Winter at Boston College

Dogwood
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:20:09 +0000

Mom43 - fyi - Parents’ weekend is 9/26-9/28. You might want to get your hotel reservations now. Boston is pretty crowded during the fall and the Sox are playing the Yankees that weekend, so it will be a busy, crowded weekend. You do want to get tickets for the “Pops on the Heights” concert that Friday night. It is at Conte Forum, is usually sold out (students do attend with their families) and it’s a lot of fun. A boxed dinner is included and depending on the tickets you purchase, drinks (wine/beer) are included. It is an event to raise money for a scholarship fund. If you get there early on Friday, you can attend classes and there is usually a reception that afternoon as well. The football game is Saturday (playing URI this year) and the Sunday Mass (outdoors) is especially nice. You can purchase your tickets during Orientation. You can also check out the weekend on the BC site (although not sure if it is updated for '08, but you can at least get a feel for what goes on that weekend).
As for the BC/BU rivalry - the BC students have a special cheer for the BU kids - “It s*** to BU.” Not nice, but I don’t think they will ever abandon it.