Maintain Your Wellbeing During Winter Break! This can be a great time to prioritize your own wellbeing. This winter break guide offers tips, resources, local activities, and support services available to help!

Winter Warmth

3rd Floor Student Center, Coffeehouse Lounge

Join us for hot chocolate, tea, face masks, treats, and make your own goodie bags to keep or gift

Crepes and Cards

3rd Floor Student Center, Coffeehouse Lounge

Join us to create custom crepes and write cards to loved ones!

Chill & De-Stress Before Finals

3rd Floor Student Center, Coffeehouse Lounge

Chill & De-Stress Before Finals with the Office of Student Wellbeing Wednesday, Dec. 14 | 10:30AM-1:30PM | Coffeehouse Lounge, 3rd Floor (W20) Release some of that end-of-semester stress with a free chair massage, snacks, coloring, and other stress-relieving activities. Chair massages are offered free on a first-come, first-served basis. Signing up in advance commits you...

Free

Free Tai Chi Class

Alumni Wang Fitness Center, Zesiger Sports & Athletic Complex 120 Vassar St, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Join MIT Recreation for our first Tai Chi class, free with registration! Meditation in Motion: "Silk Reeling", slow movement with a focus on lumbar and sacral opening, articulation, mobility, and yogic breath. There will be loose lecturing on the “5 Elements Theory".

Free

Let’s Chat

4-107 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 4-107, Cambridge, MA, United States

Got a problem? Talk it out with us. Visit “Let’s Chat”, a drop-in service that provides MIT undergraduate and graduate students with easy access to informal, free, confidential, 20–minute consultations with clinicians from MIT Medical’s Student Mental Health & Counseling Services. No appointment is needed and no commitment to more meetings is required. The Let’s...

Free

Event Series Monday Mindfulness

Monday Mindfulness

Zoom Virtual, Cambridge, MA, United States

This free mindfulness course will include skills from the Koru Mindfulness toolkit, including breathing techniques, meditation practices, and mindfulness tips to help relieve stress and to calm mind and body. All experience levels welcome. There will be no class on Monday, January 16, 2023.

Free

Virtual Cooking Demo: Cool as a Cucumber with Chef Angela Hoffman

Zoom Virtual, Cambridge, MA, United States

Join the MIT Office of Sustainability for a Virtual Cooking Demo with guest chef Angela Hofmann, Owner of Nüssli118 (just a few Red Line stops away from MIT), who will demonstrate how to prepare delicious, nutritious, plant-based meals using simple, affordable (and seasonal!) ingredients. This will be a Virtual Cooking Demonstration, join from the comfort...

Event Series Noon Unwind

Noon Unwind

Zoom Virtual, Cambridge, MA, United States

This live, virtual 15-minute class is a combination of simple stretches to release tension in the body and guided meditation to mentally reset during the day. It is offered on Tuesdays and Thursdays to encourage taking a break midday. Register for free anytime, attend as often as you wish, and feel free to invite others...

Free

Vision As Contemplation: Meditation, Art, and Neuroscience in Conversation

MIT Museum 314 Main Street Building E28, Cambridge, Massachusetts

MIT MuseumBuilding E28 314 Main St., CambridgeThursday, February 16, 6 – 7:30 p.m. The event is free, pre registration is required. Register here.  Sara Lazar, Associate Researcher in Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor in Psychology at Harvard Medical SchoolThe Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, Director of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values...

Free

Rec Day 2023

Z Center Lobby

As stated on the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA) website, February 22nd commemorates “the vision set in motion by Dr. William Wasson and his esteemed colleagues at the first NIRSA Conference: To celebrate health, activity, competition and inclusivity.” As a result, campus recreation departments are celebrating around the country. So, here at MIT, we will...

Free

Trivia Night

4-149

Come have fun! Challenge your