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 [...]
05 Oct
Posted by Sam Jackson as Admissions, College, Teenagers, Visits, marketing
Norman Kraft of Zen Writes Inc. keeps a higher education marketing blog called “Zen and the Art of Higher Education Marketing” which I read regularly (or at least as regularly as he posts–happily, the last couple of weeks have been pretty consistent) and generally find to be very on the mark. Two weeks ago he [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]