the Sam Jackson College Experience

I've explained before that my current education plan is to do something very interdisciplinary blending science with public policy. I then point to the desperate need for this sort of "pro-earth, reason & science" presence in Washington. Well, Chris Mooney over at The Intersection (on ScienceBlogs--Chris is the Washington correspondent for Seed and senior correspondent [...]

Remember how before Thanksgiving break I said I had to do all my essays and applications for every school on my list? I had two essays written then: one common application essay and one generic 'supplement open response' essay. Fourteen schools left for which I had not yet prepared applications. Where do I stand now? [...]

For very sad reasons, I don't get to do very much art here at Exeter (my first and only course will be next term, Painting 204) but that doesn't mean I'm not an artistic person! Even my creativity is more generally expressed through words, I'm not completely hopeless when it comes to graphic arts. I [...]

Sorry, dear audience, for my absence of late. I'm currently trying to get as much relaxation out of my thanksgiving break as possible, which means sleeping and reading books. And not blogging since I don't have all that much at hand to write about. I was looking forward to this vacation quite a bit a [...]

I found an explanation for why Jian Li might have expected to be admitted to Princeton and all those other schools which waitlisted him: perhaps he went and used Michelle Hernandez's Academic Index Calculator? Michelle Hernandez is "America's premiere college consultant," according to her website. Hernandez invites us to calculate our own academic indices using [...]