Hi everyone, my name is Kim.
I am a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences studying psychology and
today I'm gonna take over the Instagram to show you a day in my life while completing
online classes from home.
So being an RA is really fun you get to work with an amazing group of people,
some of my best friends that I've made at BU I made in residence life this year, so
that has been really fun.
The main duties of the role just consists of helping residents and
being there for them and
also building a sense of community in the building that you live in with events.
So you really get to know the residents around you and
you can help them when they need assistance.
So getting involved with transition to BU is super easy,
you can follow us on Instagram and Facebook at Transition to BU.
We currently have mentor applications out and
then we will have applications to be event mentee out very soon.
As a mentor you help new transfer students adjust to life at BU and
you're there to answer their questions.
As a mentee you sign up to get a mentor so
that you have somebody who can be there for you and show you around BU and
then we also hosted events for nutrients for students to get to know each other
So I really like the psychology major at BU, they have a wide variety of classes.
And I think that they are interactive, particularly with the discussion sections
you break down into a really small group of people, and
you can ask individualized questions and get a lot of really long answers.
On top of that, one thing that I really like about the major is at
BU it's psychological and brain sciences.
So they incorporate the psychology and the neuroscience classes into
the same major they're cross-registered, so you can take both.
And I have taken a lot of the psychology and neuroscience cross-registered classes
cuz I just find that those are really interesting.
And I'm actually in three of those right now, so you'll see a little bit of them
later today, but I think that the major is really well-rounded and well develope
For me BU does not feel as large as it is, I think when you first get there it
feels really big, and it can kind of be overwhelming, but once I got in,
kind of got more adjusted, made some friends it felt really small.
Once you find the things that you enjoy, and you are taking classes that you're
interested in, so you like your major, and you start to see the same people.
It is really easy to find your niche and you'll notice that you
start being able to say, hi, to people on the sidewalk and things like that.
I know for dining plans, it really depends on where you live, people who live in
Warren Towers or the towers in west, they really like to have the dining plans that
have more swipes because there's a dining hall in those buildings.
For me because I lived in South I had either the 250 or the 330 and
it was half dining points have meal swipes, so
I could kinda more evenly pick and choose where I wanted to go.
But I also used a lot of my dining points
at the Starbucks on campus instead of actual food, so maybe allocate your
points a little bit better than I did, but that is an option you can do as well.
It wasn't hard, I went to my advisor really early on when I got to BU and
she helped me work it into my schedule.
So that's my biggest piece of advice as a transfer student,
go to your advisor early, and they'll tell you everything that you can fit in,
and it's usually more than you think.
I know a lot of transfer students with minors join TTBU number one,
of course, two, go to Splash that's the activities fair and then, three,
just go to anything on campus, say yes to everything.
There's so many things particularly in the fall just take advantage and
get involved and meet people.
My favorite psychology class that I've taken is drugs and
behavior PS 333 with Professor Kane, and then a close second
is memory systems of the brain with Professor Ramirez which I take right now.
For me I tried to clump the work, so I would do classes for my minor in the same
couple of semesters and then class for my major in the same couple of semesters.
So that I'm either doing psych or international relations, and
that's my balance the workload.
The best piece of advice of any BU is to focus on doing a few things that you like
and you're really passionate about.
Then having a resume a mile long with things that you don't care as much about
anything it really shows through when you love what you do and
you're really invested in it.
I loved living in South Campus because it was pretty quiet but
it was still really close to everything that I needed to get to at BU.
And then it was also really close towards the rest of Boston so
it really feels like you're living on your own when you live in South, which I loved.
So the transfer process really is different person to person but
in general what happens is you apply to transfer and you have to get your
syllabi from your old teachers at your old school and send them to BU.
Once you get in, you get accepted, then you go to transfer orientation which for
me was in the middle of July, and you get a credit evaluation report
of all the credits from your old school that are transferring over.
And then you also fill out things, the roommate preference forms they can match
you up with a roommate and everything like that.
And then you can come in and get started, I started in the fall, so
I just came in at the beginning of the fall semester with everybody else.
I got super lucky, I did random roommates and
I became best friends with them they are still some of my best friends to this day,
and they helped me really socially acclimate to the university.
And then as I said a little bit earlier, I went to my advisor really early on and
got all my credits sorted out and what classes I should take an academic
path figure out so I felt a lot better after that.
So I recommend going to your advisor early as a transfer student it smooth
things out.
I definitely had an adjustment period academically first semester, just getting
used to the higher expectations was extremely challenging for me.
And I think most people that go to BU do have that adjustment period and
then ever since then I've been totally fine but first semester was difficult
All right everyone, that's all for tonight, if you have any more questions,
please feel free to message me on my personal Instagram @Kim 0345.
Have a good night, bye