{"id":3277,"date":"2017-10-04T11:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=3277"},"modified":"2017-10-03T12:49:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T16:49:31","slug":"nick-the-power-of-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2017\/10\/04\/nick-the-power-of-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick: The Power of Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I sit on the third floor of COM and await my next FPS reservation, it\u2019s easy to get nostalgic about the last three years. Being a senior is a weird feeling, and I\u2019m not sure it has set in quite yet. On one hand, this is the first time I\u2019ve been on campus since last fall, and I\u2019m eager to reconnect with old friends and make the most of every remaining second I have in college. On the other hand, you\u2019re basically forced to have one foot out the door so you can prepare for post-grad life and, gulp, the dreaded unknown that is the real world.<\/span><\/p>\n

When I look back at my BU career to this point, many things stand out. My on-air experience through BUTV10, my time onstage, long nights at the Daily Free Press office during the fall of my junior year, getting up at three in the morning for Meet the Press every\u00a0<\/span>Sunday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0last spring, to name a few. COM has given me so much in the way of practical experience, but that\u2019s hardly the most important thing. What I remember most about these years are the people I\u2019ve met, the mentors who have helped me along the way and the lifelong friendships I\u2019ve forged.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jane and I produce Offsides, and I have COM to thank for bringing us together. She’s been there since day 1 freshman year when we didn’t even know how to read off a teleprompter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sure, I\u2019ll remember Offsides, BUTV\u2019s only pro sports talk show, and the progress my fellow producers and I have made to improve it, but I\u2019ll remember the people first. Nick Picht, who produced Offsides my freshman year, went from being an intimidating senior to one of my closest friends and mentors. He took me under his wing and has advised me throughout my college career. I couldn\u2019t be more grateful for that, and I hope to be that same person to another freshman. I also got a job at the Boston Globe sophomore year through another Offsides friend \u2013 build these relationships and your network will grow along with your friendships.<\/span><\/p>\n

My time onstage has been memorable and fun \u2013 it\u2019s an important outlet amid all my other career-focused activities (so much so that I\u2019ve decided to give another go this semester). But once again, it\u2019s all about the relationships. I decided to do BU On Broadway\u2019s American Idiot sophomore year with my best friend, and I left the process with 20 additional best friends. College can be rough, and having a support system to turn to is crucial \u2013 it doesn\u2019t matter where you find it, but it matters that it\u2019s there.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ah, the Daily Free Press. BU\u2019s independent student newspaper has shaped my college experience and given me unmatched journalistic experience, but I never would have stuck with it had I not been surrounded by such wonderful people at the FreeP. I met my roommate there, and plenty others who I\u2019m certain will remain in my life long after we\u2019ve entered the esteemed realm of COM alumni. The long hours and UBurger trips were tough on me, but my friends kept me going. Someone once asked me if COM kids are competitive. From what I\u2019ve seen, COM students are motivated to pursue similar goals, and they\u2019re eager to see their friends reach and surpass them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Long hours at the FreeP office flew by with these goons by my side. Justin, Nick and Jon were my FreeP sports partners-in-crime first, but over time became some of my best friends at BU<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My internship with \u201cMeet the Press\u201d in the spring was transformative in ways I could\u2019ve never imagined. I met senators, members of Congress and governors, but the group of friends I made through the BUDC program is one of the biggest reasons why I enjoyed my semester there as much as I did.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been asked on tours, \u201cWhat\u2019s it like to go to a school as big as BU?\u201d And I always come back to the same answer: BU doesn\u2019t seem that big if you find your niche and surround yourself with a network of support. Then, not only does Comm. Ave. start to seem smaller, but COM does as well. And COM is such a tight-knit community anyway because of its size. The people you meet here will not only be your peers, your camera operators when you need to a standup and your editors, they will be lifelong friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I sit on the third floor of COM and await my next FPS reservation, it\u2019s easy to get nostalgic about the last three years. Being a senior is a weird feeling, and I\u2019m not sure it has set in quite yet. On one hand, this is the first time I\u2019ve been on campus since … Continue reading Nick: The Power of Friendship<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44429],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277"}],"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=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3280,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions\/3280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}