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 [...]
04 Apr
Posted by Sam Jackson as Blogging, College, Student Life
Finding a good student blog is harder than it sounds. Finding a good blog in general is very much a needle-in-a-haystack affair, of course–finding good student blogs can be especially tricky because the same queries and topics which bring up the best-written, most thoughtfully enunciated expositions also drag out the most inane and unhelpful of [...]
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is spearheading an internet security task force, working with companies like MySpace, Google, Microsoft, and fifty attorney generals to help identify effective online safety tools and technologies. danah boyd, social media researcher and general awesome person extraordinaire, is soliciting people for a research intern position working with her [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]