21 Oct
Posted by Sam Jackson as Campus, College, Ivy League, Student Life, Teenagers, Yale, odd & fun, personal
Sorry to have been out of the loop, it’s just midterm season here. I have been doing some other writing, though (and feel a little like I’m cheating on my blog-readers as a result) and thought I would share it to tide you over for a little bit.
My column in the Yale Herald is about [...]
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 [...]
18 Sep
Posted by Sam Jackson as Internets, Ivy League, Student Life, Yale
This afternoon I had the pleasure of going to a cozy Yale Daily News workshop with David Pogue ‘85 where we all gathered around a table in the boardroom and learned about Pogue’s unusual path to becoming the technology columnist for the New York Times (from musical comedy to tech journalist!) and then had a [...]
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 [...]
11 Sep
Posted by Sam Jackson as Campus, College, Internets, Ivy League, Student Life, Teenagers, Yale, personal
First, I got a callback for one of the improv groups that I tried out for last night, The Purple Crayon! The Purple Crayon is the only group on campus that does long-form improv, which is where they take one suggestion and then create a whole show out of it. I think it’s absolutely fantastic [...]