MIT Learning, Life, and Culture

Peek under the dome and see what makes an education and experience at MIT so powerful. Tour the beautiful campus and learn how our multicultural student body, faculty, and staff live, learn, work, and play. Our residence halls, athletics, student clubs, volunteer opportunities, and community resources will be on display!

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• Scheduled Activities
• All Day Activities

9:00am - 10:00am	Shallow water power hour
9:30am - 10:30am	Restorative Yoga
10:30am - 12:30pm	Underwater video swim stroke analysis
11:00am - 3:00pm	Chaplaincy history exhibit
11:00am - 3:00pm	Physics demonstration exhibit
11:00am - 1:00pm	Army National Guard and MIT ROTC UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter fly-in
11:00am - 3:00pm	Family Fit Walk
11:00am - 1:00pm	The incredible water bear!
11:00am - 1:00pm	Fencing demonstration – Q&A
11:00am - 1:00pm	MIT Toastmasters Public Speaking Group presents "Speech-athon"
11:00am - 3:30pm	Fly a SPHERES satellite
11:00am - 2:00pm	Aircraft carrier deck operations — action planner demo
11:00am - 1:00pm	Geiger Trophy: varsity co-ed sailing competition on the Charles River
11:00am - 12:00pm	Flying parrot, unmanned aerial vehicles
11:00am - 1:00pm	Digital mapping tools introduced by MIT GIS services
11:30am - 12:30pm	Plasma and pickles
11:30am - 12:00pm	Meet MIT authors! Book signing with Sandy Pentland, author of "Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World"
11:30am - 12:30pm	MIT undergraduate admissions information session 1
12:00pm - 12:30pm	Meet MIT authors! Book signing with Sanjoy Mahajan, author of "Street-Fighting Mathematics"
12:00pm - 3:00pm	A visual exhibit of the Office of Minority Education (OME) programs through the years
12:00pm - 3:00pm	Global education and career development open house
12:00pm - 2:00pm	Golf swing analysis
12:00pm - 12:40pm	Panel discussion: What can a graduate degree do for you?
12:00pm - 4:00pm	Student clubs & teams open house
12:00pm - 1:00pm	Interactive teaching workshop
12:30pm - 3:00pm	Ballroom dance: learning session and performance
12:30pm - 2:30pm	Pictures with Tim the Beaver
12:30pm - 1:00pm	Meet MIT authors! Book signing with Jay Keyser, author of "Mens et Mania: The MIT Nobody Knows"
1:00pm - 1:30pm	Meet MIT authors! Book signing with David Mindell, author of "Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight"
1:00pm - 3:00pm	How students with disabilities successfully navigate a university education
1:00pm - 4:00pm	Tech Model Railroad Club Open House
1:00pm - 2:30pm	Do-It Tours by the Hobby Shop, Edgerton Center Student Shop, and D-Lab
1:00pm - 3:00pm	Tackling real-world challenges: ESD PhD poster session
1:00pm - 1:45pm	Three "flavors" of magnetism
1:00pm - 1:30pm	What is it like to be an MIT student?
1:00pm - 3:00pm	Media Laboratory project demonstrations
1:00pm - 3:00pm	MIT Public Service Center
1:00pm - 3:00pm	Personal training demonstrations
1:00pm	Welcome and Greetings from Cambridge Mayor David Maher and MIT President Susan Hockfield
1:00pm - 4:00pm	Stopping time at the Edgerton Center
1:30pm - 2:00pm	Meet MIT authors! Book signing with Philip Alexander, author of "A Widening Sphere: Evolving Cultures at MIT"
1:30pm - 4:00pm	Distinguished faculty lectures with chemist Richard Schrock and economists Peter Diamond and Esther Duflo
2:00pm - 3:00pm	Learn the ROPES about leadership
2:00pm - 4:00pm	Apps 4 academics
2:00pm - 3:00pm	Interactive teaching workshop
2:00pm - 3:00pm	Greek Week Keynote
2:00pm - 4:00pm	Urban planning public lectures
2:00pm - 2:30pm	What is it like to be an MIT student?
2:00pm - 4:00pm	Earth science in the 21st century
2:00pm - 2:40pm	Panel discussion: What can a graduate degree do for you?
2:00pm - 4:00pm	MIT Toastmasters Public Speaking Group presents "Speech-athon"
2:00pm - 2:30pm	Meet MIT authors! Book signing with Erik Brynjolfsson, author of "Wired for Innovation: How IT is Reshaping the Economy"
2:00pm - 3:00pm	Women in engineering: coffee and dessert
2:25pm - 3:10pm	Distinguished faculty lecture with Professor Peter Diamond, 2010 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
2:30pm - 4:00pm	Do-It Tours by the Hobby Shop, Edgerton Center Student Shop, and D-Lab
2:45pm - 4:00pm	Gender, race, and the complexities of science and technology
3:00pm - 3:30pm	What is it like to be an MIT student?
3:00pm - 4:00pm	A first course in quantum mechanics: Educational Studies Program
3:00pm - 4:00pm	Experimental Study Group — Open House
3:00pm - 4:00pm	MIT undergraduate admissions information session 2
3:00pm - 4:00pm	Plasma and pickles
3:15pm - 4:00pm	Distinguished faculty lecture with Esther Duflo, Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics
3:15pm - 4:00pm	Learn to folk dance
4:00pm - 7:00pm	Visitor and alumni fly-in to Beverly Airport (with BBQ!)

