Watch how Yale deals with a giant crisis! (Aliza Shvarts ‘08 & abortion art) [UPDATE: Fake, performance art!]

17 Apr

Posted by Sam Jackson as Yale

UPDATE: Was performance art in and of itself.
New Haven, Conn. — April 17, 2008
Ms. Shvarts is engaged in performance art. Her art project includes visual representations, a press release and other narrative materials. She stated to three senior Yale University officials today, including two deans, that she did not impregnate herself and [...]

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Harvard vs. Yale vs. Princeton: Facebook Fight

16 Apr

Posted by Sam Jackson as Esoterotica, Harvard, Internets, Ivy League, Yale, odd & fun

About a month ago, I wrote about patterns I found comparing Yale and Harvard in Google searches through Google Trends. Well, just today, Facebook released a simply fascinating tool called “Lexicon” which is the same thing, but for wall posts. Computers (not humans!) track the content of every wallpost for words and phrases, and [...]

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The Sad and Secret Problem of Yale’s Amazing Resources

06 Apr

Posted by Sam Jackson as Student Life, Yale

Last Saturday, I had a wonderful day in New York with some students from my residential college, our dean, master, and some Trumbull fellows. We went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which in addition to its always wonderful permanent collection had a nice Gustave Courbet exhibition. The real star of the art-afternoon was the [...]

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Congratulations Yale Class of 2012!

31 Mar

Posted by Sam Jackson as Admissions, College, Yale, stress

This is just a quick post to congratulate all those who were just accepted regular decision to Yale for the class of 2012. This is a great achievement! Some of you will come to Bulldog Days, some (like me) won’t, and some of you will decide to go somewhere else altogether.
It’s also just a note [...]

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Hello to Yale 2012 from Sam Jackson, Yale 2011

28 Mar

Posted by Sam Jackson as Admissions, Blogging, Yale, marketing

Regular Decision notice for the Yale Class of 2012 comes out this Monday, March 31st. This post is addressed to both the regular decision and early action members of Yale 2012, and is posted on the admitted students website as well as my own blog.
This is my first for the Yale admitted students web site, [...]

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Who is Sam Jackson?

I'm currently a sophomore 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.

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