Health, Wellness and Recreation

Being a student at MIT Sloan can be exciting and invigorating—and it can also be stressful and overwhelming. MIT and Sloan offer a wide array of programs and services to support your health and well-being.

Sloan Facilities

Are you looking for a quiet place to meditate, pray, or just rest? There are three designated spaces at Sloan. These rooms accommodate multiple users, so we ask that you enter quietly and remove your shoes.
Access: The Student Life Office can grant keycard access to any of these rooms by request. Please stop in or send a message to slquestions@mit.edu, indicating your full name, your MIT ID number, and the room(s) you wish to have access to.

  • E52-112 is designated for Muslim prayer
  • E52-212 and E51-050 are available for meditation and prayer for all
  • Nursing Mother's Room: Our space for nursing mothers is in E51-014.
E51-050 Quiet Room
E52-212 Quiet Room

E52-112 Muslim Prayer Room

Milestone Life Events

Student Life wants to ensure we’re supporting our Sloanies through all of life’s big moments. Whether it's celebrating a wedding, welcoming a new baby, or offering condolences during a loss, we want to be there. If you know anyone who's recently experienced a big milestone, we’d love to send them a card, a onesie, or even a cute stuffed Beaver from our team. Let us know here.

Sloan Sports and Recreation

You will find numerous clubs at Soan that support community-building through the facilitation of team activities. Many of the MIT Sloan sports and recreation clubs participate in MIT Intramural Sports leagues, hold competitive matches against other business schools, and are open to students of all experience levels.

Check out Sloan Groups for information on current clubs and activities.

Community Wellness at MIT

Community Wellness at MIT Health works with the entire MIT community to provide the resources and programs that can help you make healthy choices. Their offerings include the following:

  • Sleep: Learn relaxation techniques and other ways to improve your sleep schedule.
  • Stress Reduction, Mindfulness, and Relaxation: Learn to manage stress through classes and workshops, audio files, and in-person consultations.
  • Sexual Health: Information, supplies, and counseling about sex and sexuality.
  • Health and Wellness Coaching: Trained coaches can help you achieve greater physical and mental wellbeing through goal setting, accountability, and support.
  • Eating Healthfully: Learn to make healthy eating choices and recognize the warning signs for eating and body-image problems.
  • MedLinkSs: Trained student liaisons work with undergraduates and MIT Medical, supporting students' health in living groups and in the MIT community.
  • MindHandHeart: Students, faculty, and staff working together for a healthier, stronger, more welcome MIT community.

MIT DAPER

MIT's Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation (DAPER) offers opportunities for sports instruction and participation at all levels. Highlights include the following:

  • MIT supports one of the broadest intercollegiate athletic programs in the world. There are 16 varsity sprots for men, 15 for women, and 2 coeducational programs.
  • MIT's Physical Education program offers a variety of courses in Aquatics, Dance, Fitness, Health and Wellness, Individual Sports, Martial Arts, Outdoor Education, and Team Sports.
  • The intramural program offers competition in 18 sports with 4,000 students, faculty, alumni, spouses, and partners participating.
  • MIT features one of the nation's most expansive club programs, with more than 800 participants and 33 teams.
  • For those who wish to engage in other recreational programs, MIT provides group exercise and mind and body classes, personal and group training, a variety of aquatic classes, and sport skill instruction.