Terriers in Charge: Madison Miranda (Questrom’24)
President, BU’s Puerto Rican Student Association
Miranda’s freshman year coincided with the height of the COVID pandemic, when many students were taking classes via Zoom. She found it hard to meet other students, but during Splash, BU’s annual student club fair, she discovered BU’s Puerto Rican Student Association (PRSA) and immediately signed up. The club is open to any student interested in learning about Puerto Rican culture, and it seeks to foster a sense of community among students with Puerto Rican heritage (whether in the United States or elsewhere) through on-campus social events and off-campus outings.
“I missed the food I’d grown up with. I missed the weather in Puerto Rico and the beaches,” Miranda says, recalling her first year on campus. “It was hard getting used to the cold weather, and I wanted to find others here at BU who understood what I was going through.”
Because she wanted to make sure the club was creating and planning events, she joined the E-board as treasurer sophomore year. Now, she’s president of the club, which currently has about 40 members.
“It’s made me happy to be able to provide opportunities for Puerto Rican students to come together, relax, and share our cultural heritage,” Miranda says, and also that the club is able to provide members with a sense of home, when home is often very far away.
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