Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT

MIT’s libraries are redefining the role of the 21st-century library, supporting the Institute’s programs of research and study in both innovative and traditional ways. Students, faculty, and researchers can tap into a vast array of library resources from classrooms, dorm rooms, or on-the-go through the Libraries’ mobile website. Library locations offer technology-enabled rooms for group collaboration and virtual meetings with peers across the globe, as well as quiet spaces for individual study. Students can learn about the Libraries’ resources and research tools in workshops, online tutorials, and in-person consultations.

Recreational Sports at MIT offers a variety of programs to students and members of the MIT community:

• Over 40 group exercise classes per week including yoga, pilates, strength training, cycling, core and more.
• Other fitness instructional programs including learning squash, running, capoeira, hip hop, belly dance and intense interval training
• Private training for swim, golf, ice skate, squash, personal training and triathlon
• Massage therapy for stress-management and injury prevention
• American Red Cross training for CPR, Lifeguards, Learn to Swim and First Aid
• Campus-wide special events including Zumba, Kickboxing, Dodgeball, 3 0n 3 basketball and onsite chair massage.

Undergraduates

Most undergraduates live on campus in one of MIT's 11 Institute houses or 39 MIT-affiliated fraternities, sororities, and living groups. All unmarried first-year students must live in one of the Institute's residence halls—except those who commute from home. Each dormitory has a live-in housemaster, who is usually a senior faculty member. Students may elect to remain on campus following their freshman year, or move to a fraternity, sorority, or independent living group. The current number of undergraduates living on campus is 3,370.

Graduate Students

More than 1,900 single graduate students live in MIT's five campus houses—Ashdown House, Edgerton House, Sidney-Pacific, Tang Hall, and the Warehous. Two campus apartment complexes, Westgate and Eastgate, accommodate over 400 graduate and undergraduate students with families. More than 90 graduate students live in undergraduate dorms as graduate resident tutors.