Self-Guided Walking Tour of the MIT Campus P AInformation Center MIT Museum → B Stratton Student Center → N52 C Kresge Auditorium ➔ DMIT Chapel → E Hart Nautical Galleries TECHNOLOGY Building 5 ➔ SQUARE M F Bldg. 3/Design and A Manufacturing Display S S A C GKillian Court H U HHayden Memorial S E Library Building T T S I McDermott Court A V E JTech Coop N M ➔ A U IN KAn Athena Computer E ➔→ S ➔→→ TR Cluster →→ E →→→ ET → ➔→ O L Edgerton’s Strobe T → 32 STREE Stata ➔ R VASSA Alley ➔ Center MBarker Engineering TREET AR S ➔ T SS → Library - Bldg. 10-500 VA E J E E19 Tech Coop → → R NCompton Gallery 57 T → → S T T Bldg. 10-1st floor 68 S ➔ → E Kendall M E18 T O Stata Center → A Square W35 13 ➔ ➔ B ➔ 56 E17 E25 E38 P MIT Museum ➔ Zesiger ➔ 16 → K 66 W20 ➔→→→→ ➔ → → N → Whitaker College ➔→→ Center ➔→ → ➔→→ ➔ ➔ → ➔ ➔ You are here 10 8 → ➔ → 7➔→ M 4 A → E23 Information 54 C Center L 18 → E15 MIT Medical F → D ➔ W16 I 62 64 → ➔→→W15➔ 3 4 6 McDermott E ➔ E14 Court → → 5 → E40 G ➔ ➔→→→ ➔ ➔→→→→→→ ➔→→→→→→→→→→→→→→14N ➔ 14W 14E E2 E53 1 Killian Court 2 E51 H 14S 50 E52 Gray E56 House Sloan School D O R M I T O R I E S MEMORIAL DRIVE MEMORIAL DRIVE Welcome to MIT! held at 10:00 am and names. The numbering you see a number on the route, letters of the alpha- William Barton Rogers, a problems. Today education The following suggested 2:00 pm. system might appear office doors, the first bet are used to avoid distinguished natural and research, with tour route and description confusing at first, but there number refers to the confusion with the building scientist, founded MIT to relevance to the practical should aid you in exploring We suggest that you begin is a logical explanation as building number and then numbers. establish a new kind of world as a guiding the campus on your own. your tour in the Lobby of to how it runs. The following the hyphen is the independent educational principle, continues to be The Information Center Building 7 (Rogers Bldg.) buildings east of the Great room number. Buildings Enjoy your visit! institution relevant to an MIT’s primary purpose. (Building 7-121) offers 77 Massachusetts Avenue Dome and Killian Court west of Massachusetts increasingly industrialized William Rogers was student guided tours of the (Letter A on the map). (Building 10) have even Avenue begin with a “W”, First off some back- America. He believed that President of the Institute campus, Monday through Even though many of the numbers and those west those north of the railroad ground information on professional competence from 1862-70 and 1879-81. Friday at 11:00 am and buildings are named, of it have odd numbers. tracks “N”, and those east MIT to get you started: was best fostered by 3:00 pm, excluding legal people usually refer to the Thus you will find building of Ames Street “E”. Although founded in 1861, coupling teaching and holidays. Admissions buildings by their assigned 1 and 2 on opposite sides To help you navigate the MIT did not admit its first research and by focusing Information Sessions are numbers instead of the of Killian Courtyard. When suggested self-guided tour students until 1865. attention on realworld MIT is independent, co- MIT’s 2009-2010 enrollment Thirty-five current and In the basement there is a Kresge Auditorium Ashdown House, Tang of stairs and turn left educational, and privately is 10,384 students. former members of the U.S. Post Office, an (Bldg.W16): The building Residence Hall, Edgerton into Bldg. 5 wing: Enter endowed. Its five schools Undergraduate enrollment MIT faculty have received optical shop, two hair was designed by Eero House, The Warehouse, the Hart Nautical Gallery and one college encompass is 4,232 students. Graduate the National Medal of salons ,a tailor and Saarinen. Its initial Sidney-Pacific Residence. The Hart Nautical numerous academic depart- enrollment is 6,152 Science. Six former dry cleaning. occupancy was 1955. Approximately 400 graduate Collections of the MIT ments, divisions, and students. Women have members of the MIT The main auditorium and undergraduate students Museum is one of the most degree-granting programs, attended MIT since 1871. faculty have been Take the center stairway to seats 1,200 people. with families live in two important collections of as well as interdisciplinary In fall 2009, there were, awarded the Kyoto Prize. the second floor to see the The Little Theatre, with a campus apartment nautical materials in the centers, laboratories, and 1,916 women enrolled as There are 74 Guggenheim Lobdell dining facility, the capacity of 212, is complexes, Westgate and country. The gallery is programs whose work cuts undergraduates (45 Fellows, 7 Fulbright Catherine N. Stratton used for the theatrical Eastgate. About 80 open weekdays from 10 am across traditional depart- percent) and 