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Student Life

What I Wish I Knew Before Coming to BU

August 27, 2025

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Student Life

This BU Academy Senior Is Paving the Way for Young People in the Puzzle World

August 26, 2025

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Student Life

Your Textbook Questions Answered: Buy or Rent? Digital or Physical?

August 26, 2025

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Student Life

Six Tips to Help You Furnish Your Apartment or Dorm on a Budget

August 26, 2025

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University News

Boston University Introduces Common Read, a New Campus Tradition

August 25, 2025

A split image for college orientation. On the left is the entrance to a large stone university chapel with a social media question box overlay that reads “Hey, first-year Terriers! What questions do you have for upperclassmen?” On the right is an aerial view of a city campus with leafy trees, surrounded by buildings. Overlaying the right side are six question boxes from students asking about finding events, hanging out on campus, making connections, managing academic rigor, recommended apps, and finding internships.

Student Life

Answering Your Top Questions About Boston University Student Life

August 22, 2025

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Orientation

BU’s New Orientation Week: a Fully Immersive, Weeklong Start to Campus Life

August 22, 2025

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Video: I Interned at Google. This is What It Was Like

August 22, 2025

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Back2BU

Pack or Pass? Everything You Should—and Shouldn’t—Bring to Your New Dorm

August 20, 2025

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Style

50 Dorm Design Tips for Your BU Digs

August 18, 2025

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Student Life

School of Medicine Welcomes MD Class of 2029 at Traditional White Coat Ceremony

August 5, 2025

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We Gave This Terrier a Disposable Camera. See What She Photographed

August 5, 2025

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Food

BU Student Leads a Restaurant—from Almost 7,000 Miles Away

August 4, 2025

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Campus Life

Teaming Up with BU Sustainability to Give Bed Sheets and Towels a New Life

July 28, 2025

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Health

35 Ways to Build the Community You’re Craving

July 23, 2025

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The Stories Behind These Eye-Catching Sculptures at BU and Beyond

July 21, 2025

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Student Life

BU Paris Students Deliver Hospitality Research to the Palace of Versailles

July 21, 2025

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BU, but Make It Emoji

July 15, 2025

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Sports

BU Table Tennis Player Headed to World Championships in Germany

July 14, 2025

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Arts & Culture

This CFA Student Is Using Art to Help Medical Patients

July 8, 2025

This CFA Student Is Using Art to Help Medical Patients