The Heights

Enjoy the Ride

Scanlon Mellowes • April 29, 2025

“Like I said before, your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.” — Anthony Bourdain I will proudly boast that one of the best habits I adopted over the past year is decentralizing social media from my day—specifically, deleting TikTok and setting strict time limits on other apps. My head feels clearer, my to-do list takes priority, and instead of mindless content consumption, I fill my evenings with journaling, working out, and spending time with friends.

HPV Doesn’t Care if You’re Catholic: Reproductive Autonomy, Health, and Access

Elizabeth Pozniakova • March 9, 2025

No woman has ever benefited from knowing less about her body. Alarmingly, being under-informed can have serious consequences for women biologically. An unsophisticated, high-school-level education on female anatomy and physiology can affect her studies and even her success.

One Last Dose of Teenage Angst

Jaya Gautam • February 11, 2025

About a month ago, I turned 20. This wasn’t sudden—I knew it was coming. It didn’t sneak up from behind or jump out from under my bed. In the back of my mind, there had been a slow countdown to the date that had been in my calendar since Jan. 11, 2005. Still, I wasn’t ready for how weird it would feel to no longer be a teenager.

Balancing Tradition and Change in Otis

Jenny Hotchkiss • February 11, 2025

My best childhood memories are a patchwork of my time spent in Otis Wood Lands, a small community exploding with my family’s history. Over forty years ago, my grandfather and his brother each bought small cabins in Otis, a tiny town in rural Massachusetts.

Go On a Retreat! Change Your Life!

Mary Perez • October 29, 2024

On the other hand, I merely wanted a weekend away from campus and an excuse not to study. I didn't see the point in discussing personal issues with people I’d just met and seeing how the saddest moments in my life stacked up against others’.

Setting the World Ablaze

Mary Perez • September 17, 2024

Fire destroys, so why do the Jesuits tell us to go and set the world aflame? Maybe they just want a new world order where Jesuits reign supreme and everyone has a liberal arts education. Reflecting as a BC senior, however, I believe Saint Ignatius had a less dictatorial image in mind.

The Fruits of My Labor and the Myth of Constant Improvement

Olivia Franceschini • February 5, 2024

There’s even evidence for why reflecting on a past self and predicting our future is such a difficult exercise. While it’s relatively easy to recall our past feelings and recognize the differences between then and now, it’s a much larger struggle to project our own futures.