MIT Medical would like you to know about other MIT programs
that promote health and wellness for the community:
Nightline
Nightline is a student-staffed, peer-listening service
for MIT students. A male and female staffer are available
7 p.m. to 7 a.m. each night of the term to talk about
anything on your mind, from eating disorders, suicide,
and family problems to restaurant suggestions and sports
scores.
For details please visit the Nightline
web site. If you're interested in becoming a nightline
staff member, please call 617-253-8800 and ask for an
interview.
LifeSites
LifeSites provides quick access to hundreds of services,
activities, programs, and groups that support members
of the MIT community and their families. For more information,
please visit the Lifesites
web site, stop by the Center for Work, Family and
Personal Life in Building 16-151, or call 617-253-1592.
Center for Work, Family and Personal Life
The Center
for Work Family and Personal Life provides information
on child care, parenting, schooling, and other family-related
issues. The Center also sponsors initiatives designed to
strengthen and promote activities that support the personal
lives of members of the MIT community. For information
about upcoming programs, please call 617-253-1592 or e-mail
the Center at worklife@mit.edu.
Student Support Services (S3)
MIT's Student
Support Services (S3) offers confidential
counseling for students, as well as for any member of the
MIT community who may be worried about a student. The office
also oversees the peer counseling hotline, Nightline (see
above), supports under-represented student groups, and
advocates for students as part of the Committee on Academic
Performance. For more information, please visit the S3 web
site, stop by the office in Building 5, Room 104, or
call 617-253-4861.
Disabilities Services Office
The Disabilities Services Office (DSO) works with MIT faculty
and staff, as well as with external programs and resources,
to ensure that students with disabilities have meaningful
access to MIT facilities. For more information about
DSO, please visit the DSO
web site, come by the office in E19-215, or call
617-253-6151.
Fitness Centers
MIT runs two fitness centers for students, employees, and
affiliates. Please call for membership information:
Zesiger
Sports and Fitness Center ("Z" Center),
Cambridge, 617-452-3690
Lexington Fitness Center, 781-981-2003
spouses&partners@mit
MIT's spouses'
and partners' network helps the wives, husbands, and
partners of MIT students and staff find the friends, language
support, health resources, and other guidance they need
to settle into life in the Boston area. For more information,
visit spouses&partners@mit.edu,
or call 617-253-1614.
spouses&partners@mit also sponsors the Language
Conversation Exchange (LCE), which finds conversation
partners for people interested in practicing another
language with a native speaker. Anyone affiliated with
MIT is eligible to participate, including students, employees,
visiting scientists and scholars, faculty, and family
members. Language partners arrange the time, place, and
frequency of meetings, typically once a week for an hour.
Aging Successfully
The MIT Women's League sponsors an annual lecture called "Aging
Successfully," which focuses on a different topic each
year. For this year's topic, please visit the Aging Successfully
Lecture web site.
Aging Successfully Lecture