the Sam Jackson College Experience

Why not discover something new--why not hear some unfamiliar music this weekend? The South by Southwest music festival in Austin always releases lots of MP3s of artists each year, but this year did not put them together in a torrent all in one place. Luckily, Greg Hewgill did. Click here for the link to his [...]

I was recently having a little debate with Diana over at the Digital Natives blog about how best to manage online identities as a teenager, inspired by Lifehacker's recent post about managing digital reputations. My main point of agreement was about 'becoming the source' for information about yourself, and how important it is to maintain [...]

Hello everyone! This is my first time hosting a blog carnival, but it is the 160th Carnival of Education! I got a lot of submissions for this week and chose the best ones to share with you today. Welcome to the February 27, 2008 edition of the carnival of education, let's get started! When you're [...]

There were a fair number of Yale Daily News stories last semester about various incidents of news-worthy intolerance; this sad trend seems to have continued this term with the "We Love Yale Sluts" debacle where, for those unfamiliar, a group of Zeta Psi fraternity pledges posted photos on Facebook of themselves holding a sign with [...]

One of the most popular posts ever written for this blog was the one in which I wrote about the finer details within the 2006 Senior SAT College Board data. In a way, I am very much a beneficiary of the same standardized-testing and college admissions stresses which I rail against. However, that doesn't mean [...]