17 Apr
Posted by Sam Jackson as Yale
UPDATE: Was performance art in and of itself.
New Haven, Conn. — April 17, 2008
Ms. Shvarts is engaged in performance art. Her art project includes visual representations, a press release and other narrative materials. She stated to three senior Yale University officials today, including two deans, that she did not impregnate herself and [...]
16 Apr
Posted by Sam Jackson as Esoterotica, Harvard, Internets, Ivy League, Yale, odd & fun
About a month ago, I wrote about patterns I found comparing Yale and Harvard in Google searches through Google Trends. Well, just today, Facebook released a simply fascinating tool called “Lexicon” which is the same thing, but for wall posts. Computers (not humans!) track the content of every wallpost for words and phrases, and [...]
I decided it might be instructive to take a moment to talk about the courses that I am taking. Soon, I will write another post explaining how these courses affect my free time / life / happiness in more detail, but for now I thought it would be good just to describe what I have [...]
06 Apr
Posted by Sam Jackson as Student Life, Yale
Last Saturday, I had a wonderful day in New York with some students from my residential college, our dean, master, and some Trumbull fellows. We went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which in addition to its always wonderful permanent collection had a nice Gustave Courbet exhibition. The real star of the art-afternoon was the [...]
04 Apr
Posted by Sam Jackson as Blogging, College, Student Life
Finding a good student blog is harder than it sounds. Finding a good blog in general is very much a needle-in-a-haystack affair, of course–finding good student blogs can be especially tricky because the same queries and topics which bring up the best-written, most thoughtfully enunciated expositions also drag out the most inane and unhelpful of [...]