{"id":3637,"date":"2018-01-23T11:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=3637"},"modified":"2018-02-26T21:19:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T02:19:54","slug":"megan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2018\/01\/23\/megan\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan: Reflections on the Start of My Last Semester in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I start off my third, and final, spring semester in Boston, I have done a lot of thinking about what a fantastic experience I\u2019ve had here, and all of the opportunities I have found, and friendships I have made. I\u2019ll hopefully be spending the spring here at BU, the summer in London, and the fall in Los Angeles, so there is still quite a bit left of college, but not a lot of time in the home I\u2019ve found here. But I\u2019m not sad, because there are so many good things to come this semester, and so many fun things I want to do before I leave. And so, here\u2019s a list of things I\u2019m looking forward to, and things I have to do before May comes around.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong> Looking forward to: My classes<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>This semester I\u2019m taking three Film &amp; TV classes that are both going to be so interesting, and perfect prep for my future. For example: my 2D Animation class, which is unlike anything I have ever done before, but will provide me with invaluable information as I look for jobs in my post-grad life.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong>Have to do: Celebrate St. Patrick\u2019s Day<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Now something I want to do: celebrate a truly Bostonian St. Patrick\u2019s Day. I want the little bit of Irish in me to explode as I deck myself in green and dance around like a true leprechaun.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/comblog\/files\/2018\/01\/unnamed-2.gif\" alt=\"unnamed-2\" width=\"460\" height=\"346\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3657\" \/><\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><strong> Looking forward to: My internship<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>This spring, I\u2019m interning for Children\u2019s Programming at WGBH, the PBS affiliate in Boston. This past weekend, I spent 9 hours on set each day while we filmed High School Quiz Show, where I learned all about filming a game show in a professional setting.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><strong>Have to do: Go to Museums<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I feel like as I\u2019ve gotten busier with extra-curriculars and classes, I\u2019ve stopped taking advantage of the truly extraordinary experience we get as college students: the opportunity to go to so many museums in the city for free. I need to make at least one last stop to the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts.<\/p>\n<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/comblog\/files\/2018\/01\/unnamed-3.gif\" alt=\"unnamed-3\" width=\"461\" height=\"252\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3656\" \/>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li><strong> Looking forward to: Bay State<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I am going to be a Producer on the nation\u2019s longest-running college soap opera, which seems absolutely insane, but which is something I have been working for since I came to BU, which makes it so especially rewarding. And, we\u2019re re-vamping the show to make it better than it\u2019s ever been before.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li><strong> Have to do: Go to the Commons on a Snow Day<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Whether I\u2019m going to build a snowman or have a terrific snowball fight, what I really want to do is leave BU during a snow day and go crazy in the snow (since I\u2019m not going to have any seasons in L.A.)!<\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/comblog\/files\/2018\/01\/unnamed-4.gif\" alt=\"unnamed-4\" width=\"466\" height=\"437\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3654\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li><strong>Looking forward to: Spending Time with Friends<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I feel so grateful for the friendships I have made during my time here, and friendship has always been one of the most important parts of my life. So, I have to spend my last bit of time here celebrating those friendships, and being with the people that have made me so happy over these last few years.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"8\">\n<li><strong> Have to do: Take One Last Long Walk<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If there is one thing I really know about myself, it\u2019s how much I love to walk around Boston. Whenever I have a few free hours, and the weather isn\u2019t <em>too<\/em>dreadful, I\u2019m guaranteed to be walking from BU to my favorite destination, the Harbor (see my last post for more on that). I have to spend my last bit of time in my favorite place in the city.<\/p>\n<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/comblog\/files\/2018\/01\/giphy-16.gif\" alt=\"giphy (16)\" width=\"460\" height=\"460\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3653\" \/>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I start off my third, and final, spring semester in Boston, I have done a lot of thinking about what a fantastic experience I\u2019ve had here, and all of the opportunities I have found, and friendships I have made. I\u2019ll hopefully be spending the spring here at BU, the summer in London, and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2018\/01\/23\/megan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Megan: Reflections on the Start of My Last Semester in Boston<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44422],"tags":[44495,44355],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637"}],"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=3637"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3803,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions\/3803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}