Living away from home and navigating your new independence will take some getting used to. But once you are here and settled in, you'll find the opportunities for learning and having fun are almost endless. Living on a campus that respects diversity; supports a strong student government, athletics program, and the arts; and encourages community pride will be an experience you will never replace or forget.
One of the best ways to learn how to get along is by living in a residence hall. Since all freshmen are required to live on campus, you'll get to know your classmates quickly. The 14 residence halls scattered throughout the campus include single, double, triple, and four-person rooms. Some areas are set aside for substance free-living and for multicultural group living. Residence halls may contain study lounges, kitchens, meeting rooms and "hatcheries" – work space for running or managing your Freshman Management Experience (FME) or other campus ventures.
Your residence hall is the center of your life at Babson, and since 83 percent of students live on campus, there's always someone interesting to talk to or something interesting to do. Special interest housing enhances the living-learning atmosphere in our residence halls. Examples include the Cultural House, i-Tower (investment), Music Tower, Women Giving Back, and e-Tower (entreprenuership).
And the food is great! Really. For pasta, pizza, soup and salad, cooked-to-order stir-fry, or something from the grill, Trim Dining Hall has food stations to accommodate just about every hunger, including an extensive vegan bar. Need an espresso hit, morning sweet treat or late night snack? Woody's Coffe Bar in the Reynolds Center opens at 7:30 a.m. and stays open till 11 p.m. For a cheeseburger, chef's salad, or an Italian sub, the Crossroads Café in the Reynolds Campus Center helps stave off the munchies from 11 a.m. till 11 p.m. An extensive Italian menu of calzones, strombolis, sandwiches, pizza and desert is also available in Pandinis, a restaurant in the Graduate School. And Roger's, the campus pub, serves non-alcoholic beverages and beer and wine to those 21 and over.
