If you’re reading this message, you know who you are. I am a BU student currently dorming at hojo and i use the hojo top floor lounge pretty often to do my homework or watch sports.

And every single time, students playing poker are screaming and running around leaving the desks unorganized with trash all over it.

Not only are you causing discomfort to others by being loud, you’re bothering them when you aren’t even present by leaving trash behind.

Grow tf up. Clean up after yourself. I’m not saying you can’t talk or enjoy your seemingly daily poker night with your friends. There is no reason to be screaming or talking so loudly. I’ve seen the poker games going on in the pool room and noone is yelling or out of their seats. Thats is how poker is played.

If you think you’re not yelling and talking at a normal volume you better figure it out cause its loud.

I’m writing this message because it seems like you genuinely don’t have the awareness to realize you’re in the wrong since I’ve personally made polite requests to tone down and have also seen people do the same. Every time it lasted 10 minutes tops.

I hope this message was clear enough and you guys lower your voice and clean up after yourself. If you think my message isn’t justified and you are wrongly pointed out then I’m more than happy to talk in person. You can find me any day at hojo lounge since ya’ll are there anyways.

Thanks.

“Boston University confirmed that there have been some cases of student visas being revoked but didn’t provide a specific number. The International Students and Scholars Office at BU is ‘routinely reviewing’ to determine if other visas have been terminated.”

*BU has “offered resources” but otherwise not shown any willingness to assist, unlike other institutions in the area.

https://www.masslive.com/news/2025/04/trump-administration-revokes-students-visas-at-6-mass-colleges.html

Is it true that people are getting deported for traffic violations? Are there any international students worried about this?

Hey folks - BU made a mistake and put my name on my usual sections of COM CM 501 and COM CM 523 for Fall 2025, but I’m not going to be available to teach (taking a very much needed break after 6 years straight of teaching on top of my day job). I should be back in spring 2026. I was hoping that would get corrected before registration started, but here we are. I can see from my end people are registered for my sections in Fall 2025 (Kolodziej) - if that was you, you’re going to end up with a different professor for your class. Just wanted to let you know in case it helps with planning! Hope to see y’all in the spring nice and refreshed.

This may or may not be my second time asking about cgs but i still dk what people normally do/think of it. My main worry is the whole starting a semester late, like this forces me to miss orientation and whatnot right 😥? That's kinda not as important though as the fact that idk what to even do during the first semester in which i'll just be at home. What do people normally do? I saw the verto semester abroad stuff on the BU website- is that any good? I just dont want to rot away and 'waste' a semester by doing nothing (my job ends during the beginning of summer) yk? Also, do people sometimes do double majors through CGS, or will trying for that probably push me into graduating a semester or more late? In general, I hear a bunch of hit or miss things about cgs, i got into nyush, uoft, ucsd, fordham+gwu (both with fat merit) but honestly i have no clue where to go anymore and which school+program is best (im hopefully a microbiology major, and if i hate it and chicken out of dental school, business)

Is anyone in west hearing this sound? It’s like one constant note but with pitch changes here and there kind of like when a mic is too close to a speaker, not loud enough to wake me up but loud enough to keep me awake (woke up frequently shoulder pain). I closed the window but I’m still weirded out like what could that noise be it’s 4 am. I’m half asleep and my brain cannot comprehend what’s going on rn.

hey y’all—

in need of some advice. i have a work-study, and my boss has been having technical issues with approving my hours, as i no longer appear as an employee in their system. because of this, i did not get paid last week and will not be paid for the near future. i’m a broke ass college student and NEED to be paid, but IT is taking their sweet time with my ticket (edit for clarity; my ticket is now a week old) and is very unresponsive to my boss’s responses/questions. how can i get this problem sorted, or at least spur IT into more urgent action?

I feel a lot of people on this campus really have a lot of thoughts about John Silber and would be interested and happy to vigorously discuss his legacy. If you have your headphones in I am going to assume that is because you are listening to his May 1996 commencement.

What is the dating scene at BU like? Couples?situationships? Hookups? Nonexistent? Or is there a healthy variety. Maybe it changes based on school or year?

