the Sam Jackson College Experience

My dedicated readers will no doubt already be aware, but for those who missed a beat: I am currently writing a biweekly column for the Yale Herald about reflections from my return from studying in China last semester. The last column was about cats and other cute animals, and the dearth thereof here at Yale. [...]

I decided to try to write a column for the Yale Herald this spring semester about my time in China, since it didn't end up working out that I would write one while there. It's been a strange experience readjusting to Yale, and I've come to appreciate many things about it that I once took [...]

Photo from Flickr user Dexell1827 It's Thanksgiving time of year, and I'm not sure that exactly that will mean here in Beijing. This is the first time that I have been away from home for Thanksgiving (!) and I certainly am missing all the proper accoutrements of Thanksgiving. What matters most about Thanksgiving to me, [...]

The issue of pollution in China is a very great one, and not a matter than can easily be summed up in one blog post, no matter how exhaustive. However, after several rain and then snowstorms over the weekend, the air quality today is so nice, and the scenery so beautiful as a result, that I just had to stop delaying and start writing a little bit about it.

I just wanted to share this little slideshow from the New York Times about Heshun, which has been rated in the past the "most charmful village in China." It's definitely very charmful, though the NYT slideshow does not do it justice. Still, it's fun to see the Times validate the charm of someplace that we [...]