Hello, my name is Anna.
I'm a sophomore here at BU.
Today I'm gonna be taking you on a day in my life.
I'm also gonna be talking about how to make friends in college and
how to find your place at BU.
So if you're interested in that, keep on watching
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It's 12:06pm right now, my next class is at 1:30.
Both of my classes today are remote.
So I think we're gonna go to the library.
This is my roommate, by the way.
>> Hi. >> Take two.
>> Hi.
[LAUGH] I'm Lilli.
I'm Anna's roommate.
>> Now it is time for breakfast.
There's one more pickle.
>> There's one more.
>> Can I eat it?
>> You can eat it.
I wanna Star Market and I got Jimmy Dean delights English muffins.
We don't have any plates.
So I've been using
the microwave plate.
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I had a certain vision of college before I came,
that I was gonna find all my best friends the first week,
that everything was gonna work out for me very, very quickly, that I was gonna
know exactly what I wanted to do in the future in my first semester of college.
I didn't really think about things turning out any other way.
And let's just say they did turn out a very different way.
It took me about a year to completely adjust to being at BU and
in college in general.
But now that I've adjusted, I'm the happiest I've ever been.
So I want to talk about kind of like the process of me finding my place at BU and
adjusting.
Basically, when I came into college, I only pretty much knew my roommate.
It's actually the only friendship from freshman year that lasted for me.
So I just wanted her to come in and we're gonna talk about how we met and
all of that.
>> Hi. >> Thanks for joining.
>> Thank you for having me.
>> Yeah, no problem.
>> Honestly.
>> So we met on the BU roommate finding system.
>> She found me.
And then I messaged her because I saw she was Russian.
So I said, hey girl, I'm Russian too and
basically we started talking on, [LAUGH] >> She said, hey girl.
>> Hey girl, and that was like the winning sentence, right there.
>> Yeah, boom. >> I've never said that in my life,
and I thought.
>> I don't know what pushed you to say that.
>> I thought Anna was gonna love that.
[LAUGH] >> [LAUGH] Anna loved that, so.
>> So then we started DMing on Instagram, we didn't text and then we were like,
I was like, I don't know how this is gonna work out and it worked out.
>> It worked out.
>> We came to our freshman year,
not knowing anybody and it was very difficult to make friends,
especially BU is a great school, love it here, but it is a very big school.
There's a lot of people.
It's nice to have a roommate to stick with, throughout your freshman year,
especially because it's gonna be an adjustment to go to college and
that's all new for you.
So it's really nice to have someone by your side.
And then you'll eventually grow and make new friends and meet new people.
>> Even if you're not the best of friends,
it's still nice to have someone there who's going through it all with you.
[LAUGH] That's how we met and
I'm just gonna talk about what happened from that point on, for me.
I'm just going to scooch over here.
>> Okay, I'm gonna go to Starbucks.
>> Let's picture this, I meet Lilli,
now I know a total of two people because I knew this other girl from orientation.
And I'm like, it's okay, because tomorrow I'm gonna meet 50 new best friends.
And they're all gonna be at my wedding one day and it's gonna be amazing and perfect.
So that didn't happen.
But what did end up happening was I met a group of people.
We become friends.
We go out on the weekends together.
We stick together because we're all freshmen, we're all new.
What ended up happening is something that's very,
very normal in college that you should probably expect coming to college,
which is you're gonna make friends your freshman year.
And chances are you're not gonna actually end up staying,
friends with them throughout all of college.
Once you start meeting more and more people,
you kind of get to find people who you are maybe more compatible with as friends.
We were a friend group but we didn't really know anyone else, but for the time
being, we had a good time and I'm glad that I met them, but I still felt really,
really lonely all the time, something just didn't feel right to me.
I didn't feel like I had found my place and my people at BU, and
I honestly clearly remember thinking that I would never ever find that, and
that was a really scary thought because I had dreamed about college for so long.
And as I said before,
I had this really specific vision of what I wanted college to be like for me.
We're gonna stop the story here.
And I'm actually gonna meet up with my friends later and
we're gonna talk about how we all met.
So let's go back to the vlog.
And I'll see you later.
I don't have that much work today because I did a lot yesterday.
