Welcome to Sidney-Pacific!

Sidney-Pacific is the biggest and best graduate residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The S-P community comprises 750 graduate students from more than 50 nations around the globe. Here at S-P, we enjoy access to an impressive assortment of facilities and equipment, from the weight room and the drum set to the pool table and the DVD library. Nonetheless, it is S-P's talented residents--experts in fields frommathematics and engineering to economics and architecture--that make the community so special.

We have prepared this orientation guide to help introduce you to the S-P community and the many resources available to its members. We hope that you will find it useful during your first weeks at S-P and beyond.

Let us also call your attention to the calendar of orientation activities on pages 4 and 5 of this guide. We have planned a variety of dinners, outings, and parties over the coming weeks to entertain you and provide you the opportunity to meet your new neighbors and colleagues.

We hope you will enjoy yourself during orientation and throughout your time at S-P!

P.S. Don't forget to join the S-P Facebook Group and Yahoo Group !