(upbeat music)
- I'm Sam Clarke with Crimson Education,
and we're here at Boston University
to ask some big questions.
Okay, what is the best thing about BU?
- I'd say it's the configuration of, like,
the diversity and the name that it has.
I know there's lots of other schools
with such reputable names.
But I think, overseas you get that impact of, you know,
what does BU do for you, and that's part of the diversity,
because I think that so many people from around the world
that come here and get to interact with them.
And that's part of the BU experience, I'd say.
- I love how caring the professors are.
They always seem to take time out
and really be passionate about what they're teaching,
and seem to wanna go out of their way to help you.
- I think the people I've met.
I really, really like having
such a diverse group of friends
from all over the US and other countries.
I think it's really cool that
everyone can be in the same community,
but be from such different backgrounds.
- Probably being so close to Newbury
and being able to go shopping between classes.
- Between classes, like, class, shop, class, shop?
- Yeah.
- I really love my college within BU.
So, I'm in Sargent College,
the College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences,
and I'm studying human physiology,
and the program is super specialized.
There's only 165 in the incoming class of Sargent,
so even though Boston University itself
has 16000 undergrad, my college is very specialized,
and the focus that you get from the professors
and the academic advisors within
my small college at BU, it's already blown me away,
and it's only the third week.
Having freedom and not having to answer to my parents.
(laughing)
- In contrast, what's the worst thing about BU?
- Just that the campus is super spread out,
and like, to go from one end to the other,
it's kind of annoying.
- I think trying to avoid all of the wind tunnels on campus
whenever the weather is bad.
- Do you sorta get trapped in 'em?
- Yeah.
- Okay, so I think we've found
one of the wind tunnels they were talking about.
It's literally completely different weather
right here in this corridor.
It is a wind tunnel.
- And the BU bus, which is never on time,
and like, it's kinda like a legend.
- It's a legend that it's never on time?
- Yeah, if you get a BU app and you see the BU bus,
sometimes it'll show up in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
- Okay.
- The fact that the BU bus never come when you want it,
and it always just passes you when you're trying to get it.
- We've heard the BU bus multiple times.
- Yeah, that's definitely one of the worst parts.
- Probably the winters and trying to get around.
- And what do Friday and Saturday nights usually look like?
- Well, I work some Friday and Saturday nights.
Other nights, we all go and, I don't know,
yeah, we hang out.
- Hanging out?
- Yeah, just hang out.
- You know, just some friends hangin'.
- Right, of course, yeah.
- Yeah, it's never the same thing.
That's also a really nice thing about college,
that it's never the same thing
one weekend to the next.
- Weekends are fun.
It's a lot of work, a lot of schoolwork,
a lot of time in the library,
but you get to do it with your friends, which is fun.
- Hanging out with friends at night,
but during the day, it's usually at Mugar.
- Mugar, the library?
- Yeah.
- You go to dinner or somewhere nice,
and then we'll go hang out with friends,
and then usually go to brunch again
the next morning somewhere downtown
or around Newbury.
- A lot of times, my friends and I,
we'll just go out and explore Boston,
like the North End, or just downtown
by the gardens or something like that,
so just exploring around the city.
- I will go into museums, because we get
a lot of free memberships through BU,
so you just don't have to pay.
It's nice.
- Awesome.
If you remember, what did you write
your college application essays about?
- I wrote mine about teaching skiing
and what being around so many different kinds of people
with different abilities taught me
about myself and life.
- I honestly don't remember, it was so long ago.
No, I really don't.
- It worked, here we are.
- Yeah, here we are, not sure what it was,
but I guess it--
- I'll jump over here and then see.
- Okay, yeah, I think it was,
I mean, being from Southern California,
I think it was something about
living in a very different place for a while,
trying something new.
And I mean, it is only temporary,
but I do love it here, so I'm glad I did it.
- Do you remember?
- Do I remember?
Okay, no, I think it was about
being adaptable to different situations
from doing visitation with parents,
and coming also from a small town in Vermont
to a big city, and that kind of transition.
- I wrote it about my ethnicity
and how being an Indian-American
changed my perspective on how I see things
and how people see me.
- I wrote my college application
about my music, and how that has developed in my life,
and how I have grown as a person from my music.
- Actually, mine was really weird.
I wrote it about having unusual feet
and not being able to find shoes that fit.
My feet aren't that weird actually,
but not being able to find shoes that fit really well,
and then when I came to BU,
I had that feeling of, like, this fits,
this works for me, 'cause no other school had that feeling.
- I compared myself to a salad,
and it was just about diversity, and yeah, that's it.
- A specific kind of salad, or just general garden salad?
- Just how different ingredients
can come together and create a really cool salad.
- Awesome.
Anything to add about BU?
- Go Terriers.
- Go Terriers, yeah.
Oh, is there a cheer?
Is there like a Terriers cheer?
- Just BC sucks, pretty much.
- Oh, BC sucks.
Do you wanna, like, loud to the camera, BC sucks?
- BC sucks!
- Yeah, all right, thank you guys so much, have a good one.
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