Lowell was busy preparing to move out of his dorm room the Sunday before commencement. By then he had been packing for a full two days and most of his things were packed, but the progress slowed the more he plowed ahead. Every summer since his first, he rented a storage room to store his
The drive on the local streets proved treacherous as Lowell's concentration drifted.
Lowell realized he didn't know how to cope with Lance's death, or rather, how to feel about it. Shock over the suddenness? Confusion over not knowing the how? Anger over the why? Emptiness in a void he felt? Dealing with emotions were never his
Classes in the history department were mostly held in McGuinn Hall, halfway up the hill that constitutes the main campus of Boston College. The story goes that the president who moved the school to Chestnut Hill from downtown Boston sought inspiration from John Winthrop's vision of Boston as a "City Upon a Hill" for the
The cell phone vibrated in the pocket, but Michael Lowell ignored it and tried to remain attentive. The professor of the class, The Civil War and the American Education System, was renowned for his aversion to technology. He banned all note taking on computers and required the students to turn off their cellphones during class.