the Sam Jackson College Experience

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, is coming to my school to give an assembly on January 26th. This is because he was an alum, '02. Phillips Exeter Academy is running some year-long assembly series for the 75th anniversary of the Harkness method at Exeter--the discussion-based teaching around a table that was made possible through the [...]

This was on the front page of the Exonian today, reported by my super-excellent best buddy and fellow senior Boaz Chandrasekhar: 64% of Exonians applied early to schools this fall. This is up from 58% last year. There are 315 people in the class of 2006, 30 of whom are postgraduates. Boaz wrote "early decision" [...]

I have spent far too much of my time in the last 24 hours looking for school mailing addresses to label Teacher Recommendation letters. I am in fact only giving one teacher a complete set of stuffed envelopes, since of of my two teacher rec-writers is in the Nicaraguan jungle right now and has hers [...]

Remember how before Thanksgiving break I said I had to do all my essays and applications for every school on my list? I had two essays written then: one common application essay and one generic 'supplement open response' essay. Fourteen schools left for which I had not yet prepared applications. Where do I stand now? [...]

For very sad reasons, I don't get to do very much art here at Exeter (my first and only course will be next term, Painting 204) but that doesn't mean I'm not an artistic person! Even my creativity is more generally expressed through words, I'm not completely hopeless when it comes to graphic arts. I [...]