I was worried that getting this data would be difficult,
  but unironically, they literally have a single div for all
  of the text in the article and a single div for the header
  that contains the article name, author and date released.

  IT'S LIKE THEY WANTED ME TO SCRAPE THE SITE.

Why such a conclusion, and why is this "unironically"? A normal blog page, MIT or not, which is not obsessed with monetization or showing ads after each paragraph, is literally just a text with some very minor formatting (adding a few HTML tags here and there). It's very much expected that you would have a single <div class="content"> and an actual content inside of it.

Actual Title: MIT Webscraper

"...please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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