Accepted Students
Boston College has so much more to offer undergraduates than just a great education. Community service, clubs, activities, and much more offer a very rich college experience to all students. In addition to various places to eat, study, and relax, there are numerous executive lectures and cultural events taking place around campus on a daily basis. Through electronic communication, we keep you informed about them all.
Agora, the BC online student services Web site, allows students to update contact information, check library books, look up student accounts, financial aid information, degree information and much more all in real time. This Intranet environment requires users to sign in with their Boston College username and password (credentials). Accepted students should contact student services for directions on how to obtain this information.
Residential Life
www.bc.edu/reslife
Undergraduate housing at BC ranges from double and triple rooms, to four bedroom suites, to high-rise apartments and townhouses. Freshman housing is located on both the Newton and Upper campuses. Special-interest housing includes Honors House, multicultural and inter-cultural floors, substance-free floors, a quiet floor, and community living floors.
Residence halls and individual floors sponsor their own social and cultural programs. The Residence Hall Association also schedules campus-wide events: football and hockey road trips, a SpringFest Carnival, and the Breaking the Barriers Ball.
Each hall is led by a residence hall director, a full-time professional who lives and works on the premises. Trained resident assistants; undergraduate and graduate students; coordinate hall activities, act as peer leaders, and implement University policy on their floors. Resident and peer ministers and members of the Jesuit community conduct liturgies, offer counseling, and sponsor floor retreats.
Dining
www.bc.edu/dining
BC Dining Services offers a wide array of foods, from your favorite comfort foods to gourmet entrees to hamburgers, pizza, and ethnic cuisine. The University operates seven dining facilities, open as early as 7:15 a.m. and as late as 2 a.m. Take-out meals are also available.
Athletics
www.bceagles.com
Boston College is renowned for its state of the art athletic facilities and top notch athletic teams. Whether it's football, hockey, basketball, baseball, softball, tennis, or beyond, BC has always been known for an intense, competitive athletic edge. Undergraduate students are an essential part of that edge, thanks to the existence of the SuperFan.
All undergraduates are immediately invited to become SuperFans upon arriving here at BC. You're given and encouraged to wear your gold shirt to all games here at BC, and roar for the success of the Eagles.
Technology
www.bc.edu/its
Boston College offers state of the art technology to all students.
The Computing Technology Resource Center (CTRC), located in the O'Neill Library, is Boston College's main computer laboratory on campus. The facility holds 11 Macintosh's running OS9.02, 99 IBM PC's running Windows NT4, 4 color scanners, e-mail stations, 2 music stations, 7 docking stations for laptops, floppy vending machines, and VMS/Alpha access for use by the Boston College community. Furthermore, all computers are equipped with ZIP drives to facilitate more flexibility in file movement.
All computers within the CTRC, as well as all dormitories, are connected to BC's high-speed T3 Internet connection, offering lightning fast connections to any Web site.
Also, all undergraduate dorms are equipped with an individual telephone jack for each student (2 jacks in a double, 3 in a triple, etc) so each student has a private voice mail and a private phone number which remains constant for all your years at BC. Each student also receives a private cable jack, so each dorm can have as many TVs as students.
Boston College has highly invested in Internet technology and has developed many high-end web interfaces. Agora, the BC online student services Web site, allows students to update contact information, check library books, look up student accounts, financial aid information, degree information and much more all in real time.
