the Sam Jackson College Experience

The following photo is a stack of a selection of the sources I am using for my final paper in Prof. Keith Darden's Nationalism + National Identity class (EP&E 412 / INTS 328 / PLSC 158 / PLSC 655 ). There is more where this came from, not to mention JSTOR articles and the like. [...]

No time to go into this in too great a depth, but just wanted to raise the point: for next year, Yale raised the student income contribution 15%, to $3000 for the year. This is a really big number when it comes to income that is meant to be earned while also being a full-time [...]

Bulldog days is underway, which means that approximately 1200 (!!!) freshmen and an unknown number of parents are here on campus. This is a scary invasion! I am studying in Trumbull Common Room and suddenly it was swarmed by about 40 people led in by a tour guide to drop some more Yale knowledge, yikes. [...]

I'm deeply tempted to do a facelift of this blog (again) because it is finals time (again) and I don't want to write my final papers at this moment (when does one ever?). My academics suffer, but readers' aesthetic pleasure (hopefully) would stand to benefit! I think the logic that I have come to in [...]

It is the spring of my junior year, which means it's time to start thinking about senior essays! Importantly, now is the time we decide if we want to write a year long senior essay or not - in political science, at least. Some other majors have mandatory year-long essays, and some have none at [...]