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March 12: Lecture on Cuban Music with Maraca, Visit with Cuban Conservatory Students, Concert #1

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Mar 132 min read

March 12: Lecture on Cuban Music with Maraca, Visit with Cuban Conservatory Students, Concert #1

Today was a day full of music! We arrived early for breakfast to load the buses with our instruments for all the day’s activities, which...

March 11: Callejón de Hamel y Rumba, Walking Tour of Old Havana, Sitting in with the Band!

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Mar 132 min read

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 122 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 121 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 111 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...

Jack Heuer ’24: Lab of Medical Imaging and Computation at Massachusetts General Hospital

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Oct 12, 20234 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...

October 9, 2023: Morehouse College Tour, World of Coca-Cola

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Oct 11, 20231 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...

October 8: Atlanta, GA—Ebenezer Baptist Church, Civil Rights Exhibit, Southern Food

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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....

October 7: Birmingham Civil Rights Museum, Statue of Brother Bryan

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Oct 10, 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...

October 6: Montgomery—National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Legacy Museum

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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 2, 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.

Ryan Ferguson ’24: Pediatric Associates of Brockton and Dr. Chung

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Sep 20, 20234 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...

Julia Ahearn ’24 and Noah Springhorn ’24: Antagen Pharmaceuticals

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Sep 8, 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, 20233 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, 20234 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 1, 20233 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...

Luke Zermani ’24 and Aidan Zheng ’24: Nuance Communications

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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, 20235 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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Aug 25, 20234 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 23, 20233 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...