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This time in the form of stickers, making the message more accessible to everyone!

Show your disappointment with Babson’s social life and living situation – proudly display one of these new stickers on your laptop or somewhere visible!

If we don’t make our opinions known, OCL won’t do anything to improve our campus life! If we just sit back and take it, they will keep neglecting us!

It’s time that we get our money’s worth here at Babson!

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In my last paper, I was writing about lessons learned in one of those HBS cases that got me thinking about Babson. And it just happened to be a good topic for CrapCampus. The issue at hand was a new business ventures unit, and the cool thing they did was have a fluid board of directors. That meant that the board changed as the needs of the venture changed, providing the needed services at the right time.

I like that plan, but I consider it the exact opposite of my Babson education. The education here is more like the “give you a bunch of info, test you, then you get a degree so you can get a job in some cubicle.” Typical, but not what I was hoping for from a school that can claim “#1 in Entrepreneurship for 7 years now” or whatever it is up to. Obviously they need to be an accredited school and all, but I didn’t come to learn how to be a good employee. (Which makes sense, cause who would want an employee that makes websites like this?)

What I’m getting at is the lack of widespread support for entrepreneurs. Yes, there’s the e-Tower, the hatchery, and whatnot, but those spaces are severely limited. And since we’ve been doing some posts with constructive criticism, I’ll throw this out there:

As stupid as it is to make student businesses “register” here like Babson is the federal government, the “chamber of commerce” has done one thing right – the free legal services for students. You get some quick advice from a real lawyer about your business, when you need it. Hence the title of Timing. We do learn some good stuff in class, but who actually remembers those specifics years after graduation?

I guess that free legal advice is pretty limited too, but it’s a step in the right direction. It wouldn’t surprise me if that one good idea came from a student, because I can’t recall any good ideas that have come from OCL.

(Actually, I can remember some half-decent ideas they had… however, they never executed these ideas…)

Before I get into my blog today, I want to take the opportunity to thank everyone for their support. I’m relatively new to the crapcampus.com blog, but so far all the other bloggers and visitors to the site have been very supportive of not only the project but my contributions to it, as well. If you like what we’re doing here, please don’t hesitate to speak up and share your thoughts since that is the best way for us to make changes around campus.

Having said that, I would also like to encourage people to try and contribute not only their honest opinions of Babon but also suggestions for improvement. I know we all have been taken advantage of big time by Babson and the administration, and they certainly deserve to get any bad press that comes their way. But the way I see it (and by all means correct me if I’m wrong), the crapcampus.com project is more geared towards making a change at Babson by uniting around a forum where we can share our thoughts, ideas, gripes, and suggestions. After all, the crampcampus.com web site states the following:

“Our goal is not just to make schools look bad. We just want to show what they are really like. Hopefully then they will realize that some things need to change.”

I want to make it clear that I’m NOT discouraging comments in any way. Part of the greatness of the site is your ability to anonymously vent your frustrations about the school, so feel free to blast away. But at the same time, keep in mind that powerful alumni, Babson administrators, and others are also viewing the site, and they can actually make changes in the school. If they show up here and just see a destructive war zone against Babson, then they will likely just write off a lot of our quality thoughts and opinions and try to shut us down. But if we contribute in a way that shows we are organized and have thought things out, then it gives the project a great deal of credibility to influence change. Not to mention if you make some good suggestions, the people in power might come across it and try to make it happen, you just never know.

All I’m saying is to put yourself in Babson’s shoes (I mean after all, that’s basically what we’re asking them to do for us). If someone came up to you and said, for example, “Babson sports suck,” what would you do about it? You probably wouldn’t have any idea where to start. I mean should you get better athletes or rennovate the fields or find new coaches or what? But if someone says, “I hate watching Babson sports because there’s no school support or spirit. They should have a beer tent up at the fields for every home game so we can get drinks, tailgate, and watch the game,” then you might be able to do something about it.

So anyway, that is my two cents. I mean everyone who visits this site has the ability to tear down the Babson world that the administration has created (and which the vast majority of students hate), and I’m definitely encouraging that. But you also have the ability to make your own world up through your thoughts and comments, and I’m definitely encouraging that, too. Granted, the world you create might not get built exactly how you want it to in real life, but contributing constructive ideas might spark others, and changes really will happen.

Ok, so I’ll get down off that soapbox and step onto another one for today’s real blog…

As much as I can’t stand Babson and the way I get treated as one of their customers, I would like to follow my own advice and take a different approach in my blog today. I feel like my complaints would be remiss without any constructive suggestions to follow, so I have decided to chip in with one easy (and cheap) way for Babson to improve the life here at Babson: target Roger’s Pub.

While most people around campus hate the pub, I think it could be a key to a social turnaround at Babson. It gets a terrible rep because of the crowded Thursday nights. I can understand that. I mean how can we have a good time when we can barely walk around, it takes an hour and a half to get our beer from an extremely understaffed bar, and when we do get our beer some tool that’s spitting game at some disgusting swamp donkey spills it all over the place and removes all hope of forgetting, even if just for a couple hours, about this horrid school. Of course that’s not fun.

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No, I’m not doing any downgrading… Standard & Poor’s is! Why should you care then? That’s easy – they are downgrading Babson!

Yes, indeed. Babson just can’t seem to keep control of its finances. You can read more in this article in the Boston Business Journal, but I figured I would quote a bit for you:

Babson College touts its reputation for entrepreneurship training. However, one trait rarely shared with the public is that the school, laboring under years of budget deficits, has been downgraded twice in the past four years by Standard & Poor’s.

Wow, twice in the last four years! That’s no laughing matter. Even worse, Moody’s gives a negative outlook for the future. Ya know, when this happens to big companies, they usually make some changes…

I propose that (other than just firing them, which sounds like a pretty good idea) all Babson admin should sit through a semester of IME 2 to figure out some basic finance.

I was thinking about the theory proposed in an earlier post, about a bunch of little complaints adding up. It is so true. In general, when anyone asks what I think of Babson, I tell them I absolutely hate the place. But when I think about it, there isn’t a big, universal reason for that. It’s just a ton of little things that seem to ruin everything.

For example, let’s think about Trim Dining Hall. It’s pretty good – a fairly wide selection of food that is usually edible. But there are just so many things that screw it up. Let’s look at them right now…

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