New Beginnings: Sophomore Year at Yale begins

03 Sep

Posted by Sam Jackson as Student Life, Yale, personal

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 schedule quite soon. I’m currently in the midst of shopping period, frantically trying to take as many classes at once to pare down my list from 200 possible courses to about 4.5-5.5 credits worth of coursework. I’ll keep you all posted!

As usual, I am very very very happy to answer any and all questions, so please send them my way - comment here if you have something you’d like me to specifically write about. Thanks!

3 Responses

alexa harrington

September 4th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
1

Welcome back! Your summer sounds interesting, although not so much with the relaxing. I look forward to hearing about the internship stuff and the new year at Yale.

–Alexa
David Kane

September 15th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
2

Give us details on your classes, professors and class sizes. More data for our discussion from last spring.
John

September 15th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
3

And if you’re interested in news from other colleges, check out http://www.miscellanynews.com/

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I'm currently a sophomore 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.

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