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description: Introduction from the AuthorYou are about to embark on an all-inclusive, first-person report on Boston University. If you are reading this introduction, it means that you probably already have some interest in BU, and you were inspired to consider it as an option for furthering your education. It is my job, in the following pages, to give you some insight about BU.So, what is my perspective? I am writing as a recent graduate ( unemployed) from this fine institution, with a double degree in philosophy and psychology from the College of Arts and Sciences. I have lived in Boston, both on and off campus, for the past four years, and have a pretty good idea of the resources—and frustrations —you will stumble upon, assuming that you decide to attend. Unlike many of the post-adolescent, idealistically-oriented cynics I spend most of my time with, I have actually engaged in BU life and academia enough to report back to you in an honest, and even optimistic, fashion. The purpose of the following is to provide you with a fairly entertaining, and hopefully coherent stream of consciousness as I reflect on my college experience. Allow me to elaborate.Boston University has a reputation that generally holds true when considering the students, faculty, and administrative aspects of university life. While the University is a huge community, it is possible and necessary to establish yourself as an individual entity and independently-thinking being, despite the obvious obstacles. For those of you who are hesitant to leave high school behind, you are in good company. I am currently in the position of dealing with the same sort of confusion and instability in prying myself away from college life. To put things in you have nothing to worry about. College will be one of the most dramatic learning experiences of your life, if you allow it to be. This place, both the good and the bad, has played a huge role in my perception of the “real world.”The college is a time during which you exist each day, liberated from the confines of life, while remaining cared for and sheltered on a very necessary level. Considering that college is such a huge transition, choosing a school certainly has undeniable effects on the course of your near and distant future. On the other hand, most universities, especially those offering as large a community as BU, will probably be equally enabling to your self-actualization. Nevertheless, the following information and suggestions should make the overwhelming nature of the process of starting school slightly less paralyzing.Caren M. Walker, AuthorBoston University, College of Arts and Sciences
language: English
title: Boston University: Off the Record - College Prowler
titlecomplete: Boston University: Off the Record - College Prowler
publisher: College Prowler