We are the final summer editors. Ivygate will soon return to the capable and freshly-scrubbed hands of Maureen and Jacob. But you have two more weeks left, and two more guest editors to survive. It’s like the end of a videogame. You’ve beaten all the other editors and now you’re up to the last bosses. Like that fat, angry turtle from Mario Bros., we too will pose a challenge to the serious gamer…er, reader.

Get to Know Us:

I’m James Yu, and I just graduated from Penn in May. For the past month or so I’ve been roaming about Korea, Taiwan, and Japan, eating savory things like kimchee and unadon and not-so-savory things like stinky tofu and thousand-year eggs. In two days I’ll be flying back to Oregon, and a month after that to New York. But in the meantime I’m relishing in the fact that in Seoul being an English major and an Ivy League graduate doesn’t mean that I’m destined for a life of abject poverty. So there you have it friends: the solution to America’s crumbling economy. If you can’t make anything of your $180,000 degree and need a gigantic boost of self-esteem come to Korea and make eighty bucks an hour assuring kids a degree from Princeton is all they need to succeed at life.

Hi, I’m Dan and I just graduated from Columbia. After four years of writing for comedy magazines, drinking, majoring in English and not going to career fairs, I can safely say it is better to plan ahead. While my friends are chilling in their own apartments, I am busy devising a way to get out of my childhood bedroom, or at least smuggle girls into it. When I’m not doing that, I’m working part-time at a public relations firm. In many ways it’s like I’m back in high school, only I’m working at a public relations firm and I can almost grow a beard. For the next two weeks, James and I will do our best to provide you, our precious audience, with a witty take on all the Ivy news out there.

What else? Oh yeah. Send us some tips, you plebeians! Send them to tips@ivygateblog.com.