BU Basics

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I'm a rising junior at Boston University, double majoring in advertising in film and TV, And today I'm going to be giving you a basic rundown of all the need to know facts about you. As I mentioned, I am a rising junior and BU. But this is actually going toe only be my second year of school because after my freshman year, I actually transferred from a much smaller college to BU, which was much, much bigger. BU has about 17,000 undergraduate students, and when you add on grad students, that makes about 30,000 people and then take into account the fact that it is in the middle of Boston and you have thousands of more people just walking along the street every single day and you are really probably surrounded with felt like 50 75 maybe even 100,000 people every single day. It can see kind of scary and overwhelming at first, but I promise there are lots of ways to make a large campus like you feel a lot smaller. The key way to make a big school like you feel like a smaller community is to get involved. Joining clubs and extracurriculars is a great way to really find your people and find a small community that makes your school feel like home. I've been able to find my own sense of community at BU by joining a Knock Apollo group on campus, but that is only one of so many diverse options of clubs and extracurriculars that you enjoy. That really helped make again such a gigantic school feel like just a small community, small family, you know, however cheese if you want to get one label. Other thing about BU that helps it feel a bit more small is that the school is actually broken up into lots of smaller individual colleges, for example, as an advertising and film and TV double major, I'm part of the College of Communication, but you also has other colleges, like the College of Arts and Sciences, the Question School of Business College of Fine Arts. Me a lot of school of education development, so many and you being broken up into all these smaller colleges really helps create a lot more consistency with the people you're seeing every single day and the people you're interacting with, because again it breaks down this 17,000 undergrad student body into lots of smaller clusters. The great thing about large schools like BU with qualities, expansive academic offerings, is that it Really? It doesn't matter what you want to do specifically because the school is probably going to have a program for you. If you happen to change your mind, it means probably don't have to transfer it to an entirely different school. You could just change your major within the same school. If you go to a smaller school and you decide after your freshman year that you want to change whatever program you're in, they might not actually have it there, so you might have to actually transfer to an entirely different school. The other great thing about going to such a big school with such diverse academic offerings is diverse student body that comes along with it. You get to meet people from all over the world, all different walks of life, all different passions and interests, and they teach you so many things and help you grow so much as a person, and you really wouldn't be able to get that at a smaller school. I'm sure you've put two and two together at this point, and you realize that in order to have such a large student body, you must have a really big campus. Our campus is stressed out across several miles, interspersed throughout Boston Commonwealth Avenue right alongside with Charles River. In between all abuse classroom buildings, you'll find different restaurants, shops, concert venues really everything that you need right at your fingertips. This is what makes being out of really large school right in the city. It's so convenient because if you go to a smaller school, might have to take a shuttle to, you know, target or some sort of convenience store to get what you need. If you ever need anything when you're at BU, really, anything you could possibly need is right within walking distance. Bu maybe isn't as flashy as some other schools in certain areas, but what our school really pride yourself on is our accident. Our programs are really, really strong, so if you're a terminated by maybe going to a city school or the size of such a big school and you really just want to pursue a certain program? I would say Give it a chance, give it a shot and just go for it because our programs, a lot of them, are some of the best of the best in the country. If you want to learn more about you and life is a college student, feel free to check out my other campus, real videos or if you have any specific questions, you condemn me on Instagram and I'll be sure to answer any questions that you may have. Thank you for watching I call this video is helpful for you and good luck with your college shirts by.