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One week done!

I'm excited to start my second week. The initial project I've been given is going well, it's perfectly suited to me, and everyone in the office is really nice. Our department works with some PwC consultants who finish up soon. I think I've found my lunch place, Boloco, and I've signed...

Posted to Undergraduates by Murdo Connochie on 17-Jun-2013
Filed under: Filed under: Boston, Liberty Mutual

Week 1: "Boston Strong," DOIs and Brown Sugar

Boston Strong It’s crazy to think I haven’t even been here a week! Walking around town, I already feel right at home, almost (dare I say it) like a local, commuting to work on the T every morning and making the same journey back at 5 everyday. Such is Boston: everyone is made to feel at home...

Posted to Undergraduates by Charlotte Daman Willems on 14-Jun-2013
Filed under: Filed under: Boston, Liberty Mutual, learning curve, University of St Andrews, product management, Product Compliance, Boston Strong

My First…

…not my first blog actually! This is my second one, but it is going to be about lots of firsts: some big, some small, but all memorable in their own way. A good place to start would be my first day in Boston. I’ll take Sunday as our first day, as we only arrived in the evening on Saturday...

Posted to Undergraduates by Jennifer Campbell on 14-Jun-2013
Filed under: Filed under: Boston, week 1, University of Glasgow, Liberty Mutual, Human Resources, 2013 Scholar

Five mistakes not to make

My first week has passed by in a whirlwind of marble corridors, gold elevators, suits, meetings, new faces, new names, cafeteria queues and exploring my new home. Boston is beautiful and buzzing. We spent Sunday exploring the city, walking everywhere and discovering the different areas. With the huge...

Posted to Undergraduates by Georgina Parker on 14-Jun-2013
Filed under: Filed under: Boston, Liberty Mutual, First Week, Internal Communications, First Day, 2013 Scholar, Nervous, Boston Strong, The Rolling Stones

Curious about George, Web Traffic and the Freedom Trail

It is always hard to reflect on your first week of starting something new. You are still excited, adapting to new surroundings, taking in a new environment, and to a great extent, how can you know what to expect? After staging a 24 hour day on Saturday to help overcome jetlag, my fellow Boston Interns...

Posted to Undergraduates by Carys Hughes on 14-Jun-2013
Filed under: Filed under: Boston, Marketing, University of Glasgow, National trust for Scotland Foundation USA

This Is Different

I can't remember the last time I woke up before 7AM. Part of it feels unnatural but the excitement of my first day at work made it easier. Our orientation in the main Liberty Mutual building was a nice welcome. Everything feels so grand. LM displays their creed on a huge plaque as you enter with...

Posted to Undergraduates by Murdo Connochie on 12-Jun-2013
Filed under: Filed under: Boston, Liberty Mutual.

Five hopes for the summer ahead

My Saltire Journey is only just beginning, but already it seems as if I’ve come so far and learnt so much. It has been a long eight months since I first attended a talk by Saltire alumni at my university, and decided that the opportunity was simply too good to miss. At the time of my application...

Posted to Undergraduates by Georgina Parker on 05-Jun-2013
Filed under: Filed under: Boston, Adventure, Liberty Mutual, Journey, leadership day, communications, ambitions, 2013 Scholar, Learning, Georgina Parker, Self-belief

Leadership Day, Lean[ing] In and Logan Airport

So it begins. I haven’t even left the country, and I already feel like my Saltire journey has well and truly begun. I wasn’t planning on writing another blog post until arriving in Boston, but I genuinely feel like there’s already so much learned this past week, that I couldn’t...

Posted to Undergraduates by Charlotte Daman Willems on 03-Jun-2013
Filed under: Filed under: Boston, Liberty Mutual, leadership day, sheryl sandberg, women, lean in

Less than two weeks to go...

Today I realised that in two weeks' time, I will be on my fourth day in Boston and second of working as a Talent Acquisitions Intern at Liberty Mutual Insurance! It is so exciting to think that by that point, so many of the questions I have about Boston and my internship will already have been answered...

Posted to Undergraduates by Jennifer Campbell on 28-May-2013
Filed under: Filed under: Boston, University of Glasgow, Liberty Mutual, 2013 Scholar

278 hours to go, and I'm "wikkid" excited.

I am a “lists” person. I make lists for everything, and there are always countless "things to do" lists scattered all over my room in many shapes, forms and sizes. Lists are so much a part of my life, that in my Liberty Mutual interview, my interviewer and I had a solid 2-minute...

Posted to Undergraduates by Charlotte Daman Willems on 27-May-2013
Filed under: Filed under: Boston, Liberty Mutual, University of St Andrews, st andrews, Charlotte, Product Compliance

History, lists and tea. The plan.

This time in 15 days, I shall be zooming across the Atlantic en route to Boston to begin my Digital Marketing internship with the National Trust for Scotland Foundation USA. I cant believe that roughly six months ago I was trawling through various Summer internships, getting increasingly disillusioned...

Posted to Undergraduates by Carys Hughes on 24-May-2013
Filed under: Filed under: Boston, National trust for Scotland Foundation USA, Glasgow, Carys

Busy on campus

Fall is in full swing… … and beside eating our weight in pumpkin pie, we’ve had a packed schedule of classes, project meetings and events . Some take aways from Babson and beyond for me include: Design thinking at IDEO – we had a session with the team at IDEO, the company who...

Posted to Fellow by Leanne Sherry on 25-Oct-2012
Filed under: Filed under: Boston, Babson, babson college

When it all starts to click together...

It's the end of week 5 and I'm starting to feel a little more organised, my computer is finally in order, calendar synched, course notes typed up and my handouts are all filed (alphabetically by professor of course). This might sound ridiculous to some, but this level of organisation soothes...

Posted to Fellow by Mike Brooke on 24-Sep-2012
Filed under: Filed under: Boston, Leadership, entrepreneur, Babson, saltire fellowship, babson college, Fellows, 2012 cohort, Saltire Foundation, startup weekend

Gorillas, Chimps and Monkeys

As we on the 2012 Saltire Fellowship commence the start of our third week here in Boston it is perhaps another good time to reflect upon my experience so far. Week 2 of Babson saw us receiving the last full week of classes before we start our blended 'part taught, part self-directed learning'...

Posted to Fellow by Charles Grant on 11-Sep-2012
Filed under: Filed under: Fellowship, Boston, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, Babson, Oil and Gas, inspiration, Fellows, 2012 cohort

10 hours and counting...

So I've just been reminded that there is less than 10 hours left of my internship and as I have a couple more things to fit in before I leave on Saturday morning I guess this will be my last post from Boston. It seems like the time has absolutely flown by but at the same time so much has happened...

Posted to Undergraduates by Alasdair Drennan on 02-Aug-2012
Filed under: Filed under: Boston, National trust for Scotland Foundation USA