{"id":3468,"date":"2012-05-19T08:14:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T12:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/?p=3468"},"modified":"2012-05-19T08:14:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T12:14:08","slug":"you-go-terriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/2012\/05\/19\/you-go-terriers\/","title":{"rendered":"You Go Terriers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/dos\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_6840.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3469\" title=\"IMG_6840\" src=\"\/dos\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_6840-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6840\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_6840-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_6840-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We all get jazzed seeing our students successfully searching for their dreams and their passions.<\/p>\n<p>The Boston University community and the student life experience  inspire us. During your time at the University, I hope you looked around  and caught the vibe. Listened to music. Read as much as you could. I  hope you got around campus to see the community at its best.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve been on a long journey. Pause to celebrate. You took deep  breaths and listened to the bray of your heart. Congratulations again.<\/p>\n<p>Explanations of the spirit of this place are complicated. This place  is about the power of now. There is no script. A place full of  split-second decisions to fulfill what the moment requires. This is a  grand conversation. Inspired thinking. A cool urban campus. Historic.  Caring.<\/p>\n<p>Style floats through this place \u2014 it is both lyrical and  thought-provoking. Style in a place where the mind and the heart dance  together. Hope you enjoyed it and that you see its reflection in the  people, streams, conversations, posts, status updates and pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for making this place vibrant.<\/p>\n<p>May joy walk beside you<\/p>\n<p>Let beauty surround you.<\/p>\n<p>And, let kindness guide you.<\/p>\n<p>Peace.<\/p>\n<p><em>In addition to our students, credit is due to Sylvia Plath,  Wynton Marsalis, and Geoffrey C. Ward, Ilan Stavans and Ver\u00f3nica Albin,  George H. Bass, and Brenda Ueland for the inspiration they gave me for  writing this post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We all get jazzed seeing our students successfully searching for their dreams and their passions. The Boston University community and the student life experience inspire us. During your time at the University, I hope you looked around and caught the vibe. Listened to music. Read as much as you could. I hope you got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3471,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions\/3471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}