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Starts: 5:00 pm on Thursday, April 3, 2025
Ends: 6:00 pm on Thursday, April 3, 2025

Landing your first job? Learn how to turn your first paycheck into your first investment. This workshop will equip you with the financial knowledge to build wealth, manage debt, and create a budget that supports your city lifestyle.The keynote speaker for the Money Mindset series is Researcher, Innovator & Certified Financial Education Instructor Ray’Chel Wilson. Ray'Chel is an award-winning education strategist and international author with 7+ years of experience serving over 5000 learners in healing their money mindset & reaching their wealth goals. As CEO of Raise the Bar Investments, a financial education social enterprise, Ray'Chel guides individuals, groups, & organizations on how to better their "money moves", build their financial wellness, & decrease generational wealth gaps. This event is part 2 of a 2-part series that is co-hosted by the Newbury Center, the Center for Career Development, the Questrom School of Business Undergraduate Development Center, and the Questrom School of Business Feld Center for Career & Alumni Engagement.

Location:: Virtual
Registration:: https://bu.joinhandshake.com/events/1611982/share_preview

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Thriving Globally: Your Wellbeing and Academic Success Abroad

Day: Thursday Oct 30th Time: 5:00pm - 6:00pm ISSO/Study Abroad Office: 888 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 240, Boston, MA 02215

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HTC Live Fridays! The Halloween Edition

Day: Friday Oct 31st Time: 12:00pm - 3:00pm Howard Thurman Center, 808 Commonwealth Avenue

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Student Experiences

Exploring, Learning, Growing:

Kuhu Bhattacharya (QST ’28) gives us a peek at her Questrom experiences and how she’s learning and growing beyond the classroom.

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ISSO Insights

OPT Season is here!

For students who are currently enrolled in their final semester, the application window for Post Completion OPT will begin on Saturday October 18, 2025. ISSO will begin processing OPT recommendation requests for graduating students who would like to apply for OPT with USCIS starting on Tuesday October 14, 2025.

For F-1 students who wish to apply for this benefit, please see several important resources on the ISSO website:

Post OPT Workshop dates– The first virtual workshop is scheduled for Monday October 6!
OPT application process and timeline

Culture Corner

Halloween. A fun, exciting, and silly day that may seem like it is just centered around costumes and candy, but its traditions actually come from fascinating legends and rituals that go back centuries. Here are a few fun facts about Halloween that you previously might not have known:

Ancient Celtic Roots: Halloween actually traces back over 2,000 years to the ancient Celtic festival called Samhain. The Celts believed that on October 31st, the boundary between the living and the dead blurred, and spirits could roam the earth.

Jack-o’-Lanterns: The tradition of carving pumpkins comes from an Irish legend about “Stingy Jack,” a man who tricked the devil and was doomed to wander the earth with only a carved turnip lantern to light his way.

Trick-or-Treating: This fun custom comes from medieval “souling,” where poor folks would go door-to-door on All Hallows’ Day, offering prayers for the dead in exchange for food. It evolved into the candy-filled tradition we all love today.

Bigfoot: Also known as Sasquatch, this legendary ape-like creature is said to roam the forests of the Pacific Northwest. Despite tons of sightings and blurry photos, no one’s ever caught definitive proof, making Bigfoot a perfect Halloween mystery.

So, what’s your Halloween costume for this year?