With a Team of Helping Hands, Babson’s Class of 2028 Moves In
Move-in day is a feat of emotional strength. Students experience a mix of nerves and bursting excitement. Parents beam with pride but try to not think about goodbyes. Campus bustles with cheers and car beeps, heard from Forest Hall all the way to Woodland Hills.
It’s also a feat of physical strength.
Each year, hundreds of Babson staff members and students, including peer mentors and resident advisors, assist the newest class of students as they move in. They push stacked moving bins up campus roads, carry mini fridges to rooms, and play Tetris with said bins in the hallways.
It’s a day of hard work that culminates in the best reward: over 600 new Babson Beavers—this time, the Class of 2028—are finally home.
“Our first resident today was someone I gave a room tour to when they came for Launch Babson,” says Lily Sherman ‘26, who helped move students into Park Manor Central. “She said that tour was one of the reasons she committed to Babson.” Alongside Sherman is Alakananda Krishnan ‘26, who met the student moving into Krishnan’s former first-year room. Krishnan starts to smile widely as the full circle moment clicks for her.
Both upperclassmen are proud to be a part of such an emotional day. They also had a front-row seat to everyone’s dorm hauls. Students bring the typical essentials, but sometimes the cart has a few surprises. Not even halfway through her move-in shift, Krishnan already has an answer for the funniest item she has seen: a gumball machine.
That gumball machine belongs to David Han ‘28. Han and his dad drove up to campus with it from New Jersey. Han was gifted the machine his senior year of high school after he sold the vending machine company he started as a junior. His room isn’t even unpacked, but he already has a Babson-esque venture on his resume. “It symbolizes the end of an era, but I’m starting a new one,” Han says.
Down the hall, two high school friends are starting a new era together as college roommates. Sofia Pérez ‘28 and Mia Pabón ‘28 and their families flew from Puerto Rico, and their parents in the hallway discussed how courses like Foundations of Management & Entrepreneurship (FME) made their college decision easy. Their room right now mostly contains luggage, and while they brought summer attire to Babson, they are rethinking it after the day’s fall-like weather. “I didn’t expect it to be so cold in August,” Pabón says.
While it’s a little early for the New England storybook weather to start, a new Babson leaf is turning. Soon the air will stay crisp, and the new students will be deep into FME. Move-in will be a distant memory, until volunteer shifts next year bring back a swing of new memories.
For now, they have boxes to unpack.
Photos: Nic Czarnecki
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