Hundreds of our students now work with elementary school children in Cambridge and Boston. In fact, one-third of all MIT undergraduates participate in at least one activity each year sponsored by the Public Service Center. The Center, which this fall celebrates its tenth year, coordinates all the community service volunteer opportunities for the campus and runs dozens of programs involving MIT students in various community service agencies in meaningful ways. By running a charity program, tutoring children, or reading to the blind, students gain leadership and communication skills and acquire a greater sense of social responsibility. Many develop a lifetime commitment to service.
Many students say it is in giving back that they receive their greatest rewards.
MIT students dream great dreams, and while they are here they obtain many of the skills and insights needed to achieve them. Our students are the leaders of tomorrow, the extraordinary young men and women who know the world is a place they have the power not only to influence but to change, and who will move into the next century together creating a better nation and world for us all.