Keeping Busy at school: Read my Yale Herald column!

21 Oct

Posted by Sam Jackson as Campus, College, Ivy League, Student Life, Teenagers, Yale, odd & fun, personal

Sorry to have been out of the loop, it’s just midterm season here. I have been doing some other writing, though (and feel a little like I’m cheating on my blog-readers as a result) and thought I would share it to tide you over for a little bit.
My column in the Yale Herald is about […]

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Lynn Jawitz: My Favorite Florist in NYC!

10 Oct

Posted by Sam Jackson as Friends

New York is the second biggest source of visitors to the site (by city or state) and I thought I would share this nice article that was in the New York Post about a very good family friend, Lynn Jawitz, who also happens to be a very good florist!

Lynn Jawitz lives in a striking home […]

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Do Looks Matter? Thoughts on the Admissions Office Aesthetic.

05 Oct

Posted by Sam Jackson as Admissions, College, Teenagers, Visits, marketing

Norman Kraft of Zen Writes Inc. keeps a higher education marketing blog called “Zen and the Art of Higher Education Marketing” which I read regularly (or at least as regularly as he posts–happily, the last couple of weeks have been pretty consistent) and generally find to be very on the mark. Two weeks ago he […]

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Psych Studies at Yale! Participating in Experiments for Lab Credits

23 Sep

Posted by Sam Jackson as College, Esoterotica, Student Life, Teenagers, Testing, Yale, personal

What would college be without participation in random psych experiments?
I won’t be able to personally answer that question because I’m going to have to be a guinea pig in some experiments in order to meet the pretty easy lab requirement for my intro psych course, taught by the excellent Marvin Chun. Signing up for […]

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Yale: where famous people like David Pogue visit and share stories, tea

18 Sep

Posted by Sam Jackson as Internets, Ivy League, Student Life, Yale

This afternoon I had the pleasure of going to a cozy Yale Daily News workshop with David Pogue ‘85 where we all gathered around a table in the boardroom and learned about Pogue’s unusual path to becoming the technology columnist for the New York Times (from musical comedy to tech journalist!) and then had a […]

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Who is Sam Jackson?

I'm currently a freshman at Yale University and I've been blogging about college admissions and higher education marketing trends since I began my college application process in 2005. I now also write about my experience here at Yale, and am an official Yale blogger. Click here to read my 'about' page.

Kind words about my blog:

Andrew Careaga calls it “a service to all of us in the higher ed marketing business.”

Christian Long says it has “dramatically inspired college admissions folks to take notice”

Bob Johnson says “I like [it] because I agree with so much of what he says.” and that “Paying attention what Sam writes will let you focus more closely on students who will actually attend your school.”

Karine Joly says my witty and fresh style “offers a rare glimpse at the mind of our elusive prospective students”

and TargetX calls my blog “good reading” and me “wise-beyond-my-years.”