#bu orientation

Luke Walsh (CAS’16)

Psychology Major, Education Minor, Warren Towers RA, Admissions Ambassadors Coordinator, CAS Dean’s Host, Scarlet Key Recipient, Passionate Traveler, Kayaker, Avid Pizza Enthusiast 

“What’s your most memorable experience as a student leader?” 

“So two summers ago I worked for Orientation and we did a skit and ours was Scooby Doo themed, and there was this one scene where everyone danced to “My Milkshake Brings All the Boys to the Yard.” So, I was the milkshake. The whole Orientation experience, the whole process, was amazing and I loved opportunities to work with the students and see them when they came back to campus in September. But it was funny because people would be like, ‘Oh, you’re the milkshake!’ So it’s funny that out of that amazing leadership experience, people would recognize me as the milkshake, which is very funny. Just being able to unite with or connect with such a wide variety of people and to be able to be viewed as someone they could approach -- and say, ‘oh, you’re the milkshake’ -- I think that’s the tone of what that summer of working at Orientation set.”

“What do you love about CAS?”

“I really like how big CAS is. Everyone’s graduating from CAS, but the amount of degrees that they’re getting and the wide array of classes they offer is pretty incredible. I’m taking an American Families Sociology class that I never thought I would be able to fit in, but it’s very, very cool, and it’s cool to me to think that this is what my peers are studying for their entire four years. So just the huge variety of everything that CAS offers.” 

“What’s the most beautiful place you’ve ever seen?”

“It’s either standing with scuba gear on, standing at the back of a boat overlooking the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, about to jump into the most famous reef in the entire world, or, Milford Sound in New Zealand, which is considered the eighth wonder of the world. It’s amazing. It’s basically like a body of water but it’s been carved by the mountains, so it’s literally a body of water with enormous mountains coming out of it. There’s no sand or shores, it’s literally water hits the mountain and it goes up.

I studied abroad in Sydney last spring, and it was probably one of my favorite experiences at BU. It was just such an incredible opportunity, and the people that I met there were amazing -- I had never met them before, and they’re some of my best friends now. As a graduating senior, I would say they’ve become my best friends. And I also got two international work experiences while I was there; I had two different internships that BU pretty much handed me. I just felt like while I was there I felt so much more free, because I could travel pretty much every other weekend, we went out during the week... It was just a lot of fun.” 

“What’s something you’ll never forget from your time at BU?”

“I think probably just the wide variety of people that I come in contact with every day. And not just in my job that I do every day and the stuff I do on campus. There’s such a wide variety of people in everything that you do. When I go home and talk to my friends over breaks who go to state schools or other schools that aren’t as international or anything as this, to them it’s weird that I know people from Tokyo or Saudi Arabia, but to us it’s commonplace. Which, I think, that global sense of BU that I didn’t expect -- I knew it was there but I wasn’t expecting to be that impacted by it. And I think that is probably my favorite part about BU.” 

“If you could do it all over, what advice would you give to current students?”