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 […]

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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 trend […]

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Yale doesn’t have publicly available admissions OR student blogs, but it does have student-written “Bulldog Blogs” accessible to admitted students. Last year, when I was an admitted student, I discovered that these were actually just ripped from the particular students’ personal blogs and reposted on the admitted students website. I thought about publishing all […]

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As a Yale student, it’s a nice reaffirmation of the resources available when I load the New York Times webpage and find a nice photo of the squash courts in an article about schools with massive endowments. Only in late January, when that happened, it wasn’t Yale at all–it was my high school, Phillips Exeter […]

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At the start of February I announced my desire to organize a scholarship through my site. A little more than a month later, things are really going strong. Here’s where things now stand–still working things out:
The Idea: A contest to propose the best new ideas for using new media, the internet, and technology to improve […]

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