the Sam Jackson College Experience

Yes, it's true. It feels like just yesterday that I was admitted... but it's been four years. Four years, 40+ course credits, and a hundred pages of my senior essay later, I'm on the threshold of "real life," passing out of the embrace of Bright College Years. I will - write more about the Yale [...]

I wrote a week ago about the farce that is Yale's collaboration with the Singaporean government to set up a liberal-arts style school there. A commenter on the YDN website shared some comparison mission statements which underscores the way in which Yale has completely abandoned its duty to try to support academic freedom and human [...]

In case you did not know, Yale just agreed to help organize (and lend its name to) a new liberal arts university being set up in Singapore by the national government. It's great that Yale is able to help Singapore pursue the liberal arts in a first-of-its-kind institution. It's wrong and naive to think that [...]

Feb Club is a Yale Tradition. Like all Yale TraditionsTM, it is now steeped in myth and lore... but the basic outline has remained the same. In the month of February, different members of the senior class host parties. Every night. For the month of February. Simple enough, right? You can buy access to the [...]

I will keep this short and focus on the content here, folks, because it's amazing. A few years back I wrote an angry letter to Yale Dean of Admissions Jeff Brenzel for not being forward-looking enough with the admissions office. I will soon have to draft him a letter of congratulations for his support of [...]