands down, the most mentioned “high” from BC collegiettes™. I’m inclined to believe it really was the greatest day of the year, rather than just the most recent thing in our memory! The good news is that the list of “highs” was overwhelmingly longer than the “lows”! Some girls simply ignored their “lows” because they had too many good memories to think of.
I hope you enjoyed seeing other BC girls’ “highs and lows,” remembering how much you personally loved and hated the same experiences. I can’t wait to go home for summer, but reading all of these “highs” has me excited for all that 2011-2012 will bring. Please share your own “highs and lows” if they weren’t mentioned!