Welcome to the Sidney-Pacific graduate community website!

Below, you will find general information about our community, information about positions on the government (aka House Council) and how you can get involved and live at S-P next year.

Sidney-Pacific is one of the newest and largest graduate residence at MIT, housing 700 students and representing 60 countries from around the world. We organize regular brunches and coffee hours, outings to plays and sporting events, a lecture series with distinguished professors, volunteering opportunities in Cambridge, and the list goes on. All of our events and resources are organized and maintained by a volunteer student government with the help of many enthusiastic residents.

If you are interested in contributing to this community and making it an even better place to live, we encourage you to apply to be an officer. Officers take an active role in enhancing residential life, plus, they get to live at S-P for one year without going through the housing lottery. The application form is available online.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email us at spec[at]mit[dot]edu.

• Application open from March 18 to April 8.
• Process: Interviews and selections will take place at the end of April.
• Eligibility: Open to all MIT students (residents and non-residents) who are eligible to live at S-P. If selected, committee chairs can live in Sidney-Pacific for a one year term. You must have separate application submissions for each position you are applying for.
  
  

• Application open from April 7 to April 21
• Process: Meet your residents between April 15th and 18th. Elections will take place on April 15-24th.
• Eligibility: Open to current S-P residents only. Once elected, hall councilors must live in the hall they represent. NOTE: Residents applying for different halls need to have separate application submissions for each hall they apply for.
  
  

Summary of the SP House Council Election Schedule