Week Three: Gearing Up for the Fall Semester
Week Three of our orientation program was filled with activities designed to support Fellows to get to know BU and Boston better and to prepare for the year ahead.
We are deeply grateful to the deans of the Questrom School of Business, the Pardee School of Global Studies, the School of Education, the School of Communication, and Metropolitan College, Cornelius Hurley and Kevin Gallagher of the Center for Finance Law & Policy, and McCaela Donovan of the College of Fine Arts, all of whom helped the Fellows to navigate the myriad opportunities available to them across BU’s Charles River Campus.
In Week Three, we focused intensively on Fellows’ Individual Program Plans (IPP) and fall course schedules. In addition, we held four successive, interactive workshops—one on refining the “elevator pitch” led by Bank of America Senior Vice President (and BU alumnus) Al Petras, another on strategic communication led by Organizational Behavior Lecturer Jennifer Mandolese, a third session on sharing cross-cultural impressions of BU and Boston led by HHHP Assistant Director Cyrus Konstantinakos, and a workshop on intercultural communication led by School of Education Professor Bruce Rindler.
We also enjoyed two excursions into Boston—a guided tour of the Freedom Trail and a sojourn through Boston’s North End, where Bank of America Senior Vice President (and BU alumnus) Al Petras introduced the Fellows to Boston’s most famous pizza and pastry shops.
Our final week before the semester begins concluded with a visit by 2002-2003 BU HHHP Alumnus Sujeev Shakya, who shared reflections from his year at BU and critically useful advice for this year’s Fellows.
