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A student reacts to watercolor painting at the opening reception for "Under a Dismal Boston Skyline"

“Under a Dismal Boston Skyline”

National Postdoc Appreciation Week cook-out

National Postdoc Appreciation Week

students eat bagels to celebrate breaking fast after Yom Kippur

Bagel Break-Fast

Two students dance to Drake at the Boston University Black Community Welcome Reception.

Black Community Welcome Reception

Boston University students enjoy a clambake behind the George Sherman Union, August 9, 1977

Clam Bake ’77

Tenn Buick surprises Swasti Shukla on their 10th anniversary with a flash mob proposal in front of Warren Towers, the place they first met, on Sept. 15, 2018.

Love at First Dorm

A student reads some physics in the shade of Marsh Chapel.

Reading

Students study the new mural in the student government office

Mural

People mingle in "A Few Conversations Between Women" exhibit

A Few Conversations Between Women Exhibit

Classroom

Old-School

Culture of Health Accelerator Scholars

Culture of Health Accelerator Scholars

Students gather on Nickerson field for SPLASH

SPLASH

Fall Arts Fair

Fall Arts Fair

Tie dye at the First Day Festival

Tie dye

Incoming Boston University students gather on Nickerson Field for the Student Activities Office Activities Fair in 1987.

SAO Activities Fair

new students make paper lanterns

Making paper lanterns

A BU drummer marches during matriculation

Matriculation

Students move into housing at Wheelock

Wheelock Move-in

A student unloads a mattress in front of Marsh Plaza

Losing a Mattress

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Move-in

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