Que Modest Mouse’s Gravity Rides Everything:
Flying down 1-90, we past hundreds of lights that blurred together like a landing pad. As we touched down and slowed, getting ready to exit, the white dashes in the road guided our van back to school. Reaching the parking lot, we each got out of the van, grabbed our [...]

One Month to Go….
Hello readers! As many of you know, we released our decision letters for admission for Fall 2009. For many of you, the month of March signifies the end of the marathon-like college admission process that you have undertaken. There is the training period- your schoolwork, extracurriculars, testing, etc- followed by the selection [...]

This post was written by undergraduate student Marissa Ferber ‘09
Goodbye Louisiana!
Yesterday before we boarded the plane for home, we took a trip to the lower 9th ward in Louisiana, where the levy broke and the largest impact of Katrina hit. The night before, Doug showed a few of us pictures from his trip to New [...]

This post was written by undergraduate student Rosa Ortiz ‘11
So Tuesday we lost a member due to dehydration and well wednesday didn´t go so well either…we lost three more members due to some more sicknesses. Good news however, they are all doing great now and have been taken care of.  Work was tough on that [...]

Today was gloriously bright with sunshine and…dirt. Lots more dirt to fill in the foundation of one of the homes we have been working on. Luckily, that started to level off right about the time the cool of morning did. Later on into the day, we worked right behind the masons, filling in the gaps [...]

As a senior at Babson, I feel a sense of urgency when I look at the calendar and see that only weeks remain until graduation.  And yet, there is still so much that can be accomplished in this narrow window of time.  The past few days in Thibodaux, LA have proven this.  Building homes for [...]

Greetings from our LAST POST ON BON JOVI BLVD!
Today we chose to wake up the house by blasting High School Musical. We refused to turn it off until Pat Wolenter finally got up and left the room so the girls could change. So Doug “One-Way” Pottle stood there kicking Pat’s air matress for a good [...]

Allons-y (Let’s Go) New Orleans!
Last night was an adventure, as always. We started the night by eating local cuisine, complete with alligator. We have learned that every single thing in Louisiana is fried. So at our table included: fried pickles, fried alligator bites (which somehow Melissa liked), fried cornbread (hush puppies), fried catfish, turtle…we started [...]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day from New Orleans!
FIrst, we are going to begin by explaining what we’re doing here, as we neglected to address this in our earlier post.
Our team of 15 students is led by Josh “fearless leader” Stevenson, Professor Kevin “Can I have a piece of that?” Tuthill, Doug “One-way” Pottle, and Bill “I [...]

This post was written by undergraduate student Tazmun Nahar ‘12
8:00am this morning officially ended our rest and restore period as we pulled away from a gorgeous resort in La Paz, El Salvador. It was fun, relaxing and exactly what we needed after traveling all day on Saturday but we were all anxious to see and experience [...]