Interested in auditioning for Wesleying, Wesleyan’s “sassiest and most WordPress-savvy online singing group”? Scroll on, dear one. Our blog could be your life.
Hey Readers,
Wesleying is looking for new staff members! We are an entirely student-run, student-funded, student-supported campus life blog. We’ve been kickin’, in some form, since our founding in 2006 by fairy godmothers Holly ’08 and Xue ’08 and have been growing every year since then. We’re looking for bloggers, journalists, writers, photographers, interviewers, social media types, homespun Wes historians, videographers, internet addicts, photoshop fiends, and web design wizards—whatever. Frosh especially welcome.
If you love Wesleying and want to help make it the weird, irreverent, and colorful media space it has become—or if you just like blogging in your underwear—please stop by. In the immortal words of The Great Sheek, “All you need is Internet access, the ability to string sentences together coherently, and an interest in life at Wesleyan as it is, was, and might be.”
Why you should join Wesleying:
- You write stuff and thousands (literally) of people read it.
- The opportunity to interview powerful people.
- Occasional offers of fancy press passes for cool conferences.
- You can shed light on campus issues that are close to home (or not).
- Know everything that’s happening on campus before anybody else.
- Access to the drama-filled amusement ride that is the Wesleying listserv.
- Wesleying alums have gone on to awesome publications (like Wired and Newsweek) and continue to shred it. If you’re interested in journalism at all, this is where it’s at.
Here’s some more information from previous recruitment drives:
As a Wesleying blogger you can be part of Wesleyan’s most frequently read media source, with the potential to shape campus discourse and the ability to keep Wespeople informed and entertained… and procrastinating. Wesleying is as good as whatever its contributors put into it, so let us know what you’ve got.
Do you know or have a lot to say about Weslife? Do you or people you know do cool stuff on/around campus? Do you want to break news as it happens? Do you take sweet campus photos? Do you like to Photoshop things? Are you into Wes music, and can you describe it in words? Are you a human filter for Internet media? Do you know your memes? Are you a news junkie with an eye for things relevant to us at Wes? Do you possess keen wit and/or discerning taste? Do you write good? Does weird/messed up shit happen to you or your friends sometimes; wanna talk about it?
Are you into digging up forgotten pieces of Wes history? Do you know secret things? Do you explore little-known, little-seen parts of campus? Is campus deconstruction second nature after you took Intro Sociology? Do you have more opinions than your friends can bear to listen to? Do u miss wen we used 2 speak LOLspeak? Do you miss yesteryear’s Wesleyan weirdness; wanna bring it back/keep it going? Do you think things just aren’t the same as they used to be? Do you want to keep up the kind of content we’ve been posting over the years? Do you have a perspective you think we’re missing, or have been neglecting lately? Are you just REALLY EXCITED TO BE HERE??
Do you like to take pictures of half-naked Wes students . . . and paste Michael Roth’s face on top?
Do you like to procrastinate . . . by helping other students procrastinate?
Do you carry a camera with you at all times . . . without entirely knowing why?
Do you dig through ancient Argus archives . . . so you can make fun of people who totally graduated, like, twelve years ago (but somehow still manage to comment on the post)?
Do you think the atmosphere is a way less exciting place than . . . the blogosphere?
Do you think blogging about blogging is, like . . . totally meta and shit?
Do you think that mocking the nauseating Wesleyan Admissions site is still funny five years later?
Date: Sunday, September 21
Time: 1 p.m.
Place: 41 Wyllys, Room 112
Why: Our Blog Could Be Your Life
FURTHER READINGS:
WESTROSPECTIVE: Wesleying’s Founding, Five Years Later (Aug 23, 2011)
WESLEYING: A Retrospective/Recruitment (Feb 4, 2010)
“WesCeleb: Ashik Siddique ’10“ (Dec 8,2009)
“Wesleying blog gaints popularity” (Dec 1, 2006)
“Student blogs flourish” (Feb 2, 2007)
“WesCeleb: Xue Sun ’08” (Oct 20, 2006)
“WesCeleb: Holly Wood ’08“ (Nov 30, 2007)
“As founding members exit, Wesleying looks to the future” (May 6, 2008)