the Sam Jackson College Experience

Hope Santa treated everyone well this year, and that new year's goes swimmingly too: I am off to New York for new year's Sunday and then January 1st I will be jumping on an Aeroflot flight to Moscow and will be gone for about two weeks in RUSSIA! Which I am very excited about. If [...]

Should you worry about the collaboration between DNA test marketers and anxious students and parents eager to get their way into top schools? David over at EphBlog certainly thinks so (EphBlog is an unofficial Williams community blog which I mention here frequently as an excellent example of an unofficial school blog that adds lots of [...]

Today, December 21st, is Samuel L Jackson's birthday! I actually got to chat with him on his website today and wish him a happy birthday, stop by over the weekend to try to do the same! I only got in touch with him briefly, but I've always been a huge fan of The Man, not [...]

I know a lot of people have recently been coming to the site via CollegeConfidential or panicked "Yale 2012 how to survive after deferral" googling. It's amazing for me to remember where I was last year this time (Exeter, NH) what I was doing (finals) and how I was feeling (more stressed than any other [...]

So I have a big 15 page paper due next Friday, and unfortunately for me but fortunately for readers everywhere I spent a chunk of time procrastinating by redesigning this website. You could also say that it's something like a 2-year anniversary-of-blog birthday present. Feedback much appreciated! Some of the changes! Most impressively, the site [...]