With Thanksgiving break just around the corner it is just about time to start preparing for final exams. As students finish up final papers, tie up loose ends on group projects and start making study guides, various offices around campus prepare fun stress relief activities for students. The activities range from Midnight Pizza handed out…
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Hello again everyone, Now that I’ve spent a little over a month at my internship at ACG New York, I see a considerable trend of communication that focuses more on intrapersonal relationship building, social capital, and personal selling. The corporate culture of my internship is business professional. A lot of very high level professionals are…
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Today I’m excited to be announced as one of 20 finalists in Microsoft’s Challenge for Change competition. This contest challenged students ages 18-25 to present ideas for change in communities around the world. I have a simple request for your help over the next week. Please vote once a day for my entry and help support the…
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Babson has great alumni- we all know this to be true… amazing leadership and representation all over the world. One key element of this that always strikes me is how so many of our alumni and friends want to give back to Babson and connect with our current students. A great example of this is…
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With the school year coming to a close, Babson has remained busy with several campus events. A couple weeks ago, Babson had a Social Media for Social Good competition to encourage students to utilize social media to assist non-profit organizations. In addition, the athletic and performing groups on campus have been preparing for a strong…
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My Leadership course, taught by Professor James Hunt, recently had an assignment to write a vision statement about our lives and futures. I wanted to share my statement as I found it to be a compelling exercise that really got me thinking about what it is that I value in my life and where I…
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Last week was one of my favorite weeks of the year: Random Acts of Kindness Week! (and for you social media fiends, #RAKWeek) I first learned about the awesomeness of #RAKWeek during my first year at Babson, when my class steering committee decided that the week would be a great way to spread positive thoughts…
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What school would be crazy enough to give a group of nearly thirty students $3,000 and tell them to go start their own business—from start to finish—on their own, making their own decisions. Welcome to Babson College. I am currently working as the VP of Corporate Social Responsibility at MixItMug, a real-life, operational business, run…
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Team BRIC has been radio silent on the blog, mostly due to travel, adventure and fun getting in the way (and partly due to some censored sites in China). We are now happily settled in India and I promise some more updates soon. But until then, I wanted to share some photo memories of our…
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The BRIC team said goodbye to St. Petersburg last Friday and spent a brutal 17 hours traveling to Shanghai through Moscow. Instead of a line to re-check our bags at the Moscow airport, we found a mosh-pit of humanity and we won’t ever reclaim those two hours of our lives lost fighting our way to…
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