April 17, 2010
Posted by Sam Jackson
I'm deeply tempted to do a facelift of this blog (again) because it is finals time (again) and I don't want to write my final papers at this moment (when does one ever?). My academics suffer, but readers' aesthetic pleasure (hopefully) would stand to benefit! I think the logic that I have come to in [...]
July 14, 2009
Posted by Sam Jackson
So, given that I am rarely updating this site, it's all the more frustrating that I have to keep doing this reactive work to cover up for the problems that come when it keeps getting hacked. I'm not sure where the vulnerabilities are coming from, honestly; I'm not prepared to say it's a hosting problem, [...]
September 18, 2007
Posted by Sam Jackson
This afternoon I had the pleasure of going to a cozy Yale Daily News workshop with David Pogue '85 where we all gathered around a table in the boardroom and learned about Pogue's unusual path to becoming the technology columnist for the New York Times (from musical comedy to tech journalist!) and then had a [...]
September 14, 2007
Posted by Sam Jackson
It's still pretty boring--check if you don't believe me! My edits mainly consisted of changing 'Exeter' to 'Yale.' I also changed the tagline from 'all the exciting parts, none of the rejection' to 'all the exciting parts, none of the heavy debt burden.' It would be funnier were it not for all that debt! These [...]
September 11, 2007
Posted by Sam Jackson
First, I got a callback for one of the improv groups that I tried out for last night, The Purple Crayon! The Purple Crayon is the only group on campus that does long-form improv, which is where they take one suggestion and then create a whole show out of it. I think it's absolutely fantastic [...]
I'm currently a rising senior 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. Click here to read my extended 'about' page.I'm currently a junior 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. I just got back from studying abroad at Peking University this past Fall 2009 in Beijing, China! Click here to read my 'about' page.