Faithful readers, who I\u2019m sure keep up with the COM Blog regularly, I am graduating. If I were\u00a0writing this on an old-timey typewriter, my tears would stain the page and make the ink run and\u00a0this whole thing would be completely unintelligible. In that spirit, since I don\u2019t have a typewriter, I\u00a0will just make this goodbye letter to COM completely unintelligible.<\/p>\n
COM, I met you when I was a junior in high school. I was just a girl with a suitcase (vera bradley\u00a0backpack) and a dream (desperate desire to leave New Jersey). I missed the COM tour time\u00a0slot so I had to roam the halls by myself. I was secretly glad I wasn\u2019t on a tour because I knew\u00a0my parents would have been weird and embarrassing.<\/p>\n
When I finally met some actual COM students, I thought they were literally the coolest. Not just\u00a0because they all wore jean jackets – they just seemed so put-together, they\u2019d all had awesome\u00a0internships, they were self-assured and confident and doing what they loved. I aspired to be\u00a0them, and folks, it kind of happened! At COM, I got to host my own podcast, be a co-host on a\u00a0radio show (shoutout Trash Talk), I interned at a real late night show, and I started a feminist\u00a0satire paper (The Pinky Toe, check us out on Instagram.) I achieved so much while I was here,\u00a0but I was having so much fun doing it that I didn\u2019t realize just how much I\u2019ve accomplished until I\u00a0sat down to write this letter.<\/p>\n
I never thought I would be ready to leave college, and in some ways I\u2019m not mostly because I\u2019ll\u00a0miss my friends and professors and this incredible city. But in terms of feeling prepared to enter\u00a0the TV industry, I weirdly feel like I can actually do it. And YES I get paid to say that as a COM\u00a0Ambassador, but I also actually believe that COM prepared me for this industry better than any\u00a0other school I could have gone to.<\/p>\n
What I love about COM is that it\u2019s never cutthroat and competitive. We thrive when we build\u00a0each other up, and when one person gets a cool opportunity, it benefits everyone. I don\u2019t know\u00a0about you, but my high school was the exact opposite. I want to be a TV writer because I love\u00a0collaborating, bouncing ideas off of others in order to tell the best version of a story. I\u2019ve already\u00a0gotten to do that so much here at COM, and it\u2019s made me appreciate the journey as I work\u00a0toward the destination.<\/p>\n
So that was kind of sappy, and now I\u2019d like to miss a few of the specific things I will miss most\u00a0about COM.
\n1. Zinnekin\u2019s waffle truck. I usually talked myself out of buying a waffle because I\u2019m broke
\nbut the one time I did, it was amazing.
\n2. Lockers in the basement. These are already gone but I will continue to miss them.
\n3. Professor Bill Braudis.
\n4. Professor Adam Lapidus.
\n5. Professor Deb Jaramillo.
\n6. The Zimmerman Family Social Activation Center. I wasn\u2019t allowed in but it looked cool.
\n7. Seeing the bright, smiling (read: super tired but still managing to be peppy) COM\u00a0Ambassadors working in Undergrad Affairs.<\/p>\n
8. Giving tours of the building and taking families to the maintenance ladder on the third
\nfloor and being like \u201cso now we\u2019re going up to the fourth floor.\u201d
\n9. Meeting excited prospective freshmen and undergrads and getting them pumped about\u00a0COM classes.
\n10. The amazing COMmunity I\u2019ve been lucky enough to spend four years with.<\/p>\n
In conclusion, I love you COM. And although I did vow never to give this school another penny,\u00a0when I\u2019m rich and famous, I\u2019ll consider giving this beloved building a renovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Farewell Com Faithful readers, who I\u2019m sure keep up with the COM Blog regularly, I am graduating. If I were\u00a0writing this on an old-timey typewriter, my tears would stain the page and make the ink run and\u00a0this whole thing would be completely unintelligible. In that spirit, since I don\u2019t have a typewriter, I\u00a0will just make … Continue reading Maddie: Farewell COM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44470],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290"}],"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=5290"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5293,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions\/5293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}