Finding a good student blog is harder than it sounds. Finding a good blog in general is very much a needle-in-a-haystack affair, of course–finding good student blogs can be especially tricky because the same queries and topics which bring up the best-written, most thoughtfully enunciated expositions also drag out the most inane and unhelpful of [...]

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Thinking about schools as possible tourist attractions seems to be in line with the marketing and school “branding” talk that I try to discourage. However, any Harvard student would counter that it’s just a fair description of their state of affairs: sit down in a lawn chair with a notepad and a sharp eye for [...]

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There were a fair number of Yale Daily News stories last semester about various incidents of news-worthy intolerance; this sad trend seems to have continued this term with the “We Love Yale Sluts” debacle where, for those unfamiliar, a group of Zeta Psi fraternity pledges posted photos on Facebook of themselves holding a sign with [...]

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Teachers, educators, and librarians sometimes ponder the possible uses of Facebook as an education tool; students and teachers alike talk about the awkwardness and occasional utility that arises from online social networking interactions between-groups. The Education Committee of Missouri has weighed in with a proposal which paints its picture using a giant “sex offenders are [...]

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Hey everyone! Sorry that I have been away so long. I had a lot of fun in Russia and Yale’s second semester has been going great, it’s just been really, really, really busy and as important as all my readers and this blog are to me, I don’t want to flunk out of school! Then [...]

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