Weekly Kickoff: A New Year on the Heights

Photo by Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty ImagesHow is it the end of August already?

Boston College freshmen moved into their dorms on Thursday, shortly followed by the upperclassmen, and now all of those Eagles will be filing back into their classrooms this week. It’s a very familiar time of year, filled with memories of making new friends, reconnecting with old ones, figuring out my new class schedule, and waiting in that terribly long line for my books at the BC bookstore. I’m jealous of all of you who get to experience it once again (or for the first time!). That campus is really a special place for all of us.

And now on Saturday, for the first time in 40 weeks, Boston College football will…