June 23, 2010
Posted by Sam Jackson
Just a quick summer update. I'm in San Francisco this summer, working in Mountain View at Google. Aside from fog and free food, I am looking forward to making new connections, so if you're reading this and want to grab a cup of tea, do write / call me and we'll try to sort things [...]
May 18, 2010
Posted by Sam Jackson
My name is Sam Jackson, and I am currently a rising senior political science major at Yale University (Class of 2011). In the fall of 2009, I was a participant of the Yale-PKU Joint Program, based in Beijing. There I had the opportunity to live and study with Chinese students. I found the unique ways [...]
July 14, 2009
Posted by Sam Jackson
Hey everyone, as is readily apparent, I haven't made very many updates this summer. I've been having a pretty good time in San Francisco with Google, and will try to share some photos of non-confidential fun. In the meanwhile, in the interests of testing out my employer's neat products, here is a Google Voice call [...]
April 16, 2008
Posted by Sam Jackson
About a month ago, I wrote about patterns I found comparing Yale and Harvard in Google searches through Google Trends. Well, just today, Facebook released a simply fascinating tool called "Lexicon" which is the same thing, but for wall posts. Computers (not humans!) track the content of every wallpost for words and phrases, and you [...]
February 29, 2008
Posted by Sam Jackson
Why not discover something new--why not hear some unfamiliar music this weekend? The South by Southwest music festival in Austin always releases lots of MP3s of artists each year, but this year did not put them together in a torrent all in one place. Luckily, Greg Hewgill did. Click here for the link to his [...]
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.