April 19, 2010
Posted by Sam Jackson
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. [...]
April 17, 2010
Posted by Sam Jackson
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 [...]
April 7, 2010
Posted by Sam Jackson
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 [...]
March 31, 2010
Posted by Sam Jackson
Cameron Dabaghi, BK '11, a good friend who was part of the Yale-PKU program with me, died yesterday evening in New York City. I am making a post about this because I've seen too many reports from trashy tabloid like newspapers that just wanted to get pageviews or attention from flashy notice of this, since [...]
March 16, 2010
Posted by Sam Jackson
The extremely heavy rainfall here in Boston over the weekend took me away from all my research / work as I tried to help mitigate the effects of 10+ inches of rainfall in the Boston area on our house / basement... we managed to jury rig together a pump and then get some going, but [...]
I'm currently a rising senior 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. Click here to read my extended 'about' page.I'm currently a junior 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. I just got back from studying abroad at Peking University this past Fall 2009 in Beijing, China! Click here to read my 'about' page.