Some thoughts from a Bio Major

Introduction
I liked the whole city atmosphere because it is downtown Boston —it’s on one street, and it’s not really in the middle of nowhere. My longest walk to class is probably 15-20 minutes and usually if you take the T, the train, it takes about 5-7 minutes.
My biology major is in CAS, College of Arts and Sciences. It’s not a lot of work. It’s doable, but you have to take all your major courses like Chemistry, Bio, Cell Bio, and Orgo with labs and everything. Generally, you meet three times a week for lecture and then discussion, and then a lab. Lectures usually have around 250 kids, discussions are about 25 kids, and labs are about 20 kids. It’s a 7-year program with undergrad. Basically you’re an undergrad for 7 years and you’re just here for the whole seven years.
The Lecture professors, if you go up to them, yeah, they’ll definitely talk to you, and in office hours too, but if you don’t make an effort in lecture, they won’t do anything. In discussion and lab they all know your first name.
The dorms are mostly sophomores. It’s an apartment-style dorm, which is 3 people, 3 rooms, a common room and a bathroom. They’re actually really, really nice. They’re not bad at all. The only problem is that each room has a kind of different set up and we kind of got a small room, but it’s not bad at all, it’s really nice.
The food is really good. I like West the best. Warren Towers is really good too. And there are a lot of choices and varieties and stuff like that.

Campus Life and Social Life
There are a lot of BU bars around here like Dugout, and there’s Wonderbar up the street near Brighton. Sake-Bombing is really popular around here. And then other than going out and going to clubs and stuff like that, they have the Blue Man Group, and Boston Common is really nice. They have an opera place here. If you’re into clubs and bars, there’s tons of them around. A lot of the student population goes to clubs or if you’re into house parties or frats, there are house parties up the street, there are MIT frats. There’s a whole variety of things.
Club Mantra is a lounge area, kind of. I think the average age there is probably low 20’s-ish and it’s just a really chill place, they have all sorts or random lounge music.
I wasn’t a Boston Sports fan at first, I was neutral to baseball, and then I came here and the Red Sox just swept me off—my roommate was so into it. We went out for every game. It was just so much fun. Red Sox and Patriot games are so intense.
The people here are wealthy but not stuck up. I met a lot of kids who have quite a bit of money but they’re not stuck up at all and everybody I met here is pretty nice.
My favorite thing about BU is probably the fact that it’s in a city. I like the whole city atmosphere…walking out at 2 in the morning, grabbing some food. It’s just really, really nice. I really don’t know what my least favorite thing about BU would be. I like pretty much everything, every aspect about BU. Advertisement
Academics
I would chose BU over other Boston schools probably because of the diverse population. It has a really good Science and research program. It’s the location, I think the type of campus, like on one huge street and it’s all BU, whereas parts of Northeastern and Boston college are 20 minutes away from here.
It’s very easy to meet kids from other schools. You go out to bars and clubs and there are kids from all over the school and they have a lot of like mixers at clubs for different schools, and different cultural shows and it makes it really easy to meet kids from other schools.
The girls are not bad. I mean if you go to clubs you meet girls left and right, I guess, but mostly I meet girls through classes and through friends, but you can easily meet a new girl everyday. It’s not hard to find a girl. It probably is hard to get one.
The workload is kind of tough because you have times where it’s a lot of work and then times when there’s hardly anything to do.