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Mar

07

Spring Break to Mr.& Mrs. Babson This Is Your Babson Blog My vacation for spring break is paid in full and I am really excited because I paid for everything for myself. It will be my first really vacation with my closest friends from Babson. Since we are all senior we decided that Miami was appropriate. We haven’t made concrete ...

Mar

07

Spring Break!!!! Wait…in the Arctic?! This Is Your Babson Blog Around this time of year the trim dinner conversation inevitably winds up going something like this: Beaver Believer Student 1: “So, what are you doing for spring break?” Babo Enthusiast 2: “Oh, I’m heading off to ____________ (insert tropical island, Caribbean getaway, Florida Mainstay or Mexican resort here). My trim conversations have ...

Mar

07

2 Words: LASER TAG!!!! This Is Your Babson Blog Ok I don't know when the last time you went to play laser tag was, but you need to go now...seriously stop reading this, Google where the nearest laser tag place is and go spend 30 minutes playing. That's what I did this weekend. We drove 40 minutes to a ...

Mar

07

Vagina vs Modern Warfare?!!?!?! This Is Your Babson Blog This past week/ weekend was absolutely amazing. Firstly, I saw the performance of the Vagina Monologue. If you have not seen it... it should be one of the performances to watch once you are on campus. Not only is the play provactive it is also eye opening to many of the ...

Mar

07

Return to Childhood This Is Your Babson Blog Have you ever had a week where you just wish you could return to childhood? It could be a longing for playful summer days or maybe you just wish someone would do your laundry for you. Well this past week was my week to long for those days gone by. ...

Mar

07

Moving Right Along This Is Your Babson Blog Campus is bustling right now. Everyone is going through the usual motions for the semester. In addition to being wrapped up in homework, meetings, and projects, a lot of neat events are going on. Yesterday was the FME Business Fair - the annual sales kickoff for all the freshmen FME ...

Mar

07

Week 4 and the Semester is flying by This Is Your Babson Blog Hi All, It's been a while since I posted something on here. I would like to say congrats to all the Admitted students. Babson is such a fantastic place to be and I am so sad that it is my last semester. However, I am having a blast and enjoying every ...

Feb

03

Back into the Swing of Things This Is Your Babson Blog We're almost done with the 3rd week of the semester already! Time is flying by and I feel as though I've only just gotten back from winter vacation! It's never a dull moment on campus, and its especially true of the spring semester for me. Only a few days after ...

Feb

03

Confusion This Is Your Babson Blog This semester has started off with a bang.....*BANG*....get it? Sorry for my horrible humor. In all honesty though I don't really understand what is happening this semester. For some reason everyday feels like it is completely full. I think I'm just taking much more difficult classes this semester and that ...

Feb

02

Twas the Night Before the Deadline This Is Your Babson Blog Hello readers! We are super busy anticipating tomorrow's deadline. To let off some steam, the admission staff attended the women's basketball game last night. Here we are showing some Beaver pride! We are Beaver Believers! Some of you may be making a last minute decision about whether or not to apply to ...

Jan

13

On our way to bruised thumbs… This Is Your Babson Blog Hey Ya’ll! Greetings from Thibodaux, Louisiana! Today is our third day working in the Bayou area Habitat sites and so far we have worked under a house, on the side of a house, inside a house, and on the roof of a house! We have sided, insulated, painted, tiled, and ...

Jan

13

On our way to having bruised thumbs… This Is Your Babson Blog Hey Ya’ll! Greetings from Thibodaux, Louisiana! Today is our third day working in the Bayou area Habitat sites and so far we have worked under a house, on the side of a house, inside a house, and on the roof of a house! We have sided, insulated, painted, tiled, and ...

Jan

13

Momoaha! Hello from Ghana! This Is Your Babson Blog Greetings from Ghana! (Momoaha is welcome in the afternoon in one of the native languages, Fanti) I'm here on the Ghana trip with Dean Hanno and a fantastic Babson team! There are 45 of us here, including undergraduates, graduates, 3 staff members, Professor Stephen Deets, and Dean Hanno. Our team is ...

Jan

12

Day 2: A Tale of Two Sites This Is Your Babson Blog "Work like a champion today" Today was the second day of work at the Habitat for Humanity Bayou site on Babson's Katrina Relief Alternative Break Trip. Our team was split up into two groups today; Emma, Cathy, Andrew, and Mike remained on Bon Jovi Blvd. to paint, while the rest of ...

Jan

11

All in a Day’s Work This Is Your Babson Blog "Work hard - it all comes back to you." It was our first day on the Habitat for Humanity (Bayou/Louisiana) job, and it was pretty amazing. The weather surprised us - it was definitely a lot colder than we anticipated (23 degrees when we woke up!) - but we had a lot of fun despite the ...

Jan

09

A Warm Welcome in Ghana This Is Your Babson Blog I am one of forty-five Babson students, faculty and staff who recently left for a trip to Ghana teaching business and entrepreneurship to local high school students and adult learners. We were warmly welcomed on our first day by the Ashesi University community, after our 6 a.m. arrival and quick ...

Dec

29

Walking in a Babson Wonderland This Is Your Babson Blog The campus is caked in beautiful white snow after this weekend's storm. It's the perfect winter weather, not warm enough to melt the snow but not freezing enough to cause slips and falls on black ice (yes, I've been a victim). The campus is eerily quiet as pretty much all ...

Dec

29

What I’ll Miss Most This Is Your Babson Blog Sometimes it's the good times that make me the saddest. Last night when my roommates and I should have been studying for our finals we were playing around in our kitchen instead. We ate snacks even though we were not hungry, we laughed at things that weren't that funny and ...

Dec

29

Think Babson is all Business??? This Is Your Babson Blog Think again! This past weekend I travelled to New York as a “roadie” to watch four of my Babson friends play a couple gigs in the City! These four Babson students are the typical Accounting, Finance, Strategy, and Marketing majors—but are all in a band together on the side called ...

Dec

29

When it Rains, it Pours This Is Your Babson Blog Now that everyone’s back from Thanksgiving break and is ramping up for the last two weeks of class and finals (arghhh!!), everything is starting to come faster and more furiously than ever! Due this week, I’ve got: A presentation and marketing plan for my Marketing Communications course, A presentation for my Marketing for ...

Dec

29

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year…Kind of This Is Your Babson Blog This time of year is always an interesting experience for me. It is just a two weeks until Christmas break, but to get through those few weeks is a battle. Within the next two weeks I have to write 3 papers, as well as do 4 finals. So by no ...

Dec

29

It looks like folders have taken over my office This Is Your Babson Blog Well, I have not written a post in quite some time. My travel season ended up well with a great last week in northern New Jersey. I visited lots of great schools, and my college roommate and her family. Kerrie, my college roommate, has a two year old son, Kyle. ...

Dec

29

Cancellations This Is Your Babson Blog If I had to sum up today's week in one word it would be cancellation. Now y'all are probably smart enough to have figured that out from the title, but it is true. The weeks started off not looking so good because I had so much school work to do ...

Dec

29

Almost Turkey Day But Not There Yet This Is Your Babson Blog Hi All, Almost of the students on campus has either left for home or went to some place nice for thanksgiving. The point is, the campus is dead unless you are an athlete of some kind. It is great because a normal Babson student get the entire week off which at other school apparently ...

Dec

29

Now I’m Hungry. This Is Your Babson Blog For my first blog I will address an issue that is near and dear to all of our hearts. It influences our lives day-in and day-out. We get questions about it here in the Admissions Office all the time. You may pretend that it doesn't influence your choice of institution ...