11:00am - 4:00pm	2011 Residential Life time capsule
11:00am - 4:00pm	A showcase of invention as public service at MIT
11:00am - 4:00pm	A showcase of performances by MIT Student Groups
11:00am - 4:00pm	Alumni Association and MIT Club of Boston
11:00am - 4:00pm	Autonomous robotics competition
11:00am - 4:00pm	Battlecode! Artificial intelligence programming competition
11:00am - 4:00pm	Bits, electrons, and robots
11:00am - 4:00pm	BLOSSOMS: building science, technology, engineering, and math STEM education worldwide
11:00am - 4:00pm	Check mate: blitz chess and other games
11:00am - 4:00pm	Children's activity area
11:00am - 4:00pm	Compton Gallery — MIT150 exhibition
11:00am - 4:00pm	Constructing a steel bridge
11:00am - 4:00pm	Cracking up! How rock cracks under stress
11:00am - 4:00pm	Creative talents: music performances, yo-yo's, and more
11:00am - 4:00pm	Day of recreation at the Zesiger Center
11:00am - 4:00pm	Discover MIT's Department of Biology with videos of distinguished faculty and more
11:00am - 4:00pm	Display booth and flower sale
11:00am - 4:00pm	Eliot K. Wolk Gallery — design competition exhibit
11:00am - 4:00pm	Exhibit: student life through the decades
11:00am - 4:00pm	Exhibits from the MIT Glass Lab, Student Art Association, and the MIT Hobby Shop
11:00am - 4:00pm	Festival of Art + Science + Technology Installations (FAST): Bibliodoptera
11:00am - 4:00pm	Festival of Art + Science + Technology Installations (FAST): Dis[Course]4
11:00am - 4:00pm	Festival of Art + Science + Technology Installations (FAST): Gradated Field
11:00am - 4:00pm	Festival of Art + Science + Technology Installations (FAST): MIT Mood Meter
11:00am - 4:00pm	Festival of Art + Science + Technology Installations (FAST): Night of Numbers
11:00am - 4:00pm	Festival of Art + Science + Technology Installations (FAST): Overliner
11:00am - 4:00pm	Festival of Art + Science + Technology Installations (FAST): Soft Rockers
11:00am - 4:00pm	Festival of Art + Science + Technology Installations (FAST): String Tunnel
11:00am - 4:00pm	Festival of Art + Science + Technology Installations (FAST): voltaDom
11:00am - 4:00pm	Festival of Art + Science + Technology Installations (FAST): Wind Screen
11:00am - 4:00pm	GAMBIT game lab open house
11:00am - 4:00pm	Getting into college: preparations and process
11:00am - 4:00pm	Graduate student life and learning
11:00am - 4:00pm	Hands-on tour of "Junior Lab" in the Department of Physics
11:00am - 4:00pm	Hart Nautical Gallery exhibit
11:00am - 4:00pm	Hobby Shop open house
11:00am - 4:00pm	Koch Institute Public Galleries
11:00am - 4:00pm	LEGO robots save the universe!
11:00am - 4:00pm	Magnetic levitating ball and inverted pendulum demonstrations
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT Electronics Research Society (MITERS) Open House
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT fraternity, sorority, and independent living groups: a history of public service
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI)—poster session
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT Museum inside out
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT OpenCourseWare: unlocking knowledge and empowering minds
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT Residential Life walking tours
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT150 Open House Tweetup
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT150 raffle
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT150 welcome lounge
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT: an employer of choice
11:00am - 4:00pm	Mobile advanced command and control system display
11:00am - 4:00pm	OpenKinect symphony conductor — conduct the music of your dreams!
11:00am - 4:00pm	Painting the Financial Picture of MIT
11:00am - 4:00pm	Paper airplane competition
11:00am - 4:00pm	Participate in video game research
11:00am - 4:00pm	Preserving your family's history
11:00am - 4:00pm	Renewable energy, cheap charcoal, rainwater harvesting and water purification in Uganda
11:00am - 4:00pm	Residential Life information booth
11:00am - 4:00pm	TALARIS and Exoplanet Sat: how do Draper and MIT engineers get a spacecraft to hop or look at stars in space to discover planets?
11:00am - 4:00pm	Technology and Development Program, MIT Abu Dhabi Program
11:00am - 4:00pm	Technology-enabled education at MIT: learn how technology advances learning and teaching
11:00am - 4:00pm	Terrascope 2013: reducing atmospheric CO2
11:00am - 4:00pm	The dawn of MIT: its founding documents and buildings
11:00am - 4:00pm	The people behind the award — MIT awards convocation
11:00am - 4:00pm	Timeline of MIT Athletics through the years
11:00am - 4:00pm	Timeline of MIT engineering
11:00am - 4:00pm	Transition: the flying car (or drivable airplane)
11:00am - 4:00pm	Undergraduate admissions reception center
11:00am - 4:00pm	Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program: posters and popcorn at the success accelerator!
11:00am - 4:00pm	Use brain wave sensors in SCRATCH
11:00am - 4:00pm	Visit the actual offices of MIT's President and Provost
11:00am - 4:00pm	What is the Engineering Systems Division (ESD)?
11:00am - 4:00pm	Wiesner Student Art Gallery
11:00am - 4:00pm	Zero robotics competition