Undergraduate Blog/职业发展

How to leave home without leaving who you are

我梦见在波士顿,曼哈顿,或者旧金山拥挤的街道度过这个夏天。我不得不感慨这个夏天回到我科罗拉多州Fort Collins的家乡实习生。柯林斯堡是一个大学城与企图心带165000个居民的地方,美丽的公园,山景,和从紧的社区。然而,柯林斯堡具有节能,喧嚣和城市,大多数20岁的崇拜者企业家趋之若鹜的疯狂的一小部分。我不由得感觉好像回家是从我的忙碌生活波士顿一种退步。

Before coming home, my vision for this summer consisted of insane amounts of work, living between skyscrapers, having lots of coffee meetings, and rubbing shoulders with billionaires, VC’s, and entrepreneurial celebs. Instead, my summer has been spent sitting in a quiet office and rubbing shoulders with raft guides and fisherman instead of CEOs. Most of my summer weekends have been spent on tall mountain peaks or deep below canyon walls—places where you are alone, disconnected, and hundreds of miles away from the noise. And I would not have wanted it any other way.

The end of summer represents a moment of transition for many. Maybe you are moving away from home for the first time to start college at Babson or perhaps you are preparing to return for another year. Don’t get too absorbed in the excitement and ambition of the city. The city is a place filled with equal parts action and distraction. In the city, you can easily fall headlong over the cliff “Distracted from distraction by distraction.” Remember your home and embrace your past. Babson is an incredibly powerful community of individuals—many of whom have left their homes thousands of miles behind them to be here. Babson is a home to everyone but a first home to none. You do not have to be an imposter to start a new life in a new city or a new country. Embrace your past and identity and make it a meaningful part of your new life in Boston. Keep sacred the rituals, traditions, and habits that are part of life at home and do not sacrifice them for your “new life.”

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