{"id":2295,"date":"2026-03-04T14:20:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/globalprograms\/?page_id=2295"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:01:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:01:51","slug":"march-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/globalprograms\/initiatives-outreach\/march-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear International Students,<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations on surviving the onslaught of blizzards and storms! It\u2019s been a rough couple of months for the west to east campus trekkers, but fingers crossed for a sunny spring as we move into March.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>Announcements, <\/strong>color breaks through the gray with Holi celebrations, outdoor guided trips offer a moment to exhale, BU\u2019s Indie Art Market spotlights small creative businesses, and BU\u2019s Sabor Latino announces their dance performance for the spring semester.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>Student Experiences,<\/strong> Alicia Chiang (COM \u201927) reflects on growing up in Taiwan, adjusting to American culture, and carving out a sense of community that feels both familiar and new.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>Culture Corner,<\/strong> we explore the idea of assimilation and belonging. What do we lose and what do we gain when we start to adapt to a foreign culture?<\/p>\n<nav class=\"toc-wrapper\" id=\"toc\" aria-label=\"Page Section Navigation\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"toc-heading toc-nav-toggle\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Toggle Page Contents Navigation\" aria-expanded=\"true\">Page Contents<\/span><\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear International Students, Congratulations on surviving the onslaught of blizzards and storms! It\u2019s been a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9593,"featured_media":2298,"parent":16,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"bu-landing","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/globalprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/globalprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/globalprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/globalprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9593"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/globalprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/globalprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2297,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/globalprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2295\/revisions\/2297"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/globalprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/globalprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/globalprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}