wJust last weekend I traveled to Boston to visit some colleges. My main purpose was to visit the College of Holy Cross in Worcester, but I decided to see other colleges as well. We flew in on Sunday morning and met up with my parent's friends. The man asked us what we wanted to see and I said "Boston!" I had never been there before and was eager to see the city. Driving through, I was amazed at how clean and nice Boston seemed. Everyone seemed so nice. We drove past Fenway Park and then by Harvard and Boston University.
After our tour of Boston, we decided to head to Boston College. The daughter of the man we were staying with happened to be a sophomore at BC. He said she would have no objection to giving us a tour. We finally arrived at her dorm, which was actually really nice. She is in the Honors Program, so she got primo housing this year. We walked in and I first noticed how there was a common area in the middle of the dorm. The dorms were coed with girls on one side and guys on the other. The dorm rooms were the nicest that I have seen so far and I was very impressed.
She took us around the campus and first showed us the athletic center. We weren't able to go inside, but I was able to see the stadium which was awesome. She also told us how there was an amazing ice hockey arena and how the basketball games were huge. From there, she showed us the freshman dorms where she stayed last year, and they weren't nearly as nice as the ones she was in the year. There were these houses in the middle of the whole freshman dorm area and it had pool tables, TV's, and places to just relax.
Our "guide" then took us to the school store, which was really nice and had a wide selection of BC fan fare to choose from. Our last destination was the library, which was huge. There were about 5 floors for the student to study on. There was a tech station where someone could bring there laptop and have it fixed in a flash. I was very pleased with BC's campus and liked it the most out of all the colleges I had visited. One thing that was very appealing was that it was so close to Boston and a student could literally hop on the tram and take it 15 min before being downtown.
Boston College has about 9,020 undergraduate students and is located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. The cost of BC is about $46,000, with room and board. It may seem steep, but you are getting everything out of it. BC has a great athletic program along with amazing academics. Boston College is very selective, but if one has the grades to get in, I would strongly recommend it.
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