MIT Student Life
 
 "The Campaign for Students will help ensure the continuing excellence of MIT’s living and learning experience." - President Susan Hockfield
 
An MIT education is about more than what’s taught in the classroom; it’s also about learning by doing. MIT’s student life programs provide these crucial learning experiences, and help prepare the Institute’s students for service to society. To the Institute, these programs are imperative. Today’s world calls for a new kind of leader-one who can motivate, inspire, and marshal teams of people to address problems of global scale. An education that provides opportunities for students to both learn and practice their skills in a variety of contexts offers the best hope for addressing the world’s most intractable problems. And, it provides a foundation for the intense collaborative work these students will be doing tomorrow. MIT funds a host of campus programs and activities that encourage students to pilot their own leadership strategies and define for themselves the roles they want to play in life. Whether it’s through creating a system to speed the regeneration of coral reefs, breaking a pole vaulting record, or leading an international group of students in the design of a more efficient vehicle, the experience of learning by doing - translating personal experience into valuable knowledge - has become an essential element of learning at MIT. For specific giving opportunity information, please visit the DAPER Giving, Student Life or the Campaign for Students websites.