The Fourth of July is this week, and in New England, that date is kind of the unofficial start to summer. I know technically, summer started a little while ago, but here we’ll start to hit the hot weather and people start taking vacations. This is the time of year I always think about what…
With the best playoffs in professional sports about to start, I felt, as a Boston-area school, we needed an emergency Stanley Cup breakdown from Babson blog legend, Hannah Moriggi. Hannah is, legitimately, the most knowledgeable hockey fan I know. We’re talking about her watching regular season games, not bandwagon fans like me who tune in…
“Christine Kenyon will see you now.” That’s what I half-expected to hear just before Asa and I went in to speak with Christine; she’s a busy lady these days. The last few weeks have been a transition for Christine, or “CK,” as we often call her. After five glorious years at Babson College, she is…
I’ve tried, I swear. I’ve written two full blogs and started parts of others and nothing was coming out right, so I scrapped them all. After writing the hard-hitting piece on Tommaso, I thought I would have smooth sailing in writing for our blog, but no such luck. I’m going to blame Hannah. Because she’s our best…
Tweet it, Tommaso! A familiar phrase in our office. It doesn’t really matter what we’re talking about, but if we think something should be shared with the public or saved for posterity that’s what we yell at him to do. However, as some students have asked us, who actually manages our social media efforts? Well, that man,…
Going back to my last two blogs and my failure to meet the $300 challenge (Part I and Part II), I was, at some point, going to have to pay with my pride. Well, without going into too many details, I will report that a bunch of us from the Office of Admission attended a…
I’m sorry. I can’t believe I left all of you hanging like that. So much has happened since I wrote Part I of this odyssey. In our office we have been reading applications, we’ve had Valentine’s Day, we’ve had our Women’s Overnight Program, we’ve been reading applications, The Oscars were handed out, and we’ve been reading applications. Oh, also, we’ve been reading applications. So, in…
For some reason people always ask what I do on a daily basis as an admission counselor. This could be for a number of reasons: my bizarre travel schedule throughout the fall, followed by the rare occasion of seeing sunlight while I read applications from November through March, or perhaps they just get the feeling…
Because I know you were all dying to know, I didn’t have a good week picking the NFL playoff games last week. I started out hot in the Wild Card Round, picking all four games correctly, but pretty much struck out last week, picking only the Patriots game correctly (thankfully). So, I’m not making any predictions this…
First off, I applied to colleges in 1997. Do you know what was going on in 1997? Hold on while I Google 1997 stuff…Return of the Mack was a top Billboard hit, which you really can’t argue with because it’s a jam. Tim Duncan was drafted first overall in the NBA Draft by the San…
