Before you read on

Our pick of the week is Thursday’s scholarship entry: $5,000 toward your future cost of attendance at Babson, and the only way to enter is in person.

Looking further ahead: Culture Fest and a fireside with Alumni Ventures are both on Tuesday, October 20, and the 16th annual Babson Trading Competition is Wednesday, October 28.

Full details on all four are just below, followed by the day-by-day calendar with 12 more events this week.

Please RSVP on Engage. We depend on accurate counts to plan events well.

If a link will not open or a registration will not go through, reply to this email or write to gradstudentcouncil@babson.edu.

Featured this week · Thursday, October 15 · Make Your Mark Celebration

Two $5,000 scholarships for grad students

Thursday, October 15 · Enter in person 4:30 to 5:10 PM · Babson Commons

Make Your Mark Scholarships: Write In Person for $5,000

4:30 to 6:00 PM · Babson Commons · Open to graduate students in every degree track · No sign-up needed

At Thursday’s Make Your Mark Celebration, the Babson Alumni Advisory Board will award four $5,000 scholarships, and two of them are for graduate students. Eligibility is based on current and continued enrollment and good standing at the College, regardless of degree track, so every graduate program counts. The scholarship is applied by the College to the future cost of your attendance at Babson.

How to enter: come to Babson Commons and write a response to a prompt that is only revealed at the event. Entries are collected in person between 4:30 and 5:10 PM, winners are selected on their responses, and you must be in the room when your name is called after entries close, so plan to stay for the announcement.

Why it is happening: October 14 and 15 are Make Your Mark, Babson’s annual days of giving, with a goal of 3,000 donors to unlock additional scholarship funding, support for student clubs and organizations, and key campus initiatives. Because the goal counts donors rather than dollars, every gift moves it forward, so please make your gift. For club leaders: the three SGA or GSC recognized clubs or organizations with the most donors to their fund on the leaderboard at midnight ET on October 15 win $2,500, $1,500, and $1,000.

Tonight · Tuesday, October 13 · PE/VC Club and the Cutler Center

HarbourVest Economic Forum: A Fireside Chat with Brett Gordon MBA’98 and Scott Voss MBA’99

5:00 to 8:00 PM · Winn Auditorium · Opening remarks by President Spinelli · Reception to follow

Two Babson MBAs from HarbourVest Partners come back to campus tonight for a conversation about where the economy is heading and how private equity is responding. Brett Gordon MBA’98 is HarbourVest’s Chief Operating Officer and serves on the Babson College Board of Trustees, and Scott Voss MBA’99 is a Managing Director and Senior Market Strategist at the firm.

On the agenda: the macroeconomic picture and how private markets firms are navigating a higher-rate environment, the energy transition, and the wave of capital moving into artificial intelligence, along with a candid look at how a global private markets platform decides where capital goes and how it underwrites risk.

It is a good fit whether you are recruiting for private markets or simply want a clearer picture of the forces shaping the economy this year. Please register so the team can plan the reception.

Thursday, October 15 · Graduate Center for Career Development

Graduate Fall Career Fair

3:00 to 5:00 PM · Knight Auditorium · Open to all current graduate students · Pre-registration required

The Grad CCD’s Fall Graduate Career Fair brings hiring managers and recruiters from multiple industries to campus for one afternoon. Some companies are recruiting for full-time and internship roles, and others are coming to build relationships with current students for future opportunities, so it is worth going whether you are actively applying or just starting to explore.

Before you go, pre-register through the Engage listing, then open its Employer tab to see which companies have registered and the types of positions they are recruiting for, so you can plan who you most want to meet.

Saturday, October 17 · GSC Social Series with BFAT

Apple Picking at Shelburne Farm

11:00 AM to 2:00 PM · Shelburne Farm, 106 West Acton Road, Stow · Carpools leave campus at 10:15 AM

The GSC and the Babson Food and Agriculture Technology Club (BFAT) are heading to Shelburne Farm in Stow, a family orchard about 40 minutes from campus, for a Saturday of apple picking, hot cider donuts, and a few hours away from your laptop. This week the farm is picking Honeycrisp, Macoun, Gala, McIntosh, Cortland, and Pink Lady, and there are pumpkins in the patch, hayrides through the orchard, and food trucks on weekends.

Partners and families are welcome, so bring the people who keep you going during module crunch. The day is open to graduate students in every program, and it is part of the GSC Social Series.

The farm takes card and Apple Pay only, with no cash and no pets, and the day runs rain or shine, so wear shoes that can handle a muddy orchard row.

From the Cutler Center · Wednesday, October 28

The skills shaping finance and fintech. Suffolk University’s Sawyer Business School is hosting a regional, multi-university career event where students, faculty, recruiters, banking leaders, financial services professionals, and fintech founders talk about the roles and skills shaping the industry. Hear what recruiters notice in standout candidates, explore how AI, data, risk, and digital banking are changing careers, and meet peers and professionals from across the region.

5:30 to 8:00 PM · Sargent Hall, 120 Tremont St., Boston. Open to undergraduate, graduate, and PhD students.

Register on Luma →

06 · Build Babson Better

Tell us what would make recruiting work better for you

Our GSC Student Voice Dashboard is where you can tell the council what you want changed, whether that is career support, recruiting resources, or anything else about life at Babson: post an idea anonymously, upvote what other students have already raised, and follow how we resolve it. Daniel meets with the Grad CCD every month, so the career ideas you post there have a clear path to the people who can act on them.

Share your idea →

If you are stuck on something, or you would simply like to talk it through with someone, reply to this email or write to gradstudentcouncil@babson.edu.

08 · One more thing

A little Boston history. With Friday’s Pins & Pride happening at Lucky Strike Fenway, here is a question about the ballpark down the street. Fenway Park opened in April 1912, only days after one of the most famous disasters at sea, which crowded its opening day out of the headlines. Which disaster was it?

The sinking of the Titanic. The ship went down on April 15, 1912, and Fenway Park opened five days later, on April 20. More than a century on, Fenway is the oldest ballpark still in use in Major League Baseball.