Administrators said the essays weren’t particularly helpful in making admissions decisions. But it’s too soon to know whether ...

AI text detector accuracy is worse than most institutions realize. New research from Pindrop and the Authors Guild confirms that skilled human writers are systematically flagged as AI-generated — and ...

Vancouver School Board rolled out Microsoft Copilot AI chatbot accounts for every student aged 13+. Why make such a bold step ...

Sally Kornbluth is the president of MIT. Most successful scientists are optimists. They have to be, since the vast majority of experiments fail. In graduate school, I remember sitting in the lab at ...

The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words I have been teaching fiction writing at MIT since ...

While many in the media and beyond tried to explain the deadly violence at Brown University and MIT through external social factors like radical politics or unrestricted immigration, it is more likely ...

I’m still not sure whose idea it was for me to be Casper’s therapist—mine or his. I know I mentioned my profession to him, but I am pretty sure he was the one who engaged me that way. I also know how ...

One of the highlights of my first three years as a literature professor at MIT—and indeed, of my 15-year career as an educator—has been the recent discovery that some of my students, past and present, ...