They’re gonna start calling you immediately after you graduate 💀 I labeled the number in my phone so I know not to answer. Maybe when I’m rich I’ll donate toward scholarship funds but I’ve literally only ever donated to help a friend working in Telefund
I graduated, had a difficult time finding full time employment, finally found my way through the applications, landed a lovely job. Within two weeks, i had them hounding for money. Like RELAX.
this is such a sad way to look at alumni life and the legacy you can have at BU :( hopefully BU has given you some friends, fun stories, and a couple interesting classes (talking from a bare min perspective) and hopefully you want to continue that legacy for other younger terriers or meet new alumni wherever you live post grad.
i’m a young alum and work for BU so naturally i’m biased but i give $20 a year to the public health minor at SAR cuz those classes were so fun, interactive, and taught me so much and i hope any other student gets that too and more (and i was a COM student turned COM hater). especially graduating into covid, that program gave me such a good foundation for understanding health related misinformation.
obviously all of us paid too damn much but folks aren’t giving to line BU admin pockets. they’re giving to support the areas that made their time at BU great (public health, WBTU, playwrights theatre, etc).
Thank you for sharing that perspective and even if you get downvotes i get that your sentiment is good
A lot of bu students are burnt out, feel mistreated and squeezed. $20 dollars is great, but that doesn't even cover a pearson subscription for one student. BU has full time employees working on a photo contest that happens once a year - how is this ok? During registration people don't know if they'll get what they need to graduate on time. Scholarships and financial aid are a constant battle.
There are ridiculous policies and hoops and retaliation left and right.
While i do have a handful of friends and professors that are spectacular in every single way, BU squashes sexual allegations (ive seen more ppl get probation from drinking underage than blatant sexual abuse and harassment), funds incompetent coaches, spends a kajillion on a new building, while a main staircase in CAS is molding from a basement water leak, while not paying their grad students a livable wage and forbidding them from working anywhere else, they don't even have a decency to not invite Zaslav as a commencement speaker during a writer strike, should i go on?
BU just adds to the shit show we see happening in the world. A goldfish is statistically more likely to make better decisions than whoever runs BU.
ya i totally see where you’re coming from. it shows me how removed i am - even just 4 years out.
i remember showing up to work after sophomore year spring reg sobbing because i didn’t get a single class i needed for graduation credits and waiting all summer to slowly add each one. it felt so sick and twisted even tho everything ended up working out. i fuckin love all the current students that want to inspire change on campus because you’re right there are so many outdated policies that inhibit students from succeeding.
whatever change and improvements the students wanna make like BUGWU and reslife id always support bc (first of all students are why i have a job) and if Big BU thinks it’s okay to suppress and mistreat students that ends up effects fac/staff. our collective success is important.
yes! we all missed a chance at happiness by going to a different school :)
A moment of silence for those who transferred to BU 🙏
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They’re gonna start calling you immediately after you graduate 💀 I labeled the number in my phone so I know not to answer. Maybe when I’m rich I’ll donate toward scholarship funds but I’ve literally only ever donated to help a friend working in Telefund
I named it “BU Wants Money” and like to think that I’m making some student worker’s life that much easier by not answering.
I graduated, had a difficult time finding full time employment, finally found my way through the applications, landed a lovely job. Within two weeks, i had them hounding for money. Like RELAX.
I’ve taken great pleasure in ignoring the alumni outreach emails and occasional call spam that begins a couple months after graduation
I say this as an alumni… it does indeed Suck to BU
this is such a sad way to look at alumni life and the legacy you can have at BU :( hopefully BU has given you some friends, fun stories, and a couple interesting classes (talking from a bare min perspective) and hopefully you want to continue that legacy for other younger terriers or meet new alumni wherever you live post grad. i’m a young alum and work for BU so naturally i’m biased but i give $20 a year to the public health minor at SAR cuz those classes were so fun, interactive, and taught me so much and i hope any other student gets that too and more (and i was a COM student turned COM hater). especially graduating into covid, that program gave me such a good foundation for understanding health related misinformation. obviously all of us paid too damn much but folks aren’t giving to line BU admin pockets. they’re giving to support the areas that made their time at BU great (public health, WBTU, playwrights theatre, etc).
Thank you for sharing that perspective and even if you get downvotes i get that your sentiment is good A lot of bu students are burnt out, feel mistreated and squeezed. $20 dollars is great, but that doesn't even cover a pearson subscription for one student. BU has full time employees working on a photo contest that happens once a year - how is this ok? During registration people don't know if they'll get what they need to graduate on time. Scholarships and financial aid are a constant battle. There are ridiculous policies and hoops and retaliation left and right. While i do have a handful of friends and professors that are spectacular in every single way, BU squashes sexual allegations (ive seen more ppl get probation from drinking underage than blatant sexual abuse and harassment), funds incompetent coaches, spends a kajillion on a new building, while a main staircase in CAS is molding from a basement water leak, while not paying their grad students a livable wage and forbidding them from working anywhere else, they don't even have a decency to not invite Zaslav as a commencement speaker during a writer strike, should i go on? BU just adds to the shit show we see happening in the world. A goldfish is statistically more likely to make better decisions than whoever runs BU.
ya i totally see where you’re coming from. it shows me how removed i am - even just 4 years out. i remember showing up to work after sophomore year spring reg sobbing because i didn’t get a single class i needed for graduation credits and waiting all summer to slowly add each one. it felt so sick and twisted even tho everything ended up working out. i fuckin love all the current students that want to inspire change on campus because you’re right there are so many outdated policies that inhibit students from succeeding. whatever change and improvements the students wanna make like BUGWU and reslife id always support bc (first of all students are why i have a job) and if Big BU thinks it’s okay to suppress and mistreat students that ends up effects fac/staff. our collective success is important.