To the Summit of Mt. Resume, and Beyond
Hello, it's your negligent overlords checking in again. We just want to remind everyone of a post that went up last week, in case you missed it: We're hiring for the summer.
The valiant Maureen O'Connor and Jacob Savage (also Hal Parker!) -- of whom we are much enamored, to whom we are much indebted -- have been helming the HMS IvyGate since September, and their final post of the semester goes up May 2. Then the site goes dark till June 16, when we return with a new summer slate of guest editors.
We want you to apply. 'Cause it's summer, we're desperate excited to take a look at all comers. Maybe you're a newspaper geek who wants to enlarge her patrol to all eight campuses; maybe you're an anthro major with well-penned takes on the tribes and customs of these parts; maybe you're an inveterate gossip who wants to crown a real-life Blair and Serena.
Maybe you know better. But let's face it, you attend an Ivy, which means you've bit hook, line and sinker on a bad sales pitch before. Make that mistake again! Be an IvyGate editor! The pay is nonexistent, the commenters pustulent. And yet writing this stuff is fun -- witness our inability to take the blog out behind the lean-to and shoot it in the back of the head -- and there can be rewards. Why, just look at our recent alumni. We promise either a wildly lucrative promotion to the blogging bigs, or a nervy b.
To apply, email ivygate@gmail.com by May 16.
Cheers,
Nick and Chris
P.S. Disproving the existence of karma, we have been blessed recently with the talents of Zach Ozer, one of those ridiculously impressive tech guys from MIT. He's overseeing a big upgrade of the blog that will yield a prettier (shut up) and faster site. Leave your ideas and requests in the comments, where they will be rounded up and shot.
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comments for zach says:
FIX THE COMMENTS! It's a huge pain the ass to comment on this thing. Try it. It sucks. It should be much faster, much easier.
May 2, 2008 11:06 AM
ditto comments says:
I CONCUR. Commenting needs to be intuitive enough that we Ivy Leaguers, who are (apparently) notoriously lacking in common sense, won't post two, three, or even four times just because their comment doesn't show up immediately.
May 2, 2008 11:41 AM
ditto comments says:
Damn, pronouns don't match up. Oops. At least it only posted once.
May 2, 2008 11:43 AM
johnleemk says:
Yeah, the server is clearly too crappy to properly inform us our comments have been posted. Might consider fixing the server, or your software.
May 2, 2008 4:32 PM
sasha says:
Thanks for seeing that the site gets [another] facelift, guys. Let's hope it's CENTERED, has (some?) color, and will look nicer than MIT's website....
May 3, 2008 1:11 AM
y10 says:
I have a somewhat less trivial request, but I don't think it'll be too hard to implement.
Threaded comments, so I can respond to someone directly without going "@ditto comments". See digg for an example of this.
May 3, 2008 11:13 AM
@y10 says:
I would actually NOT want threaded comments. It encourages flame wars and discourages commenters from "moving on" from earlier comments. I like to see which comments have been added since a prior visit. This is not so easy with threaded comments.
Otherwise: faster comments and the ability to run polls would be nice. e.g. Aliza Shvarts should (a) show her art, (b) eat her art, (c) not graduate, or (d) stand in a bread line like other artistes.
May 3, 2008 11:39 AM
C10 says:
WHERE IS THE SEX COLUMN REPORT CARD????? Jenna B FTW!
May 4, 2008 1:26 PM
jim newell says:
hey, I also did some shit here SUMMERS. and no, no threaded comments. anything but threaded comments. they cause prostate cancer.
May 5, 2008 1:17 AM
D09 says:
How about, in the future, keeping the site updated during the 2nd half of Dartmouth's spring term (and 1st half of winter term)? We're an Ivy League school, stuff is going on here, and we'll still be in classes/exams for another month.
May 5, 2008 8:50 AM
AIDS says:
How are you calling pustulent, you cum gargling elitist swine?
May 5, 2008 5:35 PM