Culture out in the Robsham Ticket Office. These are huge perks, since all of the museums generally charge a $15 admission fee and Aquarium tickets cost a whopping $22. While free MFA tickets have always been run of the mill, BC2Boston, a new branch of UGBC, is responsible for opening up the other museums to the student population.
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Where can your BC ID By Emily Akin / Culture editor It’s really remarkable how much we disrespect our Eagle IDs. They get thrown into jumbled purses, slammed down on the counter at Late Night and too often dropped on the Comm. Ave bus. But if you knew how much that little bugger could be saving you out and about in Boston, you might not be quite so tempted to challenge your friends to a game of ID paper football in Mac. And we’re not just talking about the ambiguous college student 10 percent off discount which can be found at many clothing stores and restaurants.
The group also provides discount tickets to Broadway shows and concerts through the Robsham Ticket Office. “The point is to give students an opportunity to experience all of the great things that Boston has [to offer] that we can’t do because we’re poor college students,” said Maggie Farrell, A&S ‘15 and the fine arts coordinator for BC2Boston.
Thanks to the history and fine arts core requirements, many students know that admission to the Museum of Fine Arts is free when you present your ID at the desk. What you probably didn’t know is that as BC students we also have free access to the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum, the Science Museum and the New England Aquarium. For most of these venues your ID will give you free entrance at the door, but tickets for the Aquarium and Science Museum are handed
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city for fun can be harder to swing with our packed schedules. Slater explained that this was one of the driving motives for founding the branch of UGBC: “BC2Boston started two years ago with the idea that there were a lot of BC students who were expressing at the end of their time here that they hadn’t really explored Boston,” she said.
BC2Boston sold discounted tickets to Ellie Goulding’s concert on Jan. 23 at the House of Blues through the Robsham Ticket Office. In a demonstration of the program’s success, tickets sold out approximately two minutes after the online box office opened. Besides strictly cultural events, BC2Boston strives to “promote events that are more inclusive of the entire BC population, so we’re not just putting on events that might just satisfy one pocket of students,” said Tim Koch, A&S 2014 and deputy director of BC2Boston. This means that students can also score discounted Celtics, Red Sox and Bruins tickets through the Robsham Ticket Office. Sarah Slater, A&S ‘13, director of BC2Boston, said that these events are all about picking what the city has best to offer: “You normally get all these ‘Things to do in Boston’ lists and you don’t know what to pick, so that’s what our goal is. To help you choose! We want students to experience the typical Boston things, the iconic Boston experiences.”
A lot of students feel tied to the campus on weekends or overwhelmed by the amount of events on campus during the week. The result can be a senior who graduates without ever really getting to know the great city of Boston. Our BC ID should act as a passport to the rest of the city, not a chain and ball which keeps us confined to the Cleveland Circle bar scene. Take the opportunities provided by BC2Boston and enjoy our proximity to one of the greatest cities in the country this semester. Make sure to stay on top of the events by checking out the BC2Boston’s Facebook page or the Robsham Ticket Office’s calendar of events.
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Besides these Boston-centric events, BC2Boston also hosts its own BC-exclusive trips-- Eagle ID required for admission. These fun experiences, such as pumpkin picking, are aimed at getting students off campus and out into the Greater Boston area. Many of us are dragged out of the Chestnut Hill bubble by work or volunteer commitments, but getting into the
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