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First off, congratulations to all you new COM kiddies! I can\u2019t tell you how excited I am to meet all of you next fall. I\u2019ve been able to meet some of you\u00a0already at our Open Houses and you are all so wonderful. I hope you\u2019re as excited for next year as I am!<\/p>\n
Wait what am I talking about? Of course you guys are excited. Why wouldn\u2019t you be? You have so many fantastic things coming your way in the\u00a0next few months. Prom, graduation (graduation presents!), parties, summertime, orientation, the list goes on and on. Believe me, once you come\u00a0for orientation, you will never want to leave Boston. But here are some more things to look forward to once the year starts.<\/p>\n
1. That amazing moment when you successfully do your laundry for the first time.<\/strong><\/p>\n Now I know some of you probably do that already, but for me, this was one of the first \u201cindependent\u201d obstacles I had to overcome. I had my\u00a0mom write out on an index card the basic directions plus a few helpful tips so I wouldn\u2019t ruin any particular items. I can\u2019t tell you how relieved I\u00a0was when I finished and nothing was ten times smaller or ten times pinker than it should be.<\/p>\n 2. The Friday after your first full week of school.<\/strong><\/p>\n This is a different sort of accomplishment. There is always excitement that comes with the first day of school because everything is new. In college,\u00a0this excitement is magnified. That first week will make you feel like you\u2019ve been here forever. You\u2019ll know your professors and classmates, and\u00a0most importantly, the exact time it takes to get from your dorm\/dining hall to your class. Minutes are not wasted here at BU, especially when\u00a0those minutes mean more food in your stomach before a lecture!<\/p>\n 3. Your first college all-nighter.<\/strong> 4.<\/strong> Spending an entire day sitting in the Warren dining hall because you are running out of meals and each swipe counts so you bring\u00a0everything you have ever needed to work on for all eternity and leave your seat only to go to the bathroom in what I like to call the BU\u00a0Hunger Games.<\/strong><\/p>\n ….No? Just me? Okay.<\/p>\n Anyway, I could go on forever with everything you guys are going to experience once you get here. These are just the basics, but there are so\u00a0many awesome opportunities you\u2019re going to have that you can\u2019t even imagine! For example, this year alone I have held an Oscar that was\u00a0awarded at this year\u2019s Academy Awards, met the producer of Mad Men (she\u2019s a COM alum!), interviewed Gym Class Heroes, and fulfilled my\u00a0lifelong dream of filming the\u00a0Friends\u00a0theme song intro, couch and fountain and umbrellas and all (as most of you saw in our Open House video!)<\/p>\n I never imagined I would have the chance to do all those things, and I\u2019m so excited for what the next few semesters have in store for me.<\/p>\n In short, I hope you guys are prepared to have the best four years of your life. Welcome to BU!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First off, congratulations to all you new COM kiddies! I can\u2019t tell you how excited I am to meet all of you next fall. I\u2019ve been able to meet some of you\u00a0already at our Open Houses and you are all so wonderful. I hope you\u2019re as excited for next year as I am! Wait what … Continue reading Dany: Things to Look Forward To<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7280],"tags":[4249,7580,7317],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599"}],"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=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSelf-explanatory.
\n(ProTip: Sugar. Lots and lots of sugar. Also, the buddy system.)<\/p>\n