Yale Multicultural Open House rundown: Part 1

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 [...]

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Yale Multicultural Open House

06 Oct

Posted by Sam Jackson as College, Visits, personal

I am going to Yale’s multicultural open house this weekend–it’s just Saturday, actually. I would like to go to more such things but it doesn’t look like any open houses besides this one have been able to mesh with the saturday class cycle at Exeter, which is a shame.
Info page here: Yale Multicultural Open House
Schedule [...]

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College Visits: Yale University

13 Aug

Posted by Sam Jackson as College, Visits, personal

Visit @ Yale University
July 17 2006
Oh Yale, arrayed before me with thine ivy-covered gothic (ivory?) towers of learning. What can I say? A lot, actually. I have photos too. Pictures link to my photogallery, where there are even more photos of this and other schools. Now, let’s begin. We’ll operate chronologically, minutiae [...]

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College Visits: MIT

14 Mar

Posted by Sam Jackson as College, Exeter, Visits

Today my friend Greta and I decided to venture out to M.I.T. for a visit. We’d intended to do such things this week, and couldn’t conceive of anything else for today, so it wasn’t a bad idea. Greta came over a bit before twelve and we pondered for 30 minutes what we might do while [...]

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Who is Sam Jackson?

I'm currently a sophomore 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, and am an official Yale blogger. Click here to read my 'about' page.

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