Just Another Manic Monday?

Hello Again,

Greetings from the penultimate week of tours and information sessions here at Boston College. I’ve just finished being on a panel for one of our Eagle Eye Information Sessions and felt like I could use a break and blog.

Although today is Monday (and I’m not happy about it after a great weekend spent at the beach) I’m certainly not going to simply stay in my room and pout. Instead I have a great night ahead of me. It’s Restaurant Week here in the Boston which means all of the best restaurants are offering three course meals for $33 (227 restaurants to be exact!). I actually went to Antico Forno last night in the north end and it was absolutely fantastic. I’m going to try to hit as many as possible this week. It truly is worth it. I’m also going to frequent what has become my regular Monday night hangout during the summer, Trivia at Applebee’s in Cleveland Circle. Myself along with a bunch of the summer staff love to compete with each other and other locals for gift certificates. As a group we have dominated as of late, capturing 3 of the top four places each of the last 5 weeks. I’m really looking forward to tonight because I got a good feeling it will finally be my team’s turn to break out of our slump and jump from fourth to first.

Granted it is Monday and there is work to be done, but this is typical of any weeknight at Boston College, a balance between work/academics and spending quality time with friends. It was this balancing act exhibited by the student body that attracted me to BC in the first place. You might want to consider those kinds of intangibles when are viewing colleges.

Until next time friends …

-Luke Lapointe
CSOM '12 Finance
A & S '12 Communications
Student Admission Program
International Coordinator

Google Map Search: Undergradute Research ... Results: 1 - Boston College

The opportunity to become involved in research as an undergraduate is seemingly limited to the natural sciences. Thanks to the undergraduate focus of Boston College however, all the academic departments are keen to have undergraduates involved in research including all of the departments within the Carroll School of Management.

Professor Sam Ransbotham who taught my Computers in Management course recently won a grant from Google to conduct research on “consumer decision making in the context of visual search tools, such as Google Maps, and location-based advertising, such as Google Maps API ads layers.”

Earlier this summer he spotted me in the Eagle’s Nest (my favorite place for lunch on campus) and told me all about the research he was doing as well as talked about how each of our summers were going. He also offered me a position as a paid research assistant during the academic year with him to help conduct this research.

While BC does have several formal avenues for getting undergraduates involved in research such as the Undergraduate Research Fellows Program, the faculty really are phenomenal about engaging their students in the entire research process.

I guess undergraduate research opportunities was something I never considered when I was looking for schools because I really wanted to go to a school with a great undergraduate business program (and was under the impression there was no research going on in business). Nonetheless, having now been given opportunity to do so, I wouldn’t consider a business program that didn’t have its primary teaching and research focus centered upon undergraduate involvement.

Until next time friends …

-Luke Lapointe
CSOM '12 Finance
A & S '12 Communications
Student Admission Program
International Coordinator