Undergraduate Blog / Tag: Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship (FME)

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Top Five Takeaways from a Year in FME

Having completed my first year at Babson just over a month ago, I have had the opportunity to reflect on the key takeaways from my most unique first-year class, FME. Because all Babson freshman have gone through the FME experience we are all familiar with Babson buzzwords such as ETA, SEERS, and CLTP. To parents…

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FME Profile: Reduce, Reuse, Rebound!

One of the most unique features of a Babson education is the school’s one-of-a-kind Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship (FME) course for first-year students. FME breaks a class of 40 freshmen into smaller groups, each of which forms and runs a company based on an entrepreneurial business idea. Each business goes through important phases such as…

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San Francisco’s Been Pretty Cool So Far! PART 1

Being that there are no San Francisco natives in the cohort (Gauthier excluded), there was a Golden Gate sized learning curve to living in this strange city. The three-hour orientation on what goes into compost, recycling, and trash was a whole new world to us east-coasters. But in all honesty, this city is a place…

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21!

This morning the Babson community woke up to the news that US News & World Report ranked Babson College the #1 undergraduate school for entrepreneurship for the 21st consecutive year! This means that Babson has been #1 in entrepreneurship longer than the iPhone, Google, and Facebook have existed. Our first number one ranking came in…

Multiple Interns, Same Department: Good or Bad Idea?

As summer wraps up and Babson classes resume, I think about how happy students are to reunite with friends and our excitement when these friends are also our classmates. How different our college experience would be if each class was a private lesson between just the student and professor? Perhaps more engaging and in-depth, but…

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How Does Your DISC Relate to Your First Year Job Performance?

Post training camp the interns returned to Venture for Americas New York office for two weeks to wrap up loose ends, and work on capstone projects. My capstone project revolves around the test Babson students know and love from FME: the DISC assessment. Turns out the DISC assessment is not just a Babson thing- it’s…

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Babson’s First Ever FME Awards: THE LENNYS

This year I have had the  opportunity to do so many things as n FME Mentor.  I learned how to use a 3D printer, helped three amazing companies throughout the year and worked with some incredible people. Shout out to the Section 5 Teaching Team. Being a Mentor has been such a humbling experience, that…

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Choosing Babson

Happy April! This month is a hectic one in the admission office as we prepare to welcome the Class of 2019 to our admitted student events. Many students are still weighing their options as they decide where to enroll next year. For others, however, they know that Babson is the place for them and can’t see…

Introducing Park Manor West!

Just this semester, Babson opened its newest residence hall: Park Manor West. This residence hall was built for first-year students, and this spaces houses more than 200 students! This residence completes the first-year quad, which is home to four residence halls—Park Manor West, Park Manor North, Park Manor Central, and Park Manor South—that help with…

Setting the Scene: an Introductory Blog

I am greatly excited to begin working as an Admission Fellow! As a first-year student, the first organization that I joined was the Admission Ambassador Program—often abbreviated to AAP. Before coming to Babson, I had a terrific experience with the admission staff—shout out to Hannah, Court, and Blair—and I wanted to pay it forward by…