This is no sweepstakes–everyone’s a winner. When we were away last week in Provincetown we had the mail held, obviously, so I received 7 days of mail all at once this afternoon. This is a perfect afternoon to profile… all the college-related mail I got in that week! Exciting!
Without further ado, and in no particular [...]

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I’m back now from the lovely week I spent in Provincetown. My sister brought her digital camera but only a 32 MB card; I’ll post photos to my photo gallery sometime later this week. What did I do for that week of beautiful weather?
I wrote essays. At least, parts of essays. My logic was [...]

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You saw the headline. Room & Board up 5 percent, Forbes Magazine says ‘Buy real estate’. What? That’s right.
“Investing in your child’s education as well as your real estate portfolio can really pay off.” Anyone else find this article a little bit perverse?
For students, the mention of college conjures images of sprawling quads, crowded libraries [...]

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Usual promotional fare of school-sponsored admissions blogs, one might expect. We’ll have to look forward to what Cornell students can put out in terms of blog content… The school seems particularly well-intentioned with these blogs. Here are the mission objectives:
The student voice is largely missing from Cornell’s web site and, in this project, we have [...]

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Karine Joly of College Web Editor interviewed me about the site last week; I would say I had some interesting responses! She asked three questions, and I took about 2000 words to answer. Lot’s of fun! Here were the questions:
1) Why did you decide to blog about this in the first place? Why did you [...]

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