Undergraduate Blog / Tag: Boston

Tips for Staying Organized During Your Internship

Your summer internship is an awesome opportunity to get a glimpse into professional life after college. With this, however, comes the insight that the real world is busy: juggling traffic, deadlines, meetings, as well as maintaining a work-life balance can get stressful. Over the past few weeks, I have learned some ways to make the…

Business Communications and Promotion in the Era of Social Media

For the past two weeks, I have settled into my internship position at Tru, Inc., which is a start-up based in Natick, MA that produces functional performance supplements. As an intern, I am the head of Social Media Operations in regards to the outreach and management of social media influencers! What are social media influencers?…

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Five Things to Add to Your Babson Summer Bucket List

Even when the academic year closes, many students are on or near the Babson campus, taking summer classes or perhaps working their dream internship in Boston. For those living on campus over the summer, the first year quad and surrounding residence halls might feel like a ghost town. As a native of the Greater Boston…

New Opportunities with the Boston Red Sox

This summer I am working for the Boston Red Sox as the Concerts and Entertainment department intern. As a member of a four person department it is under my responsibilities to handle logistics, planning and execution of all summer concerts. This includes VIP parties, stage and seating set up, ticket sales, and artist relations. Our…

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Concert at House of Blues

  One of my favorite things about Babson is the proximity to Boston. Whether you want to go to Fenway Park to catch a Red Sox game, or go for a walk along the beautiful Charles River, there is always something to do. Boston is also home to some great concert venues, including the House…

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A Cultural Outing!

If there is one advice I can give to prospective and current Babson Beavers, it is to take advantage of unique opportunities that this place has to offer! Opportunities may range from consulting as students for multibillion-dollar companies to school-sponsored cultural outings. And for me this week, it was going out for a theatre night…

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The Best of Both Worlds

Stop me if you’ve been to one of our info sessions and heard one of our counselors say something like this before: “Boston is the world’s best college town.”  While this may be our opinion, it’s also on the internet! Check out this study by the American Institute for Economic Research, naming Boston the top…

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Joining the “Start Up World”

Five weeks into the summer and just after leaving my first internship, I lined up another opportunity at a company called RunKeeper, a Boston-based start up app that tracks athletic activities such as running, cycling, hiking, etc. This opportunity came at the perfect time and I began almost immediately after I left the brewery. My…

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Can I Bring My Car?

The first day of October brings me to Princeton, New Jersey – a truly beautiful place! In order to complete my travel and access all of the schools and amenities of the local Princeton area, I need a car. Without my rental Chevy Impala, I’d be stuck; however, this is not the case for Babson…

Boston's Upcoming Fall 2012 Events for College Students

This past week, Boston World Partnerships’ executive director asked all the interns to keep Friday morning free for a collaborative meeting with a few other Boston area companies that would be taking place at the Mass Challenge space. Along with BWP, World Class Cities Partnerships, TEDxBoston, Greenhorn Connect and Helena Fruscio, Creative Economy Industry Director…