The Heights

Newton Conservators Host Julie Zickefoose: Author, Painter, and Bluebird Extraordinaire

Laney McAden • March 30, 2025

Julie Zickefoose, a nature book author, presented at the Newton Conservators webinar on Thursday, and discussed songbirds.

No Ordinary Res-olution

Chase Pinette • November 12, 2023

Boston College has a remarkably beautiful campus. While I enjoy many of the spaces this campus offers, there is one place that “does it” for me like no other.

Seasons of Change

Alli Hargrove • April 30, 2023

There are times when change is the best thing for you, whether you think it is or not. Change is life—just look at the trees.

This Is Your Brain on Meditation

Alli Hargrove • April 19, 2023

As it turns out, our minds are capable of so much on their own when there are no prompts or external stimuli. That is, if we give them the space—and time—to do so.

Be One With Nature: Embrace Your Inner Animal and Think Environmentally

Alli Hargrove • February 12, 2023

If you think about it, despite our best attempts to isolate ourselves from nature by hiding behind the walls of our houses and sequestering ourselves in compact cities, we cannot escape the fact that nature trickles into every crevice it can.

Playing Outside: Not a Childish Endeavor

Alli Hargrove • January 29, 2023

If society is going to realize how desolate the world would be without nature, people first need to take the time to recognize how diverse and beautiful the world is with nature.

VRoom VRoom: Oh Listen It’s the Sound of the Simulation Taking Over

Alli Hargrove • September 18, 2022

Virtual reality makes me nauseous. But not like the nauseous I get after challenging my stomach to another night of BC dining—it’s more like the nauseous I get when I feel impending doom...

Thinking Outside the House

Alli Hargrove • April 24, 2022

There is something so ethereal about eating fruit in the sun. Strawberries specifically, in my opinion, but it doesn’t really matter which fruit. I have the biggest—and I cannot emphasize this enough—soft...

A Prescription for Sound

Alli Hargrove • March 20, 2022

I am sure we are all too familiar with the major glitches that affected Spotify a week or two ago. Everyone was kicked out of their accounts, and there were plenty of comical tweets begging for Spotify...

Bench Plaques and Thoreau

Grace Christenson • November 10, 2019

I make myself cry probably once a week. To be clear, it’s not because I’m sad (usually). It’s because I find myself so intensely hilarious that I will laugh until I’m crying profusely at...