Opportunity Knocks: Intern with danah boyd and the Berkman Center Internet Safety Task Force

31 Mar

Posted by Sam Jackson as Internets, Teenagers, Work

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is spearheading an internet security task force, working with companies like MySpace, Google, Microsoft, and fifty attorney generals to help identify effective online safety tools and technologies. danah boyd, social media researcher and general awesome person extraordinaire, is soliciting people for a research intern position working with her […]

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Maintaining MY online identity (a teaser post) - random domain name purchases

28 Feb

Posted by Sam Jackson as Esoterotica, Internets, Irrelevance, Teenagers, personal

I was recently having a little debate with Diana over at the Digital Natives blog about how best to manage online identities as a teenager, inspired by Lifehacker’s recent post about managing digital reputations. My main point of agreement was about ‘becoming the source’ for information about yourself, and how important it is to maintain […]

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Class of 2007 Senior SAT Score and Percentile Breakdown Report, Part 1: SAT I Reasoning

24 Feb

Posted by Sam Jackson as Admissions, College, College Board, Financial Aid, Teenagers, Testing, stress

One of the most popular posts ever written for this blog was the one in which I wrote about the finer details within the 2006 Senior SAT College Board data. In a way, I am very much a beneficiary of the same standardized-testing and college admissions stresses which I rail against. However, that doesn’t mean […]

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Facebook as an education tool? Teachers friending students? Could soon be against the law in Missouri.

04 Feb

Posted by Sam Jackson as Internets, Student Life, Teenagers

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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A SamJackson.org scholarship? Plus: college blogging revenue talk

01 Feb

Posted by Sam Jackson as Admissions, Advertisements, Blogging, Internets, Teenagers, marketing, odd & fun, personal

One thing I have always wanted to do is make good use of my split audience. There are students and admissions officers / higher ed professionals–why not have them both work together for mutual benefit? What would really be great would be if the latter group pitched in to co-sponsor a scholarship, which would […]

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Who is Sam Jackson?

I'm currently a freshman at Yale University and I've been blogging about college admissions and higher education marketing trends since I began my college application process in 2005. I now also write about my experience here at Yale, and am an official Yale blogger. Click here to read my 'about' page.

Kind words about my blog:

Andrew Careaga calls it “a service to all of us in the higher ed marketing business.”

Christian Long says it has “dramatically inspired college admissions folks to take notice”

Bob Johnson says “I like [it] because I agree with so much of what he says.” and that “Paying attention what Sam writes will let you focus more closely on students who will actually attend your school.”

Karine Joly says my witty and fresh style “offers a rare glimpse at the mind of our elusive prospective students”

and TargetX calls my blog “good reading” and me “wise-beyond-my-years.”