Tagged: Friday Fieldtrip

Louise Liu

February 24th, 2016 in Current Semester, Spring 2016, Student's Blog

Lost in the Newseum

Louise Liu
Spring 2016

“Journalism is the first rough draft of history.” This remarkable quote in 1963 came from Phil Graham, publisher and co-owner of one of the greatest American newspapers, The Washington Post. Today, half a century later, that quote was engraved on a wall at the Newseum, bestowing the greatest honor on journalists but also reminding them the huge responsibilities that fall on their shoulders. More

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Kara Korab

July 4th, 2013 in Fall 2013, Previous Semesters

What is your favorite place that we have visited on a Friday?

By Kara Korab
Summer 2013

Every Friday the BU Washington program takes us on mini-outings all around DC. These field trips have included places such as the National Portrait Gallery, the Pentagon, the National Bulding Museum (read Vlad’s blog post about that), a Washington Nationals baseball game, and countless others. Being from the DMV (That’s DC, Maryland, Virginia to you non-Mid-Atlanticers) area, I didn’t expect to be wow-ed by any of the places we went. After all, I’ve been doing field trips to the National Mall since elementary school.

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