Be a Blogger 2025! by Ceri R. '16

It’s July again, which means that:

1. I started a co-op Stardew Valley save file with my partner and am trying to squeeze in some night gardening when I can to stay cool during extreme heat waves
2. I’m fleeing to the mountains for a much-needed vacation, where I will sit in backyards & photosynthesize & float on a river & not think about emails for a couple weeks
3. it’s time for anyone who wants to blog to let us gently poke through your writing, as if we were a beekeeper examining a hive in an unusual location

Here’s what it means to us to be⁠01 bee? an admissions blogger:

MIT students are the Institute’s best ambassadors and community-builders. Admissions Officers (AOs) can explain complicated processes and provide words of wisdom, but we can’t write about what it’s like to experience Interphase EDGE/x, or live on Conner 2, or host an adMIT for Sin LíMITe, or UROP, or become a mentor for Project Manus, or learn a cool new thing in class, and so forth.

The mission of the blogs is to help our students communicate what MIT is actually like. We do this by hiring students who have good judgment, a compelling voice and perspective, and the disciplined exuberance to post at least twice a month on average. We may ask you to help advise creative projects in the office and serve as a touchstone for student culture. We pay you for this work. It’s a pretty good gig, to be honest.

This application was designed mostly by student bloggers to help ask and answer the kinds of questions that might be useful for identifying their kin. Your submissions will be read by a small committee made up of AOs, senior bloggers, and a few blogger cruft.

Please note that *only* current MIT students may apply to be bloggers (i.e. no prospective students or students at other colleges). This application is open to all MIT undergraduates of any class year.

This application will go live on 07/01/2025 and close on 08/01/2025. Anyone who has started their application by 08/01/2025 will have a grace period of 7 days to complete and submit it. We will begin reviewing complete applications in August, and we hope to select and alert bloggers before orientation if possible.

If this sounds like something you might like to do, then head over to SlideRoom and fill out the blogger application to help us better understand what kind of admissions blogger you would be.

If anything isn’t clear, let me know in the comments or by email, and Petey or I will be happy to help!