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How does your alcohol or drug use impact your academic, personal, and social life? What aspects of your current use may be high-risk and how can you reduce the harms associated with your use. Are you concerned about a friend’s substance use? We can help.
Online Screening
Alcohol Self-Assessment Tool
This confidential online tool will provide you with personalized feedback about your drinking patterns, specific health and personal consequences, unique personal and family risk factors, and campus and community support services. The program takes approximately 15 minutes to complete.
In-Person Screening
BASICS (Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students)
A 2-session program that walks you through conversations that illuminate your social habits and patterns, such as:
- your relationships with friends
- how your social behaviors compare with other MIT students
- what role your alcohol use plays within these contexts
This is a private, non-judgmental conversation that emphasizes your health and safety. You will not get in trouble for underage alcohol use or illegal drug use. You can decide what, if anything, you’d like to change, and we'll help you develop a plan to meet your goals.
Schedule an appointment: https://studentlife.mit.edu/aods-appointments
Self-Help
Alcohol and Narcotics Anonymous
- Meetings based on a 12-step model that promotes sobriety from alcohol and other drugs
- Meetings held both on campus and within surrounding community
- For more information on AA meetings across the greater Boston area: https://aaboston.org/
- For more information about NA meetings: https://nerna.org/find-a-meeting/
F.A.Q.s:
The CAC and SOLE teams will continue to work with student organizations and the ASA to help develop plans to manage the impact of the construction closure over the spring and summer of 2023.
Will spaces allocated to student groups be affected by the Student Center renovation?
This project will have no impact on the vast majority of student organizations in the building. Staff have been reaching out to the small number of groups whose space will be affected.
Will student groups lose space after the Student Center renovations are complete?
No, student groups will not lose space. The allocation of spaces to student organizations will remain the same and will follow the same process that it has in the past.
BUILDING EVACUATION PROCEDURE
In the unlikely event of a fire or other need for a building evacuation, pease observe the following building evacuation procedure:
- Select the nearest exit
- Do not take the elevator
- Activate the manual fire alarm if not already sounding
- Travel along the right-hand side of corridors and stairwells
- If possible, direct yourself to the designated assembly locations* for your building (indoor or outdoor), and away from fire lanes.
- Do not stand in front of the building entrance. Firefighters require easy access to the building.
- If there is inclement weather, take shelter in nearby buildings wherever possible.
- Once the Cambridge Fire Department or MIT housing staff give the ‘all clear,’ you may return to your room.
*Assembly locations are reported on the Emergency Evacuation Plan posted on each floor next to elevators and stairs.
If you have any questions about evacuation procedures, please do not hesitate to contact Division of Student Life (DSL) Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) Program Manager, Alice Ursella, via e-mail at aursella@mit.edu or via phone at (617) 253-4257 or the EHS Office at (617) 452-3477.
Will spaces allocated to student groups be affected by the Student Center renovation?
This project will have no impact on the vast majority of student organizations in the building. Staff have been reaching out to the small number of groups whose space will be affected.
Will student groups lose space after the Student Center renovations are complete?
BUILDING EVACUATION PROCEDURE
In the unlikely event of a fire or other need for a building evacuation, pease observe the following building evacuation procedure:
- Select the nearest exit
- Do not take the elevator
- Activate the manual fire alarm if not already sounding
- Travel along the right-hand side of corridors and stairwells
- If possible, direct yourself to the designated assembly locations* for your building (indoor or outdoor), and away from fire lanes.
- Do not stand in front of the building entrance. Firefighters require easy access to the building.
- If there is inclement weather, take shelter in nearby buildings wherever possible.
- Once the Cambridge Fire Department or MIT housing staff give the ‘all clear,’ you may return to your room.
*Assembly locations are reported on the Emergency Evacuation Plan posted on each floor next to elevators and stairs.
If you have any questions about evacuation procedures, please do not hesitate to contact Division of Student Life (DSL) Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) Program Manager, Alice Ursella, via e-mail at aursella@mit.edu or via phone at (617) 253-4257 or the EHS Office at (617) 452-3477.
