{"id":5662,"date":"2024-04-23T09:55:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T13:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=5662"},"modified":"2024-04-23T09:55:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T13:55:59","slug":"chloe-p-my-love-letter-to-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2024\/04\/23\/chloe-p-my-love-letter-to-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Chloe P: My love letter to COM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four years ago, I was gearing up to graduate high school \u2014 and was primed to attend Boston University in the Fall. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I ultimately decided to take a gap year to wait out remote classes and other needed restrictions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then, a year later, I re-prepared to start school. Coming onto campus was exciting, and I was eager to get involved. I immediately applied to be a sports writer for The Daily Free Press. I also heard about AdClub, BU\u2019s pre-professional advertising agency, and applied to the club\u2019s varsity team, which does real work for local and nonprofit organizations. I became an account executive for Follain, a Boston-based skincare company.<\/span><\/p>\n

A semester later, I became an office assistant at COM Undergraduate Affairs \u2014 COM\u2019s academic advising office \u2014 and a year after that, I joined the COM Ambassador program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Each opportunity presented a new challenge, a new networking chance, a new place to learn what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Three years \u2014 and four summer courses \u2014 later, I am getting ready to graduate from COM in August. I\u2019m so grateful to have taken on major leadership roles in both of those inital organizations that I joined when I came to BU \u2014 Editor-in-Chief of the FreeP and President of AdClub.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Through these leadership roles, I developed immensely helpful skills for a career in communication: how to lead 150-person organizations, how to communicate effectively, how to be empathetic but assertive when needed. But most importantly, I learned a true passion for mentoring my peers. Helping students learn about the possibilities of COM, and learn about what they\u2019re interested in has been at the forefront of my BU experience.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll leave BU better than I was when I arrived from the faculty, the staff and the students constantly pushing me to be my best. But I hope I leave BU knowing I improved the experience of other students, whether personally or professionally.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Four years ago, I was gearing up to graduate high school \u2014 and was primed to attend Boston University in the Fall. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I ultimately decided to take a gap year to wait out remote classes and other needed restrictions. Then, a year later, I re-prepared to start school. Coming … Continue reading Chloe P: My love letter to 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":[44617],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662"}],"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=5662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5663,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662\/revisions\/5663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}