Residential Life

Housing

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 Greycliff Honors House, multicultural and inter-cultural floors, alcohol- and tobacco-free floors, a quiet floor, a social justice floor, and a community living floor.

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 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

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. Click here for detailed information about the dining services at Boston College.

Athletics

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.

To learn more about the force that is BC Athletics, connect to http://bceagles.cstv.com.

Technology

Boston College offers state of the art technology to all students.

The Student Learning and Support Facility (SLSC), located in the O'Neill Library, is Boston College's main computer laboratory on campus. The facility holds 70 Macintosh's running OS9.02, 80 IBM PC's running Windows NT4, 2 color scanners, 6 e-mail stations, 2 music stations, 6 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 SLSC, as well as all dormitories, are connected to BC's high-speed T3 Internet connection, offering lightning fast connections to any Web site Also, these computers come loaded with the latest software applications including Microsoft Office 2000, Macromedia Dreamweaver 3 (Web site development), Adobe Photoshop 5 (graphic design), and more. For a complete software listing, click here.

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.