你们好 (Hello all)! I know I have been seriously remiss in my posting, but am here to check in. Sophomore year has been very busy, moreso than I had expected. Although my usual calculus tells me that blogging comes before homework, having Chinese every day means that things have shifted to the back burner a little bit. I’m still at Yale, I haven’t dropped off the face of the earth, so I thought at the very least I should take a moment here on Thanksgiving break to update everyone on the kinds of things that have been keeping me away from the “write post” button.

I collected information about most of the events that I went to the week before vacation and am going to share them here, so take a peek at a few - normally things are booked more heavily, but these last few weeks (and unfortunately, the next few) are dense indeed with papers and studying for finals.

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The biggest thing to happen to the college search scene in years just went public, and it’s called Unigo. It is a tremendous new company which I think will really make big waves: it’s essentially an online, user-generated college guide book, though that description sells it short. This weekend’s New York Times Magazine does a good job telling readers all about Unigo, but I’d like to take a moment to share my story about this very exciting enterprise as well. Unigo is a must-visit site for:

1. anyone applying to college (how I wish I had such a resource!),
2. anyone at college (to tell the true story of your institution), and
3. anyone working at the college (to get an easily accessible angle on what students are thinking and saying).

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Greetings, readers! I’m sorry to have left everyone hanging over the summer. I was in Washington, D.C. working as a policy intern for Google, which was fascinating and a lot of fun. Now that school is back in session I have lots more to write about, once again, so will be resuming my more regular [...]

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Today I am very excited to announce that the college admissions scholarship I originally outlined and later updated is finally off the ground: myUsearch has stepped up to the plate and is offering $1000 to the best student essay answering the following questions: What has been the most frustrating part of your college admissions [...]

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Finished my last final this afternoon, so I’m home free. After 55 pages of papers, 6 hours of sitting for testing, I’m all done. Just packing this evening (…all evening…) and moving things into college storage tomorrow. I’ll be back in Newton Tuesday night. It’s been a very interesting year, lots of new experiences, and [...]

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