Hometown: Basking Ridge, NJ

Concentration/major: Information Systems, Computer Science

Activities: Women Innovators Network, Start@Shea, Computer Science Society, Smart Women Securities, intramural soccer

Favorite class?: TechTrek, where you travel to Silicon Valley and visit tech companies and experience that atmosphere—and what’s not to love about the free food? Just being there, I knew I definitely wanted to have a career in tech. And because of the great business skills and analytical skills I got from my other BC classes, I could easily see myself having a business role in one of those major tech companies.

Most formative experience: Serving on the executive boards of the Women Innovators Network and Start@Shea, which are pretty similar in that they’re trying to increase the reach of entrepreneurship on campus, to show that the tech business is not just a Carroll School thing and not just a male thing. Through both, I’ve gotten to host a lot of cool events, make connections with alumni, and find out what they’re doing in the real world.

Hometown: San Francisco, CA

Concentration/major: Finance, Computer Science

Activities: Women Innovators Network, Arrupe International, club cross-country

Professional: Incoming investment banking analyst, Citi

Favorite class?: Portico helped direct the way I’ve approached the rest of my college career, and it informed community with my classmates. It’s also really cool that your Portico professor is your academic advisor for the next four years. So your first semester, you get to know your advisor in a small classroom setting. That encourages students to go to their advisors later with questions like “I need help with an internship!” and “I don’t know what I want to do with my life!”

Most formative experience: Co-founding and running the Women Innovators Network. Our mission is to educate and empower women who are interested in opportunities at the intersection of business and technology. You could be interested in business but not be an investment banker, or in technology but not be a software engineer. We bring in speakers who are leading women in business and technology, and we host skills workshops, like in Tableau and Photoshop.

BC in three words: community, perspective-broadening, and fun!

Majors: Finance, Business Analytics

Hometown: Bronx, NY

Activities: tour guide, panelist, Consult Your Community, Business Stats Teaching Assistant/Tutor

Favorite Class: My favorite class so far has been Portico. Portico is a freshman seminar class in the business school where your advisor is your professor and you combine various current events and case studies with philosophy readings to analyze decision making and ethics within business. Aside from the subject matter being interesting I enjoyed that it was a small class (around 15 students) and that it had two extremely accessible senior TAs that sat in on every class.

Most Formative Experience: Being involved with the Student Admissions Program as a tour guide and panelist. Reflection is a huge part of BC's academic identity and spending three hours a week talking to families about my own BC experience has caused me to learn so much about myself through the questions that families throw at tour guides and panelists.

BC in three words: rewarding, growth, fun

Hometown: Wilmington, DE

Major/Minor: Accounting / History

Activities: Student Admissions Program, Residence Hall Association, Appalachia Volunteers, Various Intramural Sports 

What has been your most formative experience (so far)? When I came to Boston College, I was expecting to have very intense discussions about faith, spirituality, philosophy, and social justice in classroom settings, mostly through the core curriculum. However, something has surprised me greatly, and has absolutely been one of the most formative experiences I've had thus far, is that those conversations are not exclusive to classroom settings. It is not uncommon on campus to be asked questions that will challenge you and force you to be reflective during lunch or dinner with your friends in the dining hall, late at night with your roommates, or during one of your meetings for one of the clubs you're involved with. It's a really special community to be a part of. 

Your BC experience in three words: challenging, reflective, energizing

Hometown: Saint Paul, Minnesota

Major/Minor: Finance / Computer Science

Activities: Information System Academy E-Board, Shea Center for Entrepreneurship, Teaching & Research Assistant for Prof. John Gallaugher, Flying Circus (Drone Club), and intramural sports

What has been your most formative experience (so far)? It was a spring course that focused on technology and emerging markets, and the summation of the course was traveling to Accra, Ghana and staying with local entrepreneurs to learn about their businesses.  It was one thing to learn about these companies in class, but to be able to see them first hand was a remarkable experience.  So many of these companies focused on solving real, impactful problems that affected every day life. Companies there focused on things like providing weather information and fair market prices to rural farms, or stopping counterfeit medications with text based verification systems. We don't see many new companies or technologies in the United States that can have such a direct impact on the standard of living for millions of people as compared to what is being developed in Sub-Saharan Africa. Being able to see this was not only formative in terms of my formal education, but more so in my outlook of the world and my views on other cultures.

Your BC experience in three words: challenging, genuine, fortunate