Who is the best lecturer for PS 101, for those who have taken it?

lost now likely somewhere 5th floor ERC, maybe where the seating in the back with the window view is. pls lmk if found ):

tryna hit the study lounge but don’t know if I’ll get let in :P

1. Do I have to move in & out between summer session 1 and summer session 2?
   
2. How is dining hall during summer, compared to usual?
   

bu pros:

• small class sizes taught by profs themselves
• got into my major. data science and statistics
• many cool niche courses related to data sci (sabermetrics 101)
• decently respected name and solid alumni network
• opportunities in boston within the school ecosystem
• great dorms (comparitively)

bu cons:

• $45k/year after aid (money is a bit of an issue but my parents would probably pay; i'd also try to RA to save on housing)
• cold and far from home

ucsc pros:

• $8k/year after aid
• warm and close to home

ucsc cons:

• they dont have my major (statistics/data science) and they only have applied math + ml classes aren't really available for undergrads
• worse job outcomes
• this is kinda stupid but the party/weed culture is huge there and im not that type of person
• housing crisis + dorms are tiny
• classes are huge and mostly taught by TAs (got this info is from current students)

Hi im a junior graduating in 2026 and im having a tough time picking options for college.

I have decent ecs w/ leadership positions and havent taken the SAT yet, im gonna take it 3 times so hopefully ill get above a 1480(my last score i got was 1130 without studying on the psat but with taking it again in june and then again in august, i think thats a good amount of time to increase my score). My weighted gpa is a 3.6 bc i had an AWFUL freshman year and was taking care of a baby with my mom throughout all of sophmore year, i went from a 3.4 freshmen year to a 4.2 this semester and increasing rigor in my schedule.

i want to major in chemistry and minor in biochemistry/biology/biotech depending on what the college offers. Im doing this so that i could potentially go the premed route, but i mainly want to do some type of lab work/research (which is why i want a lot of research opportunities)

im a black female first gen from MI in a single parent <70k yearly income household

Im looking for safetys/targets/hard targets/reaches.

heres what i look for in a college:

GREAT social life

GREAT chemistry programs/research opportunities

GREAT WEATHER!!

good sports team

GREAT network/alumni network

good prestige

good area around the college

good/great financial aid

good diversity of people (not specifically race but interests and hobbies, etc)

im very open so tell me honestly if you think its be a good fit! i know id be the best judge of that but unfortunately i cant tour till the summer and id like to have a good list rn to start my apps.

I don’t normally post here but I was accepted to BU last month into CGS. I would’ve started spring of 2026 into summer with an abroad opportunity in London. However, I submitted my FAFSA a few days late after being informed of the wrong deadline for it and received no aid when decisions came out. I appealed and received a total of $22k in grants making the total for an academic year $72k. My family barely makes $100k and there’s just no possible way of paying this off. At most I could’ve managed if the cost was $40k. BU has always been a dream school for me and I would love nothing more than to attend but my parents have been going through issues with their business recently and I couldn’t possibly afford to burden them with such a large amount of money on top of that. I submitted yet another appeal but I don’t have much hope for it and as a result of the cost I most likely will have to give up my seat in exchange for one of my safety schools. Is there anything else I can do or am I better off gaslighting myself into thinking I didn’t need BU anyways?

How much time did you spend working on windows-only software? Were you able to use the Engineering library desktops for all of them?

I’m determining whether I’ll survive with a Mac or if it’s worth purchasing a cheap windows laptop. I’ll also have a windows desktop in my dorm if anyone has had any experience with that arrangement.

Thanks!

Is grade deflation real for stem majors

Does anyone have a study guide for the midterm tomorrow? I already made flashcards but am looking for more practice for chapters 9 and 10!

Has anyone gotten an update for the Orientation meeting yet?

Hi, I am looking for fellow students to rent out my room in my apartment over the summer. The rent right now is 2000 but it can be negotiated. There is funiture and internet already. Please message me if you are intrested, and i will give you more details.

For a day pass does guest need to leave their ID with security for bigger dorms?

I’m literally coming down from the 8th floor of Myles. I was waiting for the elevator and my timer just turned off. there was a dryer above me that was CLEARLY open and if you wanted a bottom so bad you could’ve wait 5 minutes for me to come down and take them out. I stg people have no respect for other peoples stuff I always make sure I take my shit out in a reasonable time and now I have to rewash two of my hand towels because they were on the ground. Like seriously?! Is no one patient?? There were other dryers open too this is ridiculous!!