Now at some point, this kind of absurdity has to stop. A very close friend of mine was beginning to prepare to return to fair, fair Babson, and he began to go and check over the My Housing section of Babson’s portal.  And my, wasn’t he surprised and joyous when he saw how wonderfully the new staff of OCL is operating?

Abso-fucking-lutely NOT!

Instead it was more of shock and horror for my fellow final semester senior (December Grads), as when he checked his housing arrangements for his Putney single, he immediately noticed that Babson had paired him up with a roommate! He called me up quite distressed at the thought of spending the last semester of college with a roommate he’s never met and probably won’t get along with. Immediately thinking he may have screwed up, we tried to figure out if there was any way that he meant to click on a different one. After a few hours of pouring over how my friend must have selected a double on accident, we realized that he indeed did select a single based off of what the online floor plan map of putney third floor displays.

So my buddy emails housing and tells them that the screw up is definitely on them and theres no way they are going to put two kids in a single and that there is no way he is going to have a roommate his last semester here.

OCL’s Housing email address responds: We are sorry but we cannot help you with this. Please contact your area director.

Thats it. Thats the end of their email. Now excuse me, and pardon my french, BUT THOSE FUCKING MORONS LOOK LIKE THEY’RE STILL USELESS! I think OCL should be reinterpreted by the students to mean, Off Campus for LIFE. I MEAN THEY DIDN’T EVEN TELL HIM WHO IS HIS NEW AREA DIRECTOR!!!!! WHAT THE FUCK?!

I 100% know that improving student service is a strong concern for some of Babson’s administrators. And I know one of the reasons OCL was restaffed was to hopefully prevent idiots from making mistakes like this and also so if things like this did happen, they’d be quickly caught and repaired before they became an issue.

Dean Hanno, we’ll be meeting soon.

Bryan “Reverend Esby” Steward

PS: I’m really curious how many of these OCL mistakes happen that I don’t hear about. Want your story posted? IM me on AIM, Reverend Esby, and tell me how it is.

We’ve got a few new things to update you all on before you arrive.

First and foremost of the crapcampus priorities, we now are arranging regular weekly meetings with the office for undergraduate deans! Finally someone is willing to bring us in to the reformative process that babson needs! Although, our consulting comments/critiques are still being offered for free, we are excited to embrace our new friends in Babson’s faculty. Read more »

Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to brighten your day with a little story about graduating from Babson and never having to go back again. Fellow graduates, congrats. Everyone still there, just pray that it will be over soon.

On to the story…

May 19, 2007 was a wonderful day. Not just because I graduated, but because I graduated before Babson ever applied a damage charge to my bill. If you lived in Map Hill, you were probably dreading a $95 minimum charge, just for the elevator BS we went through. But for some reason, I got my diploma before I ever saw the damage charges!

Maybe it was an oversight by Babson, or just that they can’t get the damage charges ready until the end of May (when every student would get their damage charge, not just graduating seniors.) Either way, close to 400 students seemingly escaped the damage charge.

I did get an email about the $95 bill at the end of May, though. And so did my friends. But hell, who’s going to pay the bill once they’ve graduated?

Before I got too deep into thought about whether or not Babson would send out a collection agency to track down its own alums, I decided to actually look at my bill. And I liked what I saw!

On that day, the damage charge had not yet gone from OCL and through SFS to actually get applied to my bill. However, I somehow got a $200 credit on my bill – turns out they reversed that bogus $200 “senior fee” they stuck us with at the beginning of the year! So Babson owed me $200.

What did I do? The only logical thing, of course.

I submitted a refund request through the Babson portal for $200. I was expecting it to get canceled or adjusted, so I just sat back and waited.

Then the next day, which I think was June 1st, that $95 got slapped on my bill. But I never had a problem with the refund request…

So I sat back and laughed about how I might have just screwed Babson out of my $95 bill. And sure enough, a few days later, I got a spiffy check from Babson for $200!!

You read that right. Babson sent me $200 and left the $95 charge on my bill! Talk about a disconnect between their admin offices…

Best of all, I didn’t bother paying the $95, and eventually Babson just took it off! So in the end, I got off scott free!

It was probably some gesture to get me to stop posting rude stuff on this site, but there’s no way I’ll give up for such a minuscule amount (after about $170k for tuition…)

I had to keep this on the down low for a while, but I’m hoping that all the other seniors spotted this exploit and took advantage of it. It’s the least we could do after Babson screwed us on the shitty Map Hill elevator!

Graduates, please share your stories in the comments.

And current students – be sure to keep an eye on your bill in the days after graduation!

This has nothing to do with Babson, but I thought it was pretty funny.

It’s the “Best of Craigslist” for Boston.

Check it out for cool items for sale and funny stories that were posted to get the word out.

Take this cat for sale…

If you have been exposed to chipping lead paint, you could be at risk for some health problems. If you have lived in an older dormitory, you could have been exposed to lead paint…

See the link below for full details:

The Lead Paint Report