24 Mar
Posted by Sam Jackson as Campus, College, Ivy League, Student Life, Travel, Visits, Yale
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 […]
05 Oct
Posted by Sam Jackson as Admissions, College, Teenagers, Visits, marketing
Norman Kraft of Zen Writes Inc. keeps a higher education marketing blog called “Zen and the Art of Higher Education Marketing” which I read regularly (or at least as regularly as he posts–happily, the last couple of weeks have been pretty consistent) and generally find to be very on the mark. Two weeks ago he […]
I forgot that I took some pictures with my phone (1.3 megapixels!) while I was at the open house. They came out decently–especially if I were to retouch them a little bit–but I didn’t end up taking very many because I didn’t have the energy to do so. These pictures capture most of the essence […]
10 Oct
Posted by Sam Jackson as College, Visits, odd & fun, personal
This is part 2 of my recap of Yale’s Multicultural Open House. You can find part 1 right here.
This is more a fun, quick note than anything else.
We were given meal tickets to go eat in residential colleges’ dining halls during the day, and I got a nice picture of dining at Yale. This was […]
08 Oct
Posted by Sam Jackson as College, Teenagers, Visits, odd & fun, personal
Saturday’s multicultural open house at Yale was… informative. I wish I could write paragraph after paragraph about how exciting it was, but it wasn’t particularly thrilling. I do not think this was entirely Yale’s fault–I felt like a zombie half the day, because getting up at 6 AM was not a good way to cap […]