23 Sep
Posted by Sam Jackson as College, Esoterotica, Student Life, Teenagers, Testing, Yale, personal
What would college be without participation in random psych experiments?
I won’t be able to personally answer that question because I’m going to have to be a guinea pig in some experiments in order to meet the pretty easy lab requirement for my intro psych course, taught by the excellent Marvin Chun. Signing up for [...]
15 Sep
Posted by Sam Jackson as Campus, College, Esoterotica, Ivy League, Student Life, Teenagers, Yale, odd & fun
Some of you may be familiar with the concept of naked parties popular at college campuses across the nation but perhaps especially Yale; in any event, I thought I would attach a relevant email sent to the freshman class about something its anonymous author purports to be the first Pundit-sponsored prankish naked party of the [...]
18 Aug
Posted by Sam Jackson as Esoterotica, Teenagers, Travel
Here’s me at the Kyle Sampson hearings that I went to while I was in Washington D.C. interning–front page of theBoston Globe, March 30, 2007! I never got around to scanning it until I was just cleaning my room today.
Wait, what do you mean you don’t see me? Oh… well, you see, we had these [...]
12 Feb
Posted by Sam Jackson as Esoterotica, Yale, odd & fun
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 [...]
12 Feb
Posted by Sam Jackson as College, Esoterotica, personal
I updated my ‘About’ page to be more accurate and less numbingly extensive. Including here in post-form because, well, I know by my crazy-intense statistics gathering that not that many people have actually gone to the ‘About‘ page despite its very prominent placement.
Why I have this blog: I started this blog describing it as [...]