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There are 2 comments on Move-in 2024: Everything You Need to Know

  1. This paragraph should be in bold type and a few font sizes larger:

    Billy Hajjar, director of BU Transportation Services, cautions that students using moving trucks, box trucks, and moving vans should avoid Storrow Drive and Soldiers Field Road in Boston and Memorial Drive in Cambridge—those roads have height restrictions as low as nine feet.

    The Top 3 Rules of moving to Boston:
    1) No moving trucks, box trucks, and moving vans on Storrow Drive, Soldiers Field Road, or Memorial Drive!
    2)No moving trucks, box trucks, and moving vans on Storrow Drive, Soldiers Field Road, or Memorial Drive!
    3) No moving trucks, box trucks, and moving vans on Storrow Drive, Soldiers Field Road, or Memorial Drive!

  2. With respect to what to bring to campus, I advise that any students who will have on-campus jobs for the very first time bring employment verification documents (i.e. passport, birth certificate, social security card). These are necessary for students to complete I-9’s, and every year we run into students whose family members have to mail these documents to campus after the fact.

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