In the high-stakes world of college admissions, there’s one lesson every hopeful applicant should learn early: sometimes, what you leave out of your essay matters more than what you put in. As Sophie ...

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Writing a college admissions essay is hard. But using AI could backfire badly. Credit: Ian Moore / Mashable Composite; Tero Vesalainen / iStock / Getty Every fall, high school students applying to ...

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This video is no longer available. A well-written essay and $200 could win you a nearly 6,000-square-foot house in historic downtown Fredericksburg, Virginia. Paula and Robert Welsh said they love ...

I still remember the first time I took my class outside for a descriptive writing lesson. It was a crisp fall morning, and I handed each student a pine cone, asking them to describe it as if the ...

I used to believe I taught the one genre that artificial intelligence couldn’t touch. For 15 years, I’ve guided college students through the deeply human work of personal narrative, helping them ...

A team of neurologists and AI specialists at MIT's Media Lab has led a study looking into the brain impacts of large language model (LLM) use among people who engage with them for study or work. They ...

President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. New hiring guidelines from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management reveal ...