Comedy and College GameDay

Hey Guys!

My name is Paul Holder and I am a sophomore in the business school's honors program. This weekend was great- on Friday, the freshman honors class and various members of the other classes including myself went to the Improv Asylum in Boston's North End. The show consisted of a group of 5 improv artists who did various comedy sketches, and it was hilarious! Of course, one of the perks of being a BC student is being close to the North End, where a 40-minute T ride can take you to world famous restaurants and delicious dessert shops.

As Alex mentioned in the previous post, Gameday and the football game on Saturday were fantastic, and the tribute to cancer patient and BC football player Mark Herzlich was truly inspirational.

Tonight, however, I have to study for 3 tests in 2 days, so I should probably get started! If you have any questions about the honors program, Boston, or anything, feel free to contact me!

Take care,

Paul Holder
CSOM '12
paul.c.holder@gmail.com

Great Weekend!

Hello,

My name is Alex Mannherz and I am a sophomore in the business school. I just wanted to let you guys know a little bit about my weekend at BC.

My weekend focused around the BC's football game against an ACC rival in Florida State. My friends and I woke up early Saturday morning to go to College Gameday; a football pregame show on the ESPN network. I was in the front row and it was crazy. The show focused around the inspirational story of Mark Herzlich's (a BC football player) battle with cancer. Following the show, I went to the actual football game at 3:30 in Alumni Stadium. The student section had a great turnout and the stadium was loud. I was lucky enough to go early and get seats in the second row. It was an exciting game and the BC Eagles were able to come out with a BIG WIN thanks to a long touchdown run in the fourth quarter. Saturday was an awesome day full of football and school pride!

If you have any questions about football or anything else about BC feel free to shoot me an email at mannhera@bc.edu. I look forward to hearing from you guys.

Talk to you soon,

Alex Mannherz
CSOM '12 Finance
mannhera@bc.edu

Read All About It!

Hello Friends,

This may serve more as a shameless plug for myself and this blog, but I was interviewed by The Heights, the independent student newspaper of BC. Here's a link to the story. I always pick up a copy on Mondays and Thursdays. They do a pretty good job of keeping administration in check and letting the student body know of issues around campus. My favorite section is the Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down section which falls under the Opinions page. If you have time definitely check them out. There are so many clubs and organizations on campus, never limit yourself to just walking the halls of Fulton as a CSOM student.

Until next time friends …

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

As If There Was Any Doubt

Hello Again,

So I know what you may have been thinking. Yeah yeah yeah ... first day of school and one company decided to show up as a favor to some wealthy alumni or connection. Well guess again. I snapped this photo walking through the Dustbowl of representatives from Ernst & Young. (I got a free Frisbee from them too!)

They weren't the only visitors to campus and CSOM recently either. Google stopped by for the day as well. Alums Jeffrey Wu and Tae Kim have worked for Google since before the IPO at HQ and in several of the firm's global locations. Students got the scoop on web search quality, fraud-fighting and Google's overall global efforts! All in all a pretty exciting week in CSOM, and it's only the second one.

Until next time friends …

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

Classes have started ... and so have the company visits

Hello Again,

Well classes began today and the campus is electric again. After a long and sometimes painfully quiet summer, the Heights are abuzz with students running from class to class and eager freshman going to the wrong rooms or trying to find their way through the sea of students in the Quad and Dustbowl. I was walking into a class in Fulton and couldn't resist snapping this picture on my BlackBerry.

It's a table representing Deloitte and Touche a major international and accounting firm that is always around campus. They really know the caliber of students in the Carroll School of Management and have had countless students intern and go on to work with them. Just wanted to show that the companies are out early, and you should be too as prospective students. Look for these kinds of opportunities at all the great schools you are considering applying to.

Until next time friends …

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

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