Given that this year’s Orientation is completely online, incoming students may feel socially behind and removed from campus life. Here are some of Boston University’s online communities you can join to get a head start on your next four years.

BU’s Center for Career Development and the Questrom School of Business’ Feld Center for Industry Alliances co-hosted Boston University's annual school-wide career fair Feb. 13. According to Louis Gaglini, the executive director of the CCD, more than 1,500 students showed up for the four-and-a-half-hour time the career fair ran.

Career fairs, resume-building workshops, advising sessions — all of these are useful tools to get college students ready to leave the safety of their university bubble and enter the daunting workforce....