{"id":2345,"date":"2016-09-17T15:37:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T19:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2016-09-17T15:42:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T19:42:29","slug":"jimmy-come-on-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2016\/09\/17\/jimmy-come-on-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy: COMe on People!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fun Fact: When trying to think of broader name for their newly established School of Public Relations, the 1947 Boston University Board of Trustees were stumped. All they they knew was that they really liked the three letters \u201cC,\u201d \u201cO,\u201d and \u201cM.\u201d After failing to arrive at a consensus, they eventually ditched the idea and went with \u201cBoston University College of Communication.\u201d The acronym however, stuck.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

After spending INNUMERABLE hours in Mugar doing research, I was able to dig up some of the original contenders. Here they are below:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

C<\/span>ollege of <\/span>O<\/span>ptional <\/span>M<\/span>ath<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

C<\/span>lasses with <\/span>O<\/span>ne <\/span>M<\/span>ale<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

C<\/span>arefully <\/span>O<\/span>rnamented <\/span>M<\/span>acbooks<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

C<\/span>ompeting for <\/span>O<\/span>pportunities and <\/span>M<\/span>oney<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

C<\/span>ritical-thinking <\/span>O<\/span>verwhelms <\/span>M<\/span>e<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

C<\/span>ompulsively <\/span>O<\/span>ver-watches <\/span>M<\/span>ad Men<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

C<\/span>S6 <\/span>O<\/span>nly, <\/span>M<\/span>om!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

C<\/span>ameras, <\/span>O<\/span>veracting, <\/span>M<\/span>icrophones (oh my!)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

C<\/span>opywriting: <\/span>O<\/span>bjectively better than <\/span>M<\/span>arketing<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

C<\/span>are for <\/span>O<\/span>verhyped 80\u2019s coming of age <\/span>M<\/span>ovies?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

C<\/span>ontinues to <\/span>O<\/span>verthink <\/span>M<\/span>ajor<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

C<\/span>oncise, <\/span>O<\/span>bjective, and <\/span>M<\/span>issing punctuation <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

C<\/span>affeine <\/span>O<\/span>ver <\/span>M<\/span>aintaining sleep<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

C<\/span>ontemplates the <\/span>O<\/span>scars\u2019 <\/span>M<\/span>otives<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

C<\/span>onvinced <\/span>O<\/span>ITNB is <\/span>M<\/span>agic<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

C<\/span>anonize <\/span>O<\/span>ur Dear <\/span>M<\/span>indy Kaling<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(Just to clarify: these are all jokes or hyperbolic observations based off my limited experience as a student in the School of Communication. \u201cCOM\u201d is short for \u201cCommunication,\u201d obviously)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Fun Fact: When trying to think of broader name for their newly established School of Public Relations, the 1947 Boston University Board of Trustees were stumped. All they they knew was that they really liked the three letters \u201cC,\u201d \u201cO,\u201d and \u201cM.\u201d After failing to arrive at a consensus, they eventually ditched the idea and … Continue reading Jimmy: COMe on People!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44424],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345"}],"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=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2347,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}