the Sam Jackson College Experience

all the exciting parts, none of the heavy debt burden

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 [...]

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 [...]

Our good friends at IvyGate, through what I assume must be great cleverness and sneakery, posted the top 25 overall and top 25 Liberal Arts colleges in the U.S. News’ 2008 rankings earlier today. At first had ethical reservations about saying really anything on the topic since I felt I could be indirectly promoting the [...]

I don’t think sales and marketing go hand in hand with teaching, and I question whether they are the best match for honesty in college admissions.
That’s why I’m a little annoyed when I read through old posts like this one, delving into the past some: TargetX mentioned in an Email Minute back in January that [...]

Mashable had a great post today, “DOWNLOAD EVERYTHING: 30+ Firefox Add-ons For Downloading Images, Videos & Files” many of which are very useful–check it out if you’re a Firefox user (and if you’re not, check it out so you can see why you ought to be). But nestled within those embedded video downloaders and screen [...]

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