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My name is And I just got back from the hospital with good news.
Your healing a little bit more.
>> Okay. >> Look at this see.
>> Yeah. >> I fractured my elbow two months ago.
>> So there definitely is a break in the bone there.
>> And today I finally got to throw out to sleep.
Go, >> I enjoyed that.
So it ended up not being super serious, no surgery required.
But fracturing my elbow definitely got me thinking in addition to the elbows, so
many things this year have been unexpected.
I mean, we didn't expect to be wearing these masks, and
I didn't expect to have a mullet right now.
>> It's college.
So without further ado, this video is going to be about all the big
things that are expected coming into college and how it actually turned out.
The first thing I wanna talk about is class coming into the U classes.
Definitely the thing I was most nervous about.
>> I'm in the College of Communication here at the U but
I haven't actually been inside much because most of my classes are online.
I'm definitely super excited to have more classes inside in the coming years.
But honestly just chilling out here in the calm lawn is pretty sweet too.
So most of my classes are online, but my professors have done a really good job
with that and I'm definitely learning a lot.
So classes were one of the things I was most nervous about coming to be you.
And it turns out it's just one of those things that once you're actually here.
It's not that bad.
So if you're starting college and you're nervous about the classes, it's normal but
just know you got in there for a reason and you can definitely be successful.
The next thing I want to talk about is food.
You know, a lot of people make jokes about picking a school based on how good
the food is, and when I hear that, I just think
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it's probably a good thing to base it off if you're gonna be in there every day.
I wouldn't say I chose BU because of the food, but
my expectations were definitely high after seeing Instagram posts like this.
My friend Nate rates the dining hall every time we go, so I figured now would be
a good time to head over to his room and ask him the big question.
We're talking about the dining hall.
I got your the experts I gotta ask you out of 10, what are we give it?.
>> I would say seven and a half.
But since daily mac and cheese became a thing and
we're gonna have to give it an 8.8.
>> You heard it here first 8.8 from Nate Just say that for the video.
>> No, >> [LAUGH] In all seriousness,
the dining hall really is pretty good here and with COVID you get takeout
containers so you can pretty much take as much as you want back to your room.
The third expectation I want to talk about is the city school reputation.
When I was visiting colleges, I was touring mostly rural campuses.
So be you kind of stood out, >> As the city school I guess,
I guess because it was one of the only ones in that city school category.
I was kind of uncertain about what that meant.
>> So bu definitely is a city school.
But that's turned out to mean something that I didn't initially expect.
So when I first heard city school I envision the city of Boston and
then be you buildings just kind of sprinkled throughout
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there's much
more of a campus feel than I first imagined.
And especially for me here at West campus We have this really great
kind of carved out portion of the city that is just the you.
So I'm here at Nickerson field, which is basically the track and
field that West Campus centers around.
And I wanna give you a little bit of a better sense of the campus feel
here at West Campus.
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So as you just saw, we have a pretty awesome setup here on West Campus.
Personally, I live here and a lot of other freshmen live here.
The three dorms behind me are Claflin Hall, sleeper Hall and rich Hall.
A lot of freshmen and sophomores live in those buildings,
including myself, man over here we have the famous Stevie.
Stevie is where I think I'll be living Next year and it's just I mean, come on.
It's really nice.
Plus it has a sick view from the top.
>> Everybody says Andrew, we're here in 26 Ford studio,
where you can study or hang out, do whatever you want.
Over here we are Cambridge.
Right now here is Commonwealth Avenue.
Are you gonna be us campus around here, Fenway just a beautiful view of the city.
>> Thanks for the clip trap.
It's pretty empty right now.
But when it's warmer out, there's tonnes of people out here and
the vibes are really good.
I'm on the track and cross country team and
we come out here a lot to play games on the turf.
I love it here on West but
it'd be crazy if I didn't also show you where the majority of the US campuse is
Calm app so calm AV is where the main campus for bu is.
And buildings run for about a mile down on either side.
There's restaurants and places like Target mixed in but
it's still really feels like you're on a campus.
The campus is really long but there are a lot of ways to get around.
You can use the T There are bike lanes on either side or
you can do my personal favorite way of getting around.
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Running, I had to work that in somehow.
So overall I feel like BU has a great mix of campus feel and
access to one of the coolest cities in the world.
Minus the sports teams.
Finally, I want to talk about friends.
I think a lot of people don't know what to expect when they're going to college about
how they're going to make friends.
And I was certainly in that group.
If you have an awesome roommate, there's your first read right there.
>> It's cool having a roommate as a vlogger, too.
Thank you.
Luckily for me, I'm on the cross country and
track team which has really helped in high school all my friends.
Were pretty much on the track team as well.
And that was definitely a big reason why I wanted to continue the sport in college.
So I think the takeaway from that doesn't have to be a sport, but
if you can involve yourself in any kind of club or activity at college,
it's really gonna help you just get started with that for in group.
This year, it's been so
important because we don't really like to branch out that much during COVID.
So we've really hung out a lot as just the team.
So I don't know of there's such a thing as a friend making expert.
But if there is, I think l is a pretty good candidate.
This is Ella Chanel.
She's a very good friend of mine met her like the first week of school.
She's, she's on the girls team.
So I feel like if anybody has any good tips for how to make friends in college,
I feel like you'd have some good tips.
>> Yeah, I mean like I would say just like Talk to as many people as you can talk to
people in the elevator, talk to people in the cafeteria,
especially freshman year like people want to meet other people.
So I feel like going out of your way and
talking to someone like will make a big difference, especially on a team.
I feel like that's how I made a lot of my friends but
I also made a lot of my friends like on the floor like just In the bathrooms
>> It's always the weirdest places but
I like that you brought up the elevator because so many people are just like
riding an elevator and you like get their Snapchat or something.
Yeah, there you go.>> It's better than the awkward silence.
No Yeah, [LAUGH] Much better.
Thank you Will.
>> So it turns out a lot of the things I was nervous about coming into college
turned out being better than expected.
Now that being said,
there have been a lot of things this year that have not been ideal.
When you think of college you think of large gatherings you think of sports
games.
Like I said, I won't be rooting for the Boston team.
So I'll still go You think of concerts, I'll be going to those and No.
stones are still rolling.
So let's let's wrap it up COVID because I don't know how much
longer it's gonna last.
But yeah, all these things have been canceled hasn't been ideal at all.
But there's this great quote and I don't know who said it.
The quote is life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
My freshman year has been awesome.
Despite all of the things that could have made it not awesome.
My high school coach Coach to falaschi always said control what you can control.
There have been a lot of things that haven't been what we want this year.
But if you don't focus on those things that we really don't have control over and
just trying to make the best out of the situation it might not be so bad.
My main advice for college is to make the most of the time you have,
make the most of the situation you've got.
And I'm only 19 but I think that's pretty good advice for all of life.
Life is 10% what happens to you 90% how you react to it.
I'm gonna head out for a run now.
Thank you for watching, I hope you enjoyed.
Thanks to be you for putting my video up on their social media.
And if you wanna see more videos of mine, check out my YouTube channel.
It's my name will Loggia Most importantly embrace your life story Spread the Love.
So I guess I'm running alone today it's not my favorite but
sometimes dogs maybe [NOISE]