Parents Resources
Use These Quick Links as Your MIT Roadmap
This directory, a compilation of the contacts and information most often requested by MIT parents, will help to easily navigate relevant departments and services.
Parents needing additional information may send an email to mykidis@mit.edu or call the Parents Association main line: 617-253-8183. For parent-to-parent questions, contact an MIT Parent Connector.
Your resources
- Advising
- Birthdays (bakeries/florists)
- Bookstores
- Calendars
- Campus (maps, tours, & general info)
- Careers Office
- Commencement
- Cross registration
- Dining
- Disabilities services
- Emergencies
- Financial aid
- Freshmen
- Health
- Housing
- Information
- Insurance
- International student resources
- News
- Orientation
- Religious communities & resources
- Storage options
- Student life
- Transportation
- Travel Program
- Visiting MIT
Advising
Careers Office
12-170; 617-253-4733
Student Support Services (S^3)
5-106; 617-253-4861
Undergraduate Advising and Academic Programming (UAAP) Formerly Academic Resource Center
7-104; 617-253-6771
U-info
Undergraduate and Advising Gateway
Birthdays (cake vendors & florists)
On-Campus Vendors
MIT Catering
617-253-2111
Sodexho
Steve Porter, 617-253-2712
Bon Appetit
Marietta, 617-253-4952
Off-Campus Bakeries
Party Favors
1356 Beacon St.
Brookline, MA 02446
Main Phone: 617-566-3330
Rosie's Bakery
243 Hampshire Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-491-9488
Star Supermarket @ MIT (Ask for the bakery)
20 Sidney St.
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-494-5250
Shaw's Supermarket - Allston (Ask for the bakery)
1065 Commonwealth Ave
Boston, MA 02215
617-783-5878
Florists
Central Square Florist
653 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-354-7553
University Florist
505 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-492-5700
800-874-6357 (toll free)
Bookstores
MIT Coop, Student Center
W20-103
617-499-3240
MIT Coop at Kendall Square
3 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142
617-499-3200
MIT Press Bookstore, Kendall Square
292 Main Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
617-253-5249
Calendars
Campus (maps, tours, & general info)
Careers
Careers Office
12-170
617-253-4733
Commencement
Information Center
7-121
617-253-4795
Cross registration
Cross Registration
U-info
Cross Registration
Registrar's site
Dining
Campus Dining
W20-500
617-253-4875
Disabilities services
Disabilities Services Office
7-145
617-253-1674
Emergencies
Financial aid
Financial Aid
11-320
617-253-4971
Freshmen resources
The First Year at MIT
MIT's Web site for freshmen
See Advising.
Health
MIT Medical
Cambridge, E23
617-253-4481
Lexington, Annex V
781-981-7080
Student Health Insurance Claims
E23-191
617-253-5979
Student Support Services (S^3)
5-106
617-253-4861
Housing
Emergencies, Repair Requests and Front Desk Listings
Fraternities, Sororities & Living Groups (FSILGs)
W20-549
617-253-7546
Fraternity Listings & Contact Information
Housing Office
E19-429
617-253-2404
Independent Living Group Listings & Contact Information
Sorority Listings & Contact Information
Information, general
Information Center
7-121
617-253-4795
MIT Information/Directory Assistance
617-253-1000
Insurance
See Health.
International student resources
International Students Office
5-133
617-253-3795
News
MIT News Office
11-400
617-253-2700
Parents News
W98-Floor 2
617-253-8183
The Tech
W20-483
General: 617-253-1541
Business: 617-258-TECH (8324)
Orientation
Orientation Office
7-103
617-253-6772
Religious communities & resources
Religious Groups - Student Run
Religious Life @ MIT (PDF)
Storage options
Axcess Mobile Storage
1 Tyler Court
Cambridge, MA 02140
617-395-6100
(delivery and pick-up)
EZ Storage
300 Needham St.
Newton, MA 02464
617-244-3100
Metropolitan Moving and Storage
134 Massachusetts Avenue (corner of Vassar St. and Mass. Ave.)
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-547-8180
Patriot Self-Storage Boston
968 Massachusetts Ave
Boston, MA 02118
617-541-5600
888-U-STORE-IT (toll free)
Patriot Self-Storage Medford
55 Commercial St
Medford, MA 02155
781-391-1155
888-U-STORE-IT (toll free)
Student life
Student Life Programs
W20-549
617-253-6777
Transportation
Parking and Transportation
Monday-Friday, 8:30am-4:30pm
617-258-6510
617-253-2997 (after hours)
Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority
Boston Area Public Transit Information
Travel program
Alumni Travel Program
W98-Floor 2
617-252-1148
