Hello again, potential BC students!
I'm very happy to announce that...midterms (at least for me) have been completed. It's still weird for me to think that midterms happen in October in college, but I guess that's what happens when your university courses equal a year's worth of high school material! It's totally manageable, but it takes a lot of time management.
On a completely different note, if you come for a tour, an information session, and/or a day visit (all of which I recommend) on campus right now, you will see a few areas that are fenced off and hear the lovely sounds of drilling and general construction. Boston College is currently undergoing some major renovations. One of them is a refacing of Gasson Hall, the very first building to be erected on the Chestnut Hill campus in 1913. It is from this building that the style of architecture of all other buildings on campus is based. All of the exterior bricks are being removed from Gasson, will be exactly replicated, and will be returned to their original locations. All of this will be completed by 2013, the 100th anniversary of the building. Since Gasson housed many classroom spaces, some classes are being held in residence hall lounges (which can be extremely convenient if you live in that hall) and other buildings around campus. However, I'm very excited to see this project be completed, especially because Gasson is by far my favorite building and, in my opinion, the most beautiful on campus.
Another development on campus is a brand-new building that will be called Stokes Hall. By the spring of 2012, it will provide the BC community with a student center, a new dining hall, and many new classrooms for the humanities. There currently isn't one central location or student union where all students here tend to gather, so a lot of us are eager to see this building go up. For the time being, the construction of Stokes Hall has changed pedestrian traffic on campus because it is being built on a section of the Dust Bowl, the campus green. The area has been temporarily fenced off, consequently obstructing a main pathway from one of the dining halls to the academic buildings. The Dust Bowl, as a whole, is a central part of Boston College, where one can find the typical game of Frisbee, advertisements for events on campus, students studying outside on a warm autumn day, and public demonstrations. You can read this article to get a sense of how this green space on campus will be missed for the next 2 years. You can also see take a 3D tour of Stokes Hall to see how this building will change the face of campus.
Also, a renovation that is more likely to interest all of you is one that happened to the second floor of Cushing Hall, where the Connell School of Nursing is located. The administration area has a new reception desk and shiny glass doors through which one enters. Also, the student lounge is a completely different place. Before it was just a room where there were a few couches to sit in between class and file cabinets where you could pick up announcements and graded assignments from professors. Now, the lounge has bright yellow walls, a computer where you can print out papers, tall cafe-style tables and chairs, a refrigerator and a microwave. I feel that I find more students using the lounge now because it is just so much more inviting. It's a great place to get work done between classes or just meet up with fellow nursing students.
Well, that's it for now. Please contact me if you have any questions at all. To any seniors that might be out there, don't get too stressed out over applications! For anyone who applied Early Action, I wish you all the best!
Peace, love, and brisk autumn weather
Malika
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