the Sam Jackson College Experience

Getting into college is just like winning the cold war. You're excited, everyone congratulates you and you feel like you've done something really great. You feel good about yourself. The only problem is that afterwards you don't know what to do with yourself. It's not the free time that poses an issue, though for some [...]

I decided that in the spirit of reflecting back on the past year (wait, wasn't that Yom Kippur?) I would dig through my "Most Popular Posts" (as determined by visitor patterns!) and the ARCHIVES and make some personal picks for entries that are as much fun now as they were the day they were written. [...]

I sent my reply card back to New Haven almost as soon as I got it; there was no question that I would be going to Yale next year. It wasn't that way when I sent in my application November 1st, though. So what changed? I would not have applied early if it had been [...]

Disclaimer: I just set up my Amazon affiliates account. Remember, I have to cover my self-help portion of Financial Aid somehow... Well, at least one who hasn't already been admitted into their dream college! These make excellent christmas gifts, if the recepient is a high school student and the gifter is a sadist. Still, I'm [...]

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, is coming to my school to give an assembly on January 26th. This is because he was an alum, '02. Phillips Exeter Academy is running some year-long assembly series for the 75th anniversary of the Harkness method at Exeter--the discussion-based teaching around a table that was made possible through the [...]