the Sam Jackson College Experience

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is spearheading an internet security task force, working with companies like MySpace, Google, Microsoft, and fifty attorney generals to help identify effective online safety tools and technologies. danah boyd, social media researcher and general awesome person extraordinaire, is soliciting people for a research intern position working with her [...]

This is just a quick post to congratulate all those who were just accepted regular decision to Yale for the class of 2012. This is a great achievement! Some of you will come to Bulldog Days, some (like me) won't, and some of you will decide to go somewhere else altogether. It's also just a [...]

Regular Decision notice for the Yale Class of 2012 comes out this Monday, March 31st. This post is addressed to both the regular decision and early action members of Yale 2012, and is posted on the admitted students website as well as my own blog. This is my first for the Yale admitted students web [...]

Thinking about schools as possible tourist attractions seems to be in line with the marketing and school "branding" talk that I try to discourage. However, any Harvard student would counter that it's just a fair description of their state of affairs: sit down in a lawn chair with a notepad and a sharp eye for [...]

I discovered an interesting pattern while playing around with Google Trends: if you compare 'Yale University' and 'Harvard University' with the tool, there is an eerie similarity in their trend lines. Even minor up and down ticks are mirrored across search terms. See for yourself: trends chart below, Harvard in red, Yale in blue. The [...]