I've been asked to explain why this site is so popular, and have subsequently spent much too much time visiting other school sites. Some are truly functional and fantastic, but the point is that most websites (due to anticipated shelf life) fall victim to the same trap: like annual reports and brochures, their mission is to profess near perfection. It looks something like this:

When--like most of us--you're getting publications from all the schools you attended, the message gets pretty boring, and the only interest is "how did they try to communicate near perfection this time?".

School sites and brochures may want you to believe that students are squeezing every wakeful moment out of the week for study and arts appreciation, but I went to boarding school myself, and the truth is that weekends on campus can be boring. Communicating in the present, it's OK to tell the truth: It's cold and raining steadily. All Saturday games were cancelled, and the off campus activities don't sound that exciting. What are students really doing? Here is the front porch of MLS:

It's OK to experience boredom. From my experience (as a current parent of college students) boredom qualifies as a part of college experience. We refer to dorm livingrooms as "common rooms". In Gannett, on a wet Sunday, we're watching Tom Cruise listen to Cuba Gooding shout, "Show me the money!"

Having overslept brunch (which is a tendency for a great majority--after all, it's at ten, and we lost an hour of sleep) a steady trickle of students utilize the new sidewalk down to Pizza Chef.