24 Mar
Posted by Sam Jackson as Campus, College, Ivy League, Student Life, Travel, Visits, Yale
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 […]
Hope Santa treated everyone well this year, and that new year’s goes swimmingly too: I am off to New York for new year’s Sunday and then January 1st I will be jumping on an Aeroflot flight to Moscow and will be gone for about two weeks in RUSSIA! Which I am very excited about. If […]
23 Aug
Posted by Sam Jackson as Student Life, Teenagers, Travel, Yale, personal
Just a head’s up: I’m busy packing, spending last moments with friends, generally panicking about getting ready for school. I am leaving on Monday for FOOT, freshman outdoor orientation trips, where I’ll be heading to the berkshires for 4 days of backpacking with classmates and a couple non-freshman leaders. On the 31st I will return […]
18 Aug
Posted by Sam Jackson as Esoterotica, Teenagers, Travel
Here’s me at the Kyle Sampson hearings that I went to while I was in Washington D.C. interning–front page of theBoston Globe, March 30, 2007! I never got around to scanning it until I was just cleaning my room today.
Wait, what do you mean you don’t see me? Oh… well, you see, we had these […]
Here is just a quick picture of our Backroads group, minus trip leaders. This is in the Virgin River Narrows of Zion National Park, which was a lot of fun since I absolutely love hopping on rocks and scampering around in the water. I’m in blue next to my mom on the right. I have […]