1,916 as Scholars, and 21 Lounge, and the Jerome productions including the graduate students live in to 5 pm. mental boundaries. graduate students (31 MacArthur Fellows among B. Wiesner Student Art Drama Shop and undergraduate dorms as current MIT faculty and Gallery. You can exit the graduate resident tutors. Exit the main gallery MIT is located on 168 acres percent).Minority groups Shakespeare Ensemble. staff. building from this level. and turn right and that extend more than a are represented by 48% Downstairs are rehearsal undergraduates, and 18% rooms for the Choral Student Family Housing: continue back to Lobby mile along the Charles River. graduate students. There The Alumni Association, The 4th and 5th floors Society, Concert and Westgate - this five-building 7, (A) are 2,722 international consists of approximately house many of the student Jazz Bands, and various complex located at the Along the route you will students registered at 122,000 former students. activities. There are ensembles. west end of campus Enter Lobby 7 (A) and see sculptures and MIT, 391 undergraduates approximately 200 provides 210 apartments turn right to enter the buildings by distinguished and 2,331 graduate Walking recognized organizations Among Kresge’s interesting for student families. center hallway, known artists and architects. students, for the current and clubs. Many of them features is its outer shell Eastgate - located adjacent as “The Infinite Corri- The central group of MIT’s academic year. There are Tour are open to both faculty which is one eighth of a to Kendall Square, Eastgate dor”: The hallway is interconnecting buildings, approximately 1,025 and students. sphere that floats free from is a 29-story apartment almost 1/6 of a mile long. dedicated in 1916, was faculty members, about Route: the rest of the auditorium. tower with 201 family units. Twice a year the sun designed by architect W. 213 of whom are women. (A) Leave Building 7 Before visiting Kresge Three deeply sunk There are 95 one-bedroom shines the length of the Welles Bosworth (Class of The total teaching staff, lobby and cross Massa- Auditorium you may want abutments support the apartments, 84 larger one- corridor (weather permit- 1889). Many other including faculty, lecturers, chusetts Avenue: Central to visit our new sports shell, while the auditorium’s bedroom apartments, and ting) and people gather to buildings have been instructors, and teaching and Harvard Squares are to facility the Zesiger Center. interior is built up from the 22 two-bedroom watch. Many of the your right, and the Harvard designed by leading assistants, is 1,704. ground. The roof of the apartments. buildings on campus architects, among them, Bridge leading into Boston (C)After leaving the connect. MIT is said to MIT employs about 10,500 is on the left. building is only supported Alvar Aalto, Eduardo people. Student Center walk in three places and in the have about 7 miles of Catalano, I.M.Pei(‘40), D (B) Enter the Julius toward Kresge Audito- middle it is only 3 1/2 ( ) Proceed to the connecting corridors and Stephen Holl, Frank Seventy-four present and Adams Stratton rium (Bldg. W16): inches thick. A Woltkampf Chapel (Bldg. W15) buildings. Gehry, and Eero Saarinen. former members of the Building(Bldg. W20 ) which As you walk towards Organ is located in the You can enter the Chapel Sculptures, murals, and MIT community have won houses the Student Center: Kresge you will see the main auditorium. unless it is being used for (F) Turn right into Bldg. paintings, including works the Nobel Prize, including The architect for the athletics facilities on your a service or function.The 3 and look at the 2.007 of Alexander Calder, Henry eightcurren tfacult y building was Eduardo right, including the new While in Kresge Plaza architect for the building (Design and Manufactur- Moore, and Louise members: H. Robert Horvitz, Catalano - 1965. A major Zesiger Sports and Fitness you can view some of was Eero Saarinen, 1955. ing 1) display in the Nevelson are found medicine/physiology (2002); renovation was completed Center. the living groups located There are currently 32 glass case. Signs in the throughout the campus. in 1989 and the architect Wolfgang Ketterle, physics for the renovation was along the River: Most active and long-standing case will explain the (2001); Richard R. Schrock, Bruner/Cott Associates. M.I.T. offers one of the undergraduates live in MIT’s student religious organiza- contest. chemistry (2005); Philip A. most extensive men’s and 11 Institute houses or in 36 tions. The Chapel bell You may wish to visit the Sharp, medicine/physiology women’s programs of MIT-affiliated fraternities, tower and bell were (G) Proceed to the end When you enter the MIT Museum, 265 (1993); Samuel C.