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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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| Location | Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| Undergraduates | 4,172 |
| Graduate Students | 6,048 |
| Faculty | 1,008 |
| Alumni | 120,000 |
| Library Volumes | 2.8 million |
| Homepage | www.mit.edu |
Contents |
Course Pages
Organizations and Clubs
Guides
Moving to Cambridge/Boston and MIT
30 Cool Things That Happen at MIT and Few Other Places (if any)
Collaborate
Campus
Theater
Museums
Religious Life
Lost & Found
Town
MIT is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
News
- Boston Herald - Botson main paper
- The Tech - MIT campus student paper
Parking
Haircuts, Barbers and Salons
Transportation
Supermarkets and Food Shops
Laundry and Dry Cleaning
Food and Drink
Takeout menus
Restaurants That Deliver
Vegetarian
Residential Houses & Housing
Houses
Dorm Rooms
Best for Parties
Best Views
Biggest
Smallest
Best for Quiet Study
Content Produced by MIT People
Books
Blogs
- MIT Admissions Blog - current studets blog about life at MIT
- Techpreneur- MIT graduate Sam Chow's technology entrepreneurship blog
- Yoav Shapira - MIT graduate Yoav Shapira's blog
- MIT Sloan School- Blog of MIT's Sloan School, includes student blogs
- Convergence Culture Consortium - comparitive media studies blog
Podcasts
- MIT Sloan Schoolstudent podcasts
Music
Art
Film/Video
Academic Papers
Tips and Advice for
Frosh
Seniors
Graduate and Professional Students
Jr. Faculty
Staff
Alumni
Best Of
Best Study Spots
Best First Date Places
Best Out of the Way Date Places
Best Student Jobs
Best Sleeping/Napping on Campus
Best CAs
Best Bathrooms
Best Places to Park
Worst Of
Bathrooms
Alumni
MIT Alumni Association - an online community for MIT alumni
History
The Institute admitted its first students in 1865, four years after the approval of its founding charter. The opening marked the culmination of an extended effort by William Barton Rogers, a distinguished natural scientist, to establish a new kind of independent educational institution relevant to an increasingly industrialized America. Rogers stressed the pragmatic and practicable. He believed that professional competence is best fostered by coupling teaching and research and by focusing attention on real-world problems. Toward this end, he pioneered the development of the teaching laboratory.
Today MIT is a world-class educational institution. Teaching and research—with relevance to the practical world as a guiding principle—continue to be its primary purpose. MIT is independent, coeducational, and privately endowed. Its five schools and one college encompass numerous academic departments, divisions, and degree-granting programs, as well as interdisciplinary centers, laboratories, and programs whose work cuts across traditional departmental boundaries.
