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March 11: Callejón de Hamel y Rumba, Walking Tour of Old Havana, Sitting in with the Band!
Our first full day in Cuba. After eating breakfast at the hotel, we boarded our tour buses to head to Callejón de Hamel, or Hamel Alley,...
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Mar 13, 20242 min read

March 11: Day One
We began our first full day with a visit to the Largo Argentina, the site of Julius Caesar's assassination on the Ides of March in 44...
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Mar 12, 20242 min read


March 10: Travel from Boston
We have arrived in Havana! We are excited to embark on this musically and culturally enriching journey with the Noble and Greenough...
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Mar 12, 20241 min read

March 10: Arrival Day
It took some doing, but we finally made it! The first flight arrived in Rome around 6 p.m. followed a few hours later by the second crew...
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Mar 11, 20241 min read


Jack Heuer ’24: Lab of Medical Imaging and Computation at Massachusetts General Hospital
In the past few years, I have used computer science to solve problems such as creating a game of checkers or sorting a list, but I’ve...
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Oct 12, 20234 min read


October 9, 2023: Morehouse College Tour, World of Coca-Cola
Today we started the day a little later than usual. We met downstairs in the lobby at 10:30 a.m. before getting on the bus to go to...
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Oct 11, 20231 min read

October 8: Atlanta, GA—Ebenezer Baptist Church, Civil Rights Exhibit, Southern Food
A riveting church service, Haunting civil rights exhibits, delicious southern food. Day 3 of the Civil Rights trip was a total success....
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Oct 11, 20231 min read


October 7: Birmingham Civil Rights Museum, Statue of Brother Bryan
Today, at The Birmingham Civil Rights Museum, it was surreal to see actual Civil Rights Movement artifacts such as segregated water...
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Oct 10, 20231 min read

October 6: Montgomery—National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Legacy Museum
This was the first day of our trip to the sites of the historic Civil Rights Movement. We arrived safely in Atlanta and began our journey...
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Oct 10, 20231 min read

Civil Rights Trip Coming Soon
Watch this space for updates from the Civil Rights Trip that takes place October 6-9, 2023.
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Oct 2, 20231 min read

Ryan Ferguson ’24: Pediatric Associates of Brockton and Dr. Chung
If there is one thing that I learned from this internship, it is to love your job! Dr. Chung embodied that adage in and out of the...
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Sep 20, 20234 min read

Julia Ahearn ’24 and Noah Springhorn ’24: Antagen Pharmaceuticals
Vaccination is crucial to modern medicine and saves millions of lives yearly. With the Covid-19 pandemic, we all saw just how necessary...
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Sep 8, 20234 min read


Alex Perlman ’24: Brooks Automation
My favorite thing to do growing up was build giant sculptures out of scrap Legos. As I got older I slowly began building more intricate...
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Sep 8, 20233 min read


Jack Willard ’24: Boston Medical Center
You may not often stop to think about how important your hands are in carrying out even the most mundane daily tasks. That is, until...
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Sep 8, 20234 min read


Charlie Kantaros ’24: Bullhorn
This summer I was fortunate enough to be granted the opportunity to be a software engineer at Bullhorn. Bullhorn works to improve the...
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Sep 1, 20233 min read

Luke Zermani ’24 and Aidan Zheng ’24: Nuance Communications
For seven weeks this summer, we, Luke Zermani and Aidan Zheng, were given the chance to work for Nuance Communications. Nuance uses...
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Sep 1, 20233 min read


Ella Kaufman ’24: Noxon Orthodontics
When I was younger, I was told I would never need braces, and that my teeth were perfectly straight. However, seeing how perfectly...
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Sep 1, 20235 min read

Tyler Karp ’24: Klett Consulting Group
I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to have been able to intern for Klett Consulting Group (KCG), a company based in Virginia...
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Aug 25, 20234 min read


Mason Klein ’24: Boston Ability Center
For me, this was a summer of firsts. It was my first time learning about pediatric therapies, first time working with children in a...
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Aug 23, 20233 min read


Shelby Whitaker ’24: The Burns Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Growing up, I have been a frequent flier at Children's Hospital for my many sports-related injuries. I have always been fascinated with...
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Aug 18, 20234 min read
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