Hey everyone! I hope you're all having a great summer vacation, especially since school starts again in just 22 days!

In preparation for the new school year, I've created a new MAD Livejournal Community! This Blogger blog will still be the club's main news bulletin since all posts will be automatically sent to members on our mailing list, but the LJ community will be here to serve as a place for quick Q&A and discussion about club events between club members and club officers. I created the LJ community was because I've noticed a lot of members have been e-mailing us with the similar questions. While we are always more than happy to answer your questions, I've realized that a lot of members probably have the same questions, so it would be helpful to have the questions and answers posted in one place for quick reference.

So if you already have a LJ, please join the community so you can receive full posting privileges. If you don't have a LJ, you can sign up for an account for free! Or if you'd rather not sign up for your own account, you can still get full posting privileges by logging in using our club's username and account: lowellmad The password is lhsmad! (Yes, with the exclamation mark at the end!)

Once you log in with our club account, you will have full posting privileges in the community because I've already joined our community with that username.

Just be sure to put your name and reg (or some other contact info) somewhere in your post when you're posting anything with the club account so we know who you are!

Important news posts will be reposted in the LJ community, but rest assured that all news will still appear on this blog (and in your e-mail inboxes!) first.

If you have any questions about how to do things on LJ, please e-mail me and I'll try my best to answer your questions. I'll try to get a mini-guide up sometime soon to help those who are unfamiliar with Livejournal.

If you want to become an officer next year, please download this application. There is currently no set due date, but the sooner you get it done, the better!