First I got the NetID, then I went into Webmail (interestingly called Horde, I discovered–apt given the number of new Yalies about the log in) and, having set a password, I sent first a test email, then a blanket ‘hello world look at me’ to friends and family from the new @yale.edu address. What’s [...]

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Alexa Harrington over at EducatedNation refers us to a SF Examiner story about a San Francisco psych class which decided to have a competition with their rejection letters, ranking them for superlatives like “Least original rejection” and “Least number of words you need to read before you know you are being rejected.”
The story concludes by [...]

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I just got back late last night from a trip back home and to Exeter, which was quite good but didn’t last nearly long enough. I do miss all my friends at home and at school who are not with me here in D.C. But, back on topic:
A few weeks ago Yale had us send [...]

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I’ve been playing a game of Diplomacy by e-mail with a group of Yale 2011 admits, and it’s been pretty fun–thanks to Matt Kremer for organizing it! We were drafted and organized initially through the Facebook 2011 group, which as I’ve said before, has been quite the valuable tool. Now, whether such games are the [...]

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MIT has an early action telethon, where current students call every one of the early action admits and congratulate them! It’s during IAP so everyone at MIT has lots of free time, conceivably. This kind of thing is easy to set up and makes admits feel really special and loved as a new part of [...]

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