{"id":502,"date":"2014-09-15T12:33:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T16:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/?p=502"},"modified":"2014-11-16T10:56:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T15:56:29","slug":"a-bumpy-start-to-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/2014\/09\/15\/a-bumpy-start-to-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"A bumpy start to Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/strong><\/a>By Nikita Sampath<\/strong><\/a>
\n MS Broadcast Journalism ’16<\/em><\/a>
\nBU College of Communication<\/em>\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

I arrived at Logan International airport feeling more excited than tired after my nearly-24 hour journey. Being the klutz I am, I managed to find myself in an awkward situation just minutes after I got out of the airport.<\/p>\n

After a great struggle to load and push out all of my luggage (two suitcases weighing a little over 50 lbs each, another two weighing about 60 lbs and my backpack) from the airport, I was relieved when I spotted my friend who\u2019d come to pick me. In my elated state (I was meeting him after two years), I left my trolley on the pavement to go over and say hello. Bad idea. In the 10 seconds that I was away, my trolley, with all its mass, rolled down the sidewalk and crashed into a parked car causing a rather bad dent. Oopsy. Little did I know, the week that was to follow had more awkwardness in store for me.<\/p>\n

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The day I moved in, I lugged most of my luggage from the T to my apartment in the\u00a0sweltering heat. Honestly I was prepared for the cold but NOT for the heat! I then had to attend the ISSO orientation for new international grad students. When I got home, I noticed my comb was missing. There were some women at our apartment helping us clean and I asked one of them if she\u2019d seen it. She didn’t exactly understand what I was saying,\u00a0but she did point to the bag of trash she\u2019d just collected. Apprehensively, I took a peek in it. Did I find my comb? Yes I did, but not just that. They\u2019d thrown out a whole bunch of\u00a0my\u00a0other stuff including my phone charger, my brand new water bottle, a shoe bag and the pair of socks I\u2019d just taken off!<\/span><\/p>\n

Later that week, at BU\u2019s College of Communication (COM) building, I mistook a professor for a student and asked him what he was majoring in.\u00a0At J.P Licks, just as I began relishing my mint chocolate yogurt, my roommate pointed out that I\u2019d picked up a spoon from the used spoons bin.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nevertheless, my first week has been great. I like all my classes, I made some friends and ate some good stuff. I look forward to the fall and winter, I just hope I don\u2019t embarrass myself too much, as much fun as it may be in hindsight.<\/p>\n

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