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This race takes place on Patriot's Day and attracts more than 500,000 people every year..
What is The Boston Marathon
100
This campus department staffs over 250 undergraduate and graduate students who help manage life in BU housing, responding to emergencies, helping navigate conflicts, and promote educational opportunities for learning
What is the Residence Life Department
100
He was a talented football and baseball athlete for BU and the Boston Red Sox and our arena on campus is named after him
Who is Harry Agganis
100
This BU vehicle has an app which shows you it's location, it's pick up locations, and if it's running on-time.
What is the BU Shuttle
100
The name for this formal process of joining a university. At Boston University the students will walk from all areas of campus to the Agganis Arena to be officially entered into the University
What is BU Matriculation
200
It's the one of the only places in the world where a boat can sail under a train going under a car that is driving under a plane.
What is the BU Bridge
200
This center on campus is home to Alternative Service Breaks where students develop leadership skills by traveling the country with the purpose of volunteering
What is the Community Service Center
200
These are BU's official colors
What is Scarlet and White
200
This Boston public transportation system is helpful and cheap to navigate the city and comes in different colors: Green, Blue, Silver, Red, and Orange.
What is the T
200
This boat race attracts hundreds of thousands of spectators each year, takes places October 22-23, and brings in more than 11,000 athletes.
What is the Head of the Charles Regatta
300
Opened in 1912, it's the oldest original stadium in the country.
What is Fenway Park
300
This center on campus hosts Coffee and Conversation, one of many programs offered to promote a center for common interests.
What is the Howard Thurman Center
300
When the Boston University Charter was established
What is 1869
300
This popular ride through the city points out popular, rich history of our city and travels by land and sea.
What is Duck Boats!
300
This team has a home game this weekend at Nickerson Field at 1:00PM vs. American University
What is the BU Women's Soccer team!
400
The largest art theft in history took place in Boston on March 18, 1990 when 12 paintings worth $500 million were stolen from this museum
What is The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
400
This office on campus is home to many services for students, including Handshake, the online hub for career resources, including internship and job listings.
What is the Center for Career Development
400
This person invented the telephone here in a Boston University labratory
Who is Alexander Graham Bell
400
This station is home to the commuter train, bus terminal, Amtrak, and the MBTA.
What is South Station
400
These two offices will be holding an open house on Friday, September 23rd, at 11am, Yawkey Center Room 101. There will be lots of resources and development!
What is CCD and ERC
500
This area of Boston has been around since 1634 and is the oldest public park in the country
What is The Boston Common
500
This office is home to the Writing Assistance resource, where students can sign up online to get a 45 minute appointment with a writing fellow to improve your writing!
What is the Educational Resource Center
500
As a mentor to Martin Luther King Jr., this individual educated Dr. King on the idea of nonviolent protests and has a center on campus named after him.
Who is Howard Thurman (Howard Therman Center)
500
This company has two nearby locations on the river in Cambridge and Allston where you can rent canoes, kayaks, and paddleboards.
What is Charles River Canoe and Kayak
500
This next talk of this on-going BU series is slated to take place on September 29th, 7pm at 10 Buick Street – Student Atrium. It will include The Problem with Democracy, Spiritual but not Religious – Is Religion Disappearing from American Life?, and Language Memory and Attrition in a Mobile, Multilingual World.
What is BU Rhett Talks
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