At this time tomorrow, I will be landing at Heathrow, readying myself for the first leg of my European journey.  I have read applications from the UK for the past three admission cycles, but I have yet to visit these schools.  Needless to say, I am quite excited to visits with students at TASIS, the [...]

Well, I survived my first week of travel.  New Jersey treated me well, and I was excited by how many students I saw at schools despite the fact it was the first true week of school.  Visiting you all at your high schools is one of my favorite parts of my work.  I enjoy meeting [...]

I am sitting at my desk this Friday morning thinking that the inevitable is about to happen. It is the last morning for this academic year that I will not be thinking about applicants, essays and where the closest Starbucks is. And though I look forward to it, I dread it as well.  Once travel [...]

As much as I love working with my students and at Babson, I have to admit that vacation is awesome.  Last week, my husband and I went to Nantucket.  For those of you non-New Englanders, it is a small island off the coast of Massachusetts. It is our most favorite place to vacation; we even named [...]

Every year, I am fortunate to attend the annual conference for the Overseas Association for College Admission Counseling.  As I realize most of you are scratching your heads about what this organization might do, it is a regional organization of admission officers and college counselors. Typically, we are broken up by American geographical regions (New [...]

Hello there!  We have been having one of the rainiest Junes in the history of the world, so I have been too depressed by it to write much…. So, I am looking to our students who are doing neat things with their summers for inspiration. (All I have to offer for a post is my [...]

At our recent on-campus program for admitted students, Alex Sousa, a graduating senior, gave the welcoming address to our visitors. Throughout his time at Babson, Alex has developed as an entrepreneur and as a student of the world, working and traveling extensively in several developing regions in Africa. His involvement with a Babson MCFE project [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]