 It's a tradition that was introduced to us by everyone's favorite friends. It's called Friendsgiving. And now the idea of celebrating Thanksgiving with friends is spreading like wildfire here at BU. The sensation of Friendsgiving has spread around BU because everybody makes such good friends here that it's like their family and Thanksgiving is the time to be with your family and share it with those you love. I personally love my family and like having a Thanksgiving with my family. But to be totally honest, the actual meal was kind of anticlimactic because I had already had a Thanksgiving meal and it's just as delicious here and the company is just as good and the drinks are flowing just as heavily. So it's a great alternative. Friendsgiving might sound like an ambitious alternative to mom's home cooked meal, but a team effort and multiple contributions inevitably lead to an impressive array of food. There was dessert like apple crisp and a pumpkin bread pudding, I believe it was. And there was also cranberry sauce and turkey, mashed potatoes and squash, green beans, butternut squash, a salad, stuffing, that was pretty much it. It exceeds everyone's expectations every time. It's been very successful, somehow the turkey comes out and it's cooked and it's not undercooked and it's not dry, even though none of us have cooked a turkey before in our lives. And the stuffing, the mashed potatoes, the squash, the desserts, they're literally everything on the plate this year was a home run. This unique holiday tradition gives students the opportunity to truly acknowledge the friends they have chosen as their family here at BU and it's safe to say that everyone is thankful for a second Thanksgiving meal. Thanksgiving is nice because you do realize how thankful you are to have family, but especially at school when you're away from your family all the time, you have to take the time to appreciate your friends who are your family at school. So friendsgiving is a perfect combination of doing that. All you need is a kitchen and a few good friends. Reporting for BU News Service, I'm Monica Aktar.