So I need to go to CVS and pick up a prescription and Walgreens,
we're gonna go to Newberry.
Whatever, you don't care.
I'll just show you.
>> They care. They care.
>> Okay. [LAUGH]
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>> Hi, my name is Neytra.
I'm a sophomore and I'm a business major.
Okay. >> Hi, I'm Amelia.
I'm a sophomore and I'm majoring in cell biogenetics and minoring in sociology.
>> Hi, I'm Avery.
I'm a sophomore.
I'm majoring in bio CMG, same as Amelia, and minoring in psychology.
>> I'm Lilli I was already introduced.
[LAUGH] I'm a Sophomore and I'm an econ major pre-med.
>> I'm switching into a business major and I'm minoring in psychology.
We're just gonna talk about like how we met, and like how we think the best
way is to make friends and find your place in college or in BU specifically.
>> Avery and I met during orientation and then like throughout freshman year,
we were, we hung out sometimes.
Anna, me and Avery we were all in the same chem class, so
we would work out together after chem.
We got closer that way and then, >> Shout out Abrahams.
I know Amelia and Naytra because they were both on my floor.
>> We are roommates.
>> We are roommates. >> One good way to find friends is
orientation.
>> Yeah. And
also just going on your floor freshman year.
Try to just meet as many people as possible in your building.
>> Small classes are great, just like all my small classes I've made a friend or
two just because it's a small class and you end up talking everyone.
>> And also meet people through FYSOP.
>> Yeah, so when I was a freshman, I did the first year student outreach project.
It's basically you come to BU a week before move in and
you do community service for the week.
And you have a really small group of ten people and
you actually get really close with them.
>> I feel like,
it's very different now with COVID with the next freshman class coming in,
I'm trying to think like how they could meet people since it's like all online.
>> FYSOP is off, so like virtual.
>> And you can also like join clubs, they meet virtually now and
you can also rush, virtually we did that.
Yeah, we both dropped but we.
>> [LAUGH] >> We still recommend that like,
if you're thinking about it, you should do it,
because it was still good practice to like, talk to new people.
Drew do you want introduce yourself?
>> I'm Drew. I don't go to BU.
>> Drew and I are camp friends, so.
>> Yeah. That's how we that's how we met.
>> That's how we know Drew.
>> And Drew had it...since your school has been online so far.
How do you meet friends during COVID in college?
>> Well a lot of the time like for me when I was accepted, everyone made Facebook
group chats, and Snapchat, and Instagram, everyone was just finding everyone.
>> You can also meet people at your job.
So if you have a work study job.
>> Yeah.
>> If you work at a place with a lot of other people, or go to splash.
>> Yeah go to splash.
>> Splash is just like a giant club fair, so you could go to splash and
just like mass sign up for clubs.
>> Clubs are a really good way to make friends.
If you become active in clubs you will become friends with people.
>> There's also hella schools in Boston.
>> There are so many schools.
>> You don't only have to have friends at BU.
>> Yeah >> Yeah.
>> You'll meet people from other schools.
>> Yeah. >> And that's sometimes even more fun.
>> Yeah, like me.
>> Yeah. >> You get
to, >> Yeah.
>> [LAUGH] >> Also, give everyone a chance.
If you think you don't wanna be friends with them, just try, yeah, I was scared.
>> You were scared?
>> She thought I was weird.
>> No, I thought you were quiet.
>> I just like have this thing where I just can't talk to people.
>> Yeah and she made a lot of friends.
>> Look at me. I literally can't talk to people.
>> You have be yourself too because I feel like a lot of people, first semester.
>> [CROSSTALK] >> Like first semester a lot of people
are projecting a personality that they think other people are gonna like more,
but if you do that you will end up with the wrong people that only like
that personality for you.
So you should really just be genuine because the right people are gonna
love you.
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>> So that's the end of this video.
Thank you so much for watching.
I hope you enjoyed.
I just want to end this and say that, if you come to college with a certain set of
expectations and things aren't falling into place as quickly as you thought,
that is perfectly normal, take it from me.
Everyone has a different experience.
Everything doesn't have to fall into place the first week and that's perfectly okay
and it does not mean that you're not gonna have a good college experience.
I just wanted to say that I hope you enjoyed this video.
Bye.