Some Advice on Advisors

Hello Friends,

With registration for classes right around the corner I thought I would delve a little into advising and class selection for CSOM students. Like every student at Boston College, students in the Carroll School of Management have an academic advisor that is assigned to them. You are required to meet with your advisor to receive your degree audit and the access code needed to register for classes. Each of these advisors are great resources for students but you should never underestimate the value other professors can have for your experience here at BC.

Case in point. I recently declared my concentration so my official academic advisor switched from who I had last year. Although my advisor for this year is great and is in my department, I really liked Professor Clarke, who really helped me figure out what I wanted to do with education and time here at BC. So I went back to her. In fact, I’m meeting with her tomorrow and she’s introducing me to another professor who she promises I will absolutely love. By the end of tomorrow I may have 2 more academic advisors! It truly is the hallmark of a BC professor: someone who is truly dedicated to the undergraduates.

In terms of registering for classes, you’re going to want to find a balance between both the University Core Curriculum, which all students must complete in their years at BC, and the Management core. It’s nice to have a balance of liberal arts courses along with your more focused courses like economics or marketing principles. Feel free to shoot me an email if you’d like some recommendations on great classes to take.

Until next time friends …

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

An Ordinary Tuesday

Hi Everyone,

My name is Mary and I am a sophomore in the Carroll School of Management (CSOM for short) concentrating in Marketing and Finance.

To start off, I'm going to go through my day just to fill you in on what any other weekday is like for me at BC. I only have 2 classes on Tuesday/Thursday; my first is Managerial Accounting and after that I have Basic Finance. Basic Finance is really interesting and I am already starting to learn concepts that big-time financial people use every day at their jobs.

After my classes, I got lunch with some friends and then I babysat for people that live really close to BC, which is great because I can walk there in ten minutes and earn some extra ca$h! Then, I had a meeting for the marketing committee for the BC Arts Festival, which happens for 3 days every Spring and is really exciting and fun! Now, I'm in the computer lab working on a finance assignment...which I should get back to now! Talk to you soon!

-Mary

A Look into Next Fall

Hey everyone,

Well it's my first update for the Carroll School of Management and there is certainly a lot going on in CSOM lately. But we won't begin with what is going on just this week, let's start with what is ahead for the incoming freshman (you guys) to the School of Management.

Next year, as I am sure all of you are well aware of, ALL freshman in CSOM have to take Portico, a sort of hybrid program that is going to replace the Ethics core in the school. Right now the the deans are interviewing potential candidates to teach the class. I had the opportunity to have lunch with one of the candidates today with a couple of fellow classmates and it seems that the deans are going to have their hands full trying to cut down the list of teachers. The man today was very excited about potentially teaching Portico and getting to interact with the students more than in his Ethics class.

Portico was the best class of the first semester. It not only taught ethics to rising freshman in the business, but also introduced all students in the class to the range of concentrations in CSOM. Researching, writing, and presenting assigned projects forced us to become more knowledgeable in the business aspect of our future learning. And the small class size let us form great relationships with each other, despite the heated debates that sometimes arose when dealing with difficult ethical issues. Overall Portico was an awesome class, and I would be very excited if I were a CSOM student of 2013 to be able to experience such a class.

I'll be talking to you guys soon,

Brian Palumbo

Heights Update

Hello Everyone!

It is crazy to think that the semester is almost over! It has really flown by.

Things have been going well these past few weeks. The beautiful fall weather has given way to some pretty cold temperatures, especially for a Floridian! I don't think my immune system can handle the drastic temperature changes, so as usual, I came down with a cold. One of the great things about BC is that we have our own infirmary right here on campus, housed in the Connell School of Nursing. It functions just like your normal doctors office and they took good care of me.

This past week, I also had the opportunity to go hear a lecture put on by our very own Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics. The Winston Center brought in Cynthia Cooper, the woman who unearthed the internal fraud of the Fortune 500 company, WorldCom. It was a great opportunity to hear her inspirational and amazing story.

I also had another really cool opportunity to go to another lecture this week by the founder of the popular Johnny Cupcakes clothing line, brought in by UGBC, Nights on the Heights, and the BC Entrepreneur Society. It was really interesting to see how this company grew from selling t-shirts with cupcakes on them out of a trunk behind a comic shop, to a multi million dollar company with stores in Boston and Los Angeles. (**The picture is from the Johnny Cupcakes lecture)

As you can see there are always a ton of things going on even during the week outside of the classroom. BC does a really good job of bringing in really engaging speakers that students flock to see.

My post here wouldn't be complete without filling you in on some BC sports action. I have been busy with Eagle Ops promoting our hockey games. In between periods, we usually hold some type of on ice competition where we take fans from the stands and put them in sumo suits and have them try to score a goal. It's a lot of fun and the crowd usually finds it pretty entertaining. Our football team just had a huge win tonight to keep our ACC Championship hopes alive. Next weekend we play Maryland and if we win, we will be heading to Tampa (my home!) to play in the ACC Championship game!

Lost your lucky charms?

Hello Everyone,

So things have been pretty crazy here on the Heights! These past 2 weeks for me have been filled with mid-terms and papers. It was a tough couple of weeks, trying to study during every free minute I had. Things went well with them and I had something amazing to look forward to once they were all done: Notre Dame weekend!!!

This past weekend was the weekend of my dreams. Boston College's biggest rivalry, Notre Dame, came to town not only for the re-match of the hockey national championship, but also an ESPN prime time night game for football. Although the hockey game didn't go so well, the football game made up for it with a 17-0 win! Notre Dame definitly lost their lucky charms!! Friday afternoon we also unveiled our Doug Flutie statue, forever commemorating his famous Hail Mary pass.

There is no greater atmosphere than a nationally televised night game vs. the Irish. It was simply amazing. After the game, nobody wanted to leave. All of the students stayed in the stands after the game, savoring the win.

So, it's Sunday afternoon and I'm busy trying to get some work done for the coming week. This weekend was definitely an awesome break from the busy workload of the past few weeks.

Registration for next semester begins in a week or so. It's exciting to look at all the possible classes to take for next semester and to try and work out the times to make an awesome schedule. This semester I am going to try and have Friday's off, which would be really nice.

Right now it looks like I will be taking Basic Finance, Managerial Accounting, Organizational Behavior, Business Law and a History class.

So long from the Heights!

GO BC!!!

Scott Landay