About Us

A few years back, a couple sophomores at Amherst College named Amit Gupta and Noah Winer built the first Daily Jolt (then called Amherst Central.) They and a few friends found that all of the Amherst-related web sites were created by the school’s administration or, even worse, were cheesy sites created by folks who hadn’t been to a campus in years and had no idea what students needed or wanted. So these little bastards figured they’d change all that.

Amit and crew built a site that was more useful to Amherst students – it had local info like weather, news, how to get a bus home for the weekend, stuff going on around campus, dining hall menus, and forums for people to talk to one another. Amherst students liked it, and so did everyone at Brown University, where their chum Mike Goelzer started the second Daily Jolt site. Soon enough, students from other colleges were clamoring to have one of their own.

And so it began...

We’re here for a simple reason: to make sure there’s a site out there that’s really made by students and for students. As students, recent grads and all around nice folk, we want a place where students can create and talk intelligently to each other. That’s why every Daily Jolt site is run by students at their respective school. The fact that we’re students means you can write in with your suggestions for making the site more useful and we'll listen.

For once, this is our site. Now scram, kid.