Chris and Nick will be "available" today at noon on the WashPo's website to discuss their scintillating op/ed in Sunday's edition of that paper, which we definitely did not skim. Hurry and submit awkward/uncomfortable questions for them to answer. Make them work for it.

UPDATED: The session is now concluded. Here was my favorite exchange:

Sanaa, Yemen: Hi guys. Love the blog!

I was considering applying to some of America's Ivy League universities (once my visa comes through, Insha'Allah!), but your column is causing me to reconsider. Basically, I'm looking for strong academics, and the opportunities for some new experiences.

My question: Among America's best academies, where is your column least true?

Nick Summers: Hi, thanks! Good luck with your visa. I would apply to Wellesley and major in anything other than studio arts.

After the jump -- Insha'Allah! -- the full transcript. 

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Let's cut to the chase. After the jump: IvyGate editors emeriti Nick Summers' and Chris Beam's feature, "College Sex: Going Home Alone," from today's Washington Post. It's mostly about Hot Pockets.

No new pictures of Casper at the moment. Sorry to the lady and gay men commenters.

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Prime your Google Readers:

For this Sunday's Washington Post, IvyGate founders/editors emeriti/slavedrivers Nick Summers and Chris Beam have penned an op-ed both wistful and erotic. As the screen grab shows, we've got a title confirmed, "Going Home Alone," but the tracklist has yet to leak. It will appear in the Post's Outlook section -- the poor man's Week In Review -- awkwardly near George Will's weekly socio-political history lesson. Then they'll discuss the article in a washingtonpost.com session Monday at noon ET. All this is to say that by Monday around 1 p.m., we'll know Nick and Chris' sexual histories very well.

Check into IvyGate Sunday for the official op-ed reception. This means we'll sloppily post the op-ed, and Nick and Chris probably won't answer your questions. Instead they'll sit back and watch as commenters somehow start debating whether Barnard is part of Columbia within half an hour. "Well tut tut and fiddle-dee-fum," they'll muse, a bittersweet raspiness cloaking their aged voices. "How we do miss the commenters at IvyGate."

And if that's not enough, we'll try to post more hot pictures of Casper (by popular demand) with Nick and Chris' op-ed. Nothing has ever been as important as this upcoming blockbuster post. Eh, maybe this.