M.I.T. Lets Student Bloggers Post Without Censoring - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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M.I.T.’s bloggers, who are paid $10 an hour for up to four hours a week, offer thoughts on anything that might interest a prospective student.
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“High school students read the blogs, and they come in and say ‘I can’t believe Haverford students get to do such interesting things with their summers,’ ” he said. “There’s no better way for students to learn about a college than from other students.”
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“We saw very quickly that prospective students were engaging with each other and building their own community,”
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annual “Meet the Bloggers” session at Campus Preview Weekend.
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“The annual blogger selection is like the admissions office’s own running of the bulls,”
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Ms. Kim once wrote about how the resident advising system was making it impossible for her to move out of her housing — expressing enough irritation that the housing office requested that the admissions office take her post down. Officials refused, instead having the housing office post a rebuttal of her accusations; eventually, the system was changed.
