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 as well as a compelling voice and perspective.
Bloggers are generally expected to post an average of twice a month (spending up to a few hours on each post), and attend a group meeting/check-in with all bloggers every two weeks. We may also ask you to help advise small 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 alumni. Please note that only current MIT students (including incoming freshmen!) 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 07/01/2026 and close on 08/01/2026. Anyone who has started their application by 08/01/2026 will have a grace period of 7 days to complete and submit it. We will begin reviewing complete applications after the application has closed, and we hope to select and alert bloggers before orientation if possible.
We ask that all writing in this application be your own, just like we ask of our current student bloggers. Please do not use generative AI/large language models to write or edit any part of your blogger application. Readers of the blogs want to hear your authentic human voice and your unique perspective! If you have any questions about the AI usage policy for bloggers, please feel welcome to email [email protected].
