In keeping with recent years, the roughly 11,000 Terriers arriving for Move-in have chosen a specific day and time slot, from Wednesday, August 28, through Monday, September 2.
Fall 2024 campus repopulation offers students the choice of 8 am to noon or 1 to 5 pm on their day to check in at their designated Move-in location, pick up Terrier Cards if they didn’t collect them at Orientation, and move into their rooms.
A possible logistical wrench this year comes via Red Sox home games at nearby Fenway Park on August 28 and 29. On the plus side, the weekend of the Move-in period “is usually our busiest time,” and the Sox play out-of-town then, says Boston University Police Department (BUPD) Captain Lawrence Cuzzi.
To help with on-campus traffic flow, Cuzzi says, “We will have additional officers along all of the move-in routes to assist with traffic flow and parking,” specifically along or at Babcock Street, Bay State Road, Warren Towers, Student Village II, 10 Buick Street, 610 Beacon Street, and the Buswell Street/Park Drive area.
We will have additional officers along all of the move-in routes to assist with traffic flow and parking.
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.
From August 26 to September 2, to accommodate arriving students and helpers, parking permit holders’ access to the following parking facilities will be restricted/limited: Agganis Arena Outer Lot (A), no permit parking: 33 Harry Agganis Way Lot (C), no permit parking; Langsam Garage and Lot (B), limited permit parking; and Warren Towers Garage (K), limited permit parking.
Matriculation will be held at Agganis Arena on Sunday, September 1, at 2 pm, with the BU Bridge closed intermittently to traffic for the student procession to the ceremony, which begins at different times at different points between 12:30 and 1:15 pm.
Other relevant Move-in information, from BU’s Housing site:
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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!
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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