Well we've come to that point in the summer where its time for the temporary IvyGate editors (Max and Michael, not that it matters) to say goodbye. It hasn't been a great season for the Ivy League though. Cornell lost everyone's social security numbers. Harvard is broke and is trying to own English. A Brown student and a Yale student competed to see who could be more annoying. Californians don't understand us. Don't even mention lacrosse. And we seem to be forgetting something. What could it be? Oh well, it probably wasn't important.

But the worst news of all came just this week. Forbes Magazine, the nation's premier experts on all things list-related, released their ranking of America's Best Colleges. Here are the sobering results:

1. Army

2. Princeton

3. Caltech

4. Williams

5. Harvard

6. Wellesley

7. Air Force

8. Amherst

9. Yale

10. Stanford

11. MIT

12. Swarthmore

13. Columbia

14. Centre

15. Haverford

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Umm, it'll be a while until we reach the next Ivy League school, so we'll warp ahead after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

Since it stopped raining in Cambridge for a couple of days, I thought I'd take the liberty open up the traditional non-official yet highly selective application for IvyGate's 2009 summer editors. Past summer editors (Maureen) have coasted on the position to the inevitable flame and gory media careers----that's not a typo, but it is awkward to read.

At this juncture, there's a quite a bit of hullabaloo about how journalism is dying and Meghan McCain's boobs are taking over the media. But not at IvyGate! We'll never go anywhere, and it will like be some Penn sophomore's boobs are taking over Dartmouth fraternities. (Yes, we have secret posts maturing in our cellars. You can have a sip when you apply.)

Now that I've used boobs to coax, it's worth noting that we also pay in beer and self-congratulation. If you think we're being too dude-bro, we'll give you stiff martinis and gift cards to Forever 21. In a gender neutral way, we offer you the opportunity to scoop out the Ivy League's dirtiest crevices for morsels of irony and flakes of hilarity. You'll make some people cry. You'll get berated in the comments section. And you'll love every minute of it. If that's not enough, you should be an i-banker. (Good luck.)

I'll announce our annual May-to-June hiatus later this week when I'm ready to say goodbye.

Meantime, if you're interested in applying or just want to hear about my day, hit me on my beeper: adam@ivygateblog.com

We're on hiatus. Do as you please on the comment board and look for summer editors starting June 16. If you'd like to be a summer editor - or maybe you are lonely without your daily IvyGate and would like to share A/S/L + sexi pic? - drop us a line before May 16.

Also, how rad is this baby portrait? Will some Whartonite please use it for a senior yearbook portrait? Please?

PS: Saw this one coming a mile away.