IvyGate Returns!

Life is getting tougher and tougher for this year's crop of anxiety-ridden Ivy League applicants—now even the blog they frequent to both alleviate and exacerbate their stress is letting them down.

That's right, Ivygateblog.com—founded in 2006 and known for satirizing the good, the bad, and the ugly in the Ivy League—just made its first post in 19 days, an unusually long gap for a site that used to update frequently throughout each day.

Update: And....now they're back with a post on...us? Sort of. Apparently a staffer sent out an angry e-mail to the Business leadership at The Crimson that includes, among other things, a FUCK YOU acrostic. Yep. Seriously.

Even more disconcerting to the Ivygate-obsessed, a Nov. 18 post was neither a snarky analysis of a professorial affair nor a dig at preppy Yale students, but rather a plea for more blog writers.

"Experience is arbitrary," wrote Editor Adam Clark Estes. "But we will demand that you understand teh internet, possess a cutting sense of humor, and write with a proto-David Foster Wallace voice. Seriously, otherwise, just email us if you're up for cranking out content. IvyGate pays in beer and glory. And trust me, it flows freely."

[Note: The misspelled "teh" is not a typo on FlyBy's part.]

Three of the most recent Ivygate posts feature Harvard (one relishes a rather unflattering portrayal of Harvard in a fake advertisement,another mocks an incident involving poisoned coffee at the Harvard Medical School, and the third makes it clear that an act of arson by a Harvard grad is very much out of character with an Ivy League education). Clearly, Harvard alums and events are crucial to the blog's content. But how big a deal is the Ivygate dry spell for Harvard students?

"When Ivygate first started, I felt like it was very much a site that people would log on to just to procrastinate, but it occasionally broke news," said Lena Chen '10, writer of the blog Sex and the Ivy. "Nowadays there is no shortage of sites that do exactly what Ivy does."

"Also, there are so many college endowment problems right now, maybe it's not really a time tha's right for juicy, gossipy material," she added.

If blog withdrawal starts to get you down, FlyBy is here to keep you abreast of anything truly important. We're not going anywhere.