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Aug

18

Summer Interns This Is Your Babson Blog As I realize that many of you will be visiting our campus over the summer, I thought I would allow our two summer interns to introduce themselves. Asa Cary is a rising sophomore from Baltimore, MD and is extremely excited to be working at Babson this summer. Asa is involved with ...

Aug

18

Business Plan Competition at Babson This Is Your Babson Blog There is a terrific post on the NY Times small business blog about our student busines plan competition. Check it out here: http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/babson-competition-winners-sell-viral-videos-healthful-foods/?dbk Happy Monday!

Aug

18

Wooo Admitted Students! This Is Your Babson Blog Admitted Students rock my face. This past weekend we had Basically Babson Day. This is when all the admitted students are invited to come and visit Babson, see what classes are like, and meet current students. This was fantastic! All of the students that I met were outstanding students. They all ...

Aug

18

Where did it go!? This Is Your Babson Blog I am constantly shocked by the fact that time seems to speed by quicker and quicker every semester! It seems like I just came in as a first-year, wondering what Babson was going to be like, if I had made the right decision to come here, and how my experience ...

Aug

18

Babson or Atlantis? This Is Your Babson Blog This post goes out to a friend of mine, whose life goal is to build Atlantis. Babson currently looks like Atlantis. I heard from someone that we had gotten 20 inches of rain this month. Currently it is pouring outside and the streets and sidewalks are like rivers. I am ...

Mar

27

Invitation to Visit this Spring This Is Your Babson Blog Last weekend, the first day of spring coincided with 70 degree temperatures in Boston. If you’ve never been to Boston in the spring, you really must come. Actually, if you’re also beginning your college search, there’s no time like the present. Campus is brimming with visitors – both newly admitted ...

Mar

27

Babson Is the Place for Me! This Is Your Babson Blog If it wasn’t for my wonderful scholarship provided by the Posse Foundation in coordination with Babson College, I would have never heard about this school. As a junior in high school in New York City, I attended an Upward Bound Program to prep for SATs and State Exams. While attending ...

Mar

27

Just Incredible. This Is Your Babson Blog This blog entry was posted from the Artic by Undergraduate Admission Intern John Chartier (2011). He, along with four other Babson students and an Olin College student travelled to the Canadian Arctic over spring break to conduct research on the effects of seasonality of the ice roads on diamond mines ...

Mar

27

A Bucket List Check-Off Frenzy This Is Your Babson Blog This blog entry was posted from the Artic by Undergraduate Admission Intern John Chartier (2011). He, along with four other Babson students and an Olin College student travelled to the Canadian Arctic over spring break to conduct research on the effects of seasonality of the ice roads on diamond mines ...

Mar

27

We Don’t Just Build Houses! This Is Your Babson Blog This post was written by undergraduate student Stefanie Chow ’10 from El Salvador on the Habitat for Humanity Spring Break trip. It is the fourth day of construction and things are starting to wind down. One of the two houses we were assigned to is complete, and the other did not ...

Mar

27

A Habitat for Humanity Poem This Is Your Babson Blog This post was written by undergraduate students Lauren Garey '12 and Chandra Kelley '12 from El Salvador on the Habitat for Humanity Spring Break trip. Building houses for those in need? Can we do it with unbeatable speed? Can we make a difference in just one week? You wonder and now a student will speak… There are ...

Mar

27

Adventures (and then some) in El Salvador This Is Your Babson Blog This post was written by undergraduate student Deirdre Malo '10 from El Salvador on the Habitat for Humanity Spring Break trip. Hola desde Ahuachapán, El Salvador! Twelve students and two staff members from Babson’s Habitat for Humanity chapter are currently in El Salvador building homes for the week. We arrived on ...

Mar

27

Congratulations to the Class of 2014! This Is Your Babson Blog Congratulations to all those students admitted to the Class of 2014! Unfortunately, our interns are on break this week, so they cannot congratulate you themselves. However, they left me with some words about why they chose Babson. First, here is Meredith's perspective: Why I Came to Babson Looking back, my decision to attend Babson ...

Mar

27

Change of Seasons This Is Your Babson Blog Hello from the admission office! I am finally coming out of the haze that we refer to as reading season. For the past three months, my colleagues and I have been reviewing applications as we shape the next first year class. I love reading, and consider it a privilege. Learning ...

Mar

27

Why I Chose Babson This Is Your Babson Blog I just realized that I have yet to answer the question that I get asked the most. Why did I choose Babson? Well to start with I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life when I was a senior in high school. When I started looking ...

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 ...