In the spirit of reliving Alumni Weekend (and the previous post,) I thought I’d talk some more about alumni donations, because that is the only reason Babson cares about their alums. That’s also the reason they should care about current students, but obviously they don’t see the correlation. (Happy students = more alumni donations)

It’s funny some of the students I talk to. The majority say they will never donate anything back to Babson, and a few say they will only donate if they can ensure that it goes to student activities.

Why is that? Because the administrators don’t seem to care about student activities. Or maybe it’s just OCL, I don’t know. But somewhere in there, students get neglected! (Hence that lengthy post about lack of community…)

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Babson, an institution that prides itself upon its ethics and management skills as being first and foremost among its principles. But strangely, more than just the majority, more like almost all of the management are not educated or trained in or even aware of Babson’s curriculum or principle beliefs. See where I’m going yet?

A long time ago, my father instilled in me that in order for anyone to take you seriously, you need to practice what you preach. If you don’t follow through, with what you profess to others, you’ll lose their trust and their respect. Pretty simple lesson for a 7 or 8 year old to understand. Yet still, it seems that someone here in Babson’s uppermost management seems to have missed that one.

Lets go through a lil bit of recent events in Administration here at Babson.

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My my my…map hill drive, what a wonderous pile of candy coated shit. To start, residents there had to pay an extra $400 on top of their normal housing payment. what this was for…god only knows. what did it buy?? LETS LIST EM OFF!

New dorm pros:
-brand new, spick n’ span good lookin building!
-full of brand new fridges, totally sweet!
-lots of cabinet space
-big windows, lots of light
-half the building gets a wonderful non-babson view

new dorm CONS:
-they dont clean the suites EVER
-they dont take out the trash, you have to drag it to a trash closet
-no personal air conditioning
-the walls are covered with a non-stick coating so you cant hang posters or hooks with tape
-the result is that you have to nail into the wall or push pin posters which leads to holes which leads to babson charging you 10x more money than normal bc its a new dorm
-cheap walls that damage at the drop of a hat. if you lean on them too hard with your elbow, it makes a dent…which gives babson more $$$$$$$$$
-shallow sinks that splash everywhere
-the washing machine one card thing doesnt work still despite several calls to the glorious company of MAC-GREY
-the keypad locks require both your oneCard and a pin to open, neither will work alone
-on top of that, if you dont hit the numbers the right way or at the right timing, it wont work, its kind of like an IQ test. when intoxicated, you often fail that IQ test
-the built in closets limit the ways you can layout your room
-the cheap rubbermaid wire shelf in the closets break often
-there is a complete lack of storage space in the dorm rooms
-in the handicapped suites two people get tiny tiny tiny rooms, and one person gets a room the size of a double, and the last person gets the middle sized room granted this is left “up to chance” its still TOTALLY dick to the people who get small rooms. i feel very sorry for them, and i hate the people who got ginormous rooms.
-when you run out of toilet paper you have to get a key from the RA to the closet to get more and change it yourself.
-there are a total of six security cameras that watch the exterior and entrances to the building at all times. that is fuckin creepy.

ALL THIS FOR AN EXTRA $400! whoopty-fuckin doo!

was on campus one Saturday night as part of our “Spring Weekend” (a few weeks ago.)  I was quite pleased with the performance. (If I had to choose the top two fun Babson events, I’d say comedians and the BDE performances. If I was allowed to choose three fun events, well, it might take me a while to think of a third…)

So yes, one good thing about Babson on here.

But what I wanted to mention is one of Kyle’s jokes on college life. It went something like this…

Colleges tell you not to drink, do drugs, or have sex. Then they put the college in some random town that’s not near anything… What do they expect? “What should I do tonight? My choices are Wal-Mart, or Susie…”

Yeah, that reminded me of Babson. What’s worse is that there isn’t even a Wal-Mart in Wellesley to go screw around in. So it looks like drinking, smoking, doing drugs, having sex, and all that good stuff is it…

Jennifer,

I honestly appreciate you going into such detail with this, I thank you. I like to know these kind of things because I want to try to find ways to make my Babson experience, as well as the experience of my peers a more fun-filled one.

I know for a fact that my fraternity, as well the majority of other fraternities, see Greek Council as a financial burden and a complete waste of our time money, money which we could put towards tower beautification or our formal or any of the other financial responsibilities that we have as organizations. The idea of the Greek Social Committee was a spur of the moment one, and not thought out. As opposed to being completely unconstructive, and critical of everything, I prefer to offer possible solutions to the dilemma.

Greek Council sanctioned events are anything but fun. The Greek organizations will not be brought together by a peanut butter eating contest, or an egg-spoon relay race, or a motivational speaker. The reason why other campuses are not allowing alcohol during Greek week is because there exists a nearby venue at which the Greeks can call “home”, at a down trodden pub called “Mack’s” or something of the sort, where the interior is anything but pristine and the drink prices are low. Not only that, but there exists such a vast social scene with such a plentitude of things to do at any given moment, that no one feels the need to drink. They are content with just knowing that there are so many things to do, as well as so many places to go. On a Thursday night, the majority of other colleges have a choice of places to go. Whether its choosing which fraternity party to attend, or what’s the hot bar scene tonight, there exists that choice. At Babson, there is no such thing, and even if there is a party someplace on campus, there’s a more than likely chance that it will be broken up and people will get alcohol violations.

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It’s a shame we get speakers like Delatorro McNeal to come here…

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As I sit here and think about it, I can now count down my amount of time left at Babson College in MINUTES. Wow, if you are looking at this site, then you should have an idea of good that feeling is.

Someone asked me the other day, “You still hate this place even when you are about to leave?” Fuck ya was my answer.

The time I am spending here right now is due to their negligence and incompetence with the office of Class Deans. Because of those fuckers, I have now had to be at school for two more weeks then I should have had to and have had to spend an extra $2 grand, plus any lost income from the job I should be at right now. Don’t you think they would audit the credits of people about to graduate before they are in the ninth hour? IT TOOK ME CONTACTING THEM to make sure I had everything to graduate and could get the fuck out of this hell hole that I have to call a college. So here I am, spending more money, wasting more time at this horrible place.

So while I am here, figure I might as comment about the office three steps away from the useless pieces of shit in the Dean’s office. If anyone has ever worked with the Center for Career Development, then they will realize that they are completely useless. From the words of a VERY successful man that owns a hedge fund, “they are the most useless mother fuckers in the world.” That is the reputation that I, as an about to be Babson Grad loves to hear from a proven successful Babson Graduate who is extremely successful and has tried with great strides to help improve the school, but with no prevail.

So why don’t we talk about improving this hell hole. Who would you go and talk to about that? My idea was Barefoot, so I wrote him a letter, stating that I have been to two other colleges, including Babson’s number one competitor Bentley. I have experienced and can see what makes each school better then the other. I offered my assistance and offered to help come up with ideas to help improve student morale and campus activities that mature students would enjoy, rather then middle school activities like breaking a computer and a printer in front of Reynolds for stress relief. So what do you think that Jackass’s response was? He sat there and demeaned me as a person and a student. That stupid fucker doesn’t realize that this school needs me now more then I need it. This school is a reflection of so many of the students here, it thinks its shit doesn’t stink and it is better then everything else. WELL it’s fucking wrong. This school sucks and it is going to be its own demise if it doesn’t change something soon. You can’t just offer a good product, but a horrible backup service. If that is the situation then you will fail, don’t believe me – ask Gateway.

So why does this school need me more then I need it. Well I have graduated and paid (That would be the full tuition cost each semester – you know the $42,000 each year) the full way, without their assistance. So now I ask you this – having the 5th richest student body in the country, why is it that we have a ridiculous low endowment? It is because of so many students like me, who hate this place and will never make a donation that will contribute to this fucking place. I say that, but I know I will donate to this school. I am going to donate $1 per year – that way it will actually cost them more to process and cash my donation then it would if they didn’t. That’s all for now, I have time on my hands as I have to take the class “Diet & Disease” in order to graduate from a Business School.

Chisumebb