{"id":1199,"date":"2013-07-23T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2013-07-22T10:36:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T14:36:10","slug":"sara-surviving-transfer-student-orientation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2013\/07\/23\/sara-surviving-transfer-student-orientation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara: Surviving Transfer Student Orientation"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Hello all! I hope everyone is having a fantastic summer and looking forward to the fall semester ahead in Boston, I know I certainly am. In fact, I\u2019m already dreaming of Red Sox games, cozy scarves and pumpkin flavored everything. I know I shouldn\u2019t be wishing away summer but hey, fall is my favorite.<\/p>\n

Shout out to all the new transfer students coming into BU this year! A year ago I was in your exact position and I know I wasn\u2019t exactly looking forward to going through another<\/i> college orientation. But I will say it was well worth the experience, I met my best friend and now current roommate and it really helped me to get my feet on the ground and get my transfer credits taken care of before school started. I also walked away with a great mantra that Dean Elmore, our Dean of Students, shared with us. He quoted Howard Thurman saying, \u201cDon’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.\u201d<\/p>\n

This really stuck with me because it made me feel in the right place at the right time. There\u2019s nothing better than feeling like your decision to leave a school was the right one. It is not easy to transfer schools and it takes courage to make the leap of going to a new school. So basically what I\u2019m trying to say is take a deep breath because you\u2019re in great hands.<\/p>\n

That being said, I came in as a transfer student last year knowing I wanted a career in the entertainment field and soon after I realized this dream, I read Dany\u2019s blog post- a fellow COM ambassador and transfer student- about her amazing internships in LA for the summer. That really lit a spark in me and I swore to myself that this summer I would be interning in Los Angeles. Being someone who lives and breathes the awards season December-February, I feel so grateful to find myself in my dream internship at The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. I have had the best experience and I know this never would have happened if I hadn\u2019t come to BU.<\/p>\n

My biggest piece of advice to transfer students coming in is to not be afraid of your dreams. Don\u2019t feel like you\u2019re already behind just because you\u2019re coming to a new school as a sophomore or a junior. You still have time to figure out what makes you come alive and go do it. The best part is, there are so many people here who will go out of their way to help you make your dreams a reality.<\/p>\n

So enjoy the rest of your summer, bond with some fellow transfer students at orientation and get ready for a great fall semester!<\/p>\n

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Hello all! I hope everyone is having a fantastic summer and looking forward to the fall semester ahead in Boston, I know I certainly am. In fact, I\u2019m already dreaming of Red Sox games, cozy scarves and pumpkin flavored everything. I know I shouldn\u2019t be wishing away summer but hey, fall is my favorite. Shout … Continue reading Sara: Surviving Transfer Student Orientation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[257,1613,4057,7270,44304],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1200,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}