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.