The school year was coming to an end and I had no internship. Not because I didn’t try, I applied to 3 REU (research experience for undergraduates) and endless other positions. I randomly contacted a researcher at UMass Medical School and was offered a volunteer position. Great. Either way I decided to make the most [...]

Less than a week after initiation, I shipped off to Germany to finish my humanities requirement in German. I was on my own in the town of Konstanz from March until Mid-July. I did so much and met a lot of really cool people and learned way more than I’d ever expected. This is a [...]

Brother Eisenbach (2010): Last D term, I did my IQP abroad in Namibia, a small southern African nation above South Africa on the Atlantic Coast. The first thing that I noticed, upon descending into Namibia’s only intercontinental airport as the sun rose over the desert, was the beauty and expanse of the African sky. I [...]

Brother Wack (2010): This summer I got a paid internship at finalsite, a company which designs and maintains websites and backend content management systems for 300 plus Independent Schools all over the country. At finalsite I did some research into mobile-web, and completed a small iPhone program. From there I did various pieces of web-development [...]

Welcome to the first installment of a periodic publication on the vacation lives of our undergraduate members.  In this issue, Brother Dan Doherty (Class of 2010) shares an embarassing tale of outdoor misadventure: During my summer I went camping with a bunch of friends for the weekend. We had a good time hanging out and [...]