Boston University Top Questions

How important it is to become involved in clubs/organizations. BU is a large school (30k+) with an open campus. It is easy to become isolated/forgotten in the crowd of students. Participating in interst groups is an important way to connect with others.

I wish I had known how important it is to get involved with extracurriculars and how important it is to find a balance.

I wish I had known how much walking I would be doing everyday.

I am starting in the fall, but I wish I had remembered just how much work goes into getting ready for school. All the financial details and papaer work are very important and I think a lot of students forget how much of that there ends up being. It is important to be organized and dedicated even before classes start.

Before I came to this school, I wish I had known what extra curriculars I would want to get into. Boston University is a very large school and sometimes it is easy to be interesting in everything and not have enough time to do one thing in particular. However, the diversity of extra curricular activities makes the school that much better (in my opinion).

Boston is a great place to go to school, but sometimes the transition from living at home to living with roommates can be too much. I wish I knew how to manage my time better as a freshman and that created a physical schedule to balance the time I needed to study and have fun. I also wish I formulated a spending budget at the beginning the year. If I had I probably could've avoided frivolous spending on items that I didn't need or later regretted.

I wish I had known how important it is to make friends freshman year.

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I don't really know...maybe that it's not the newest and renovated school ever. And how the T is sometimes not that reliable.

How big it really is, it can be really overwhelming and lonely at times but after a while its nice not to know everyone on the street or feel obliged to talk to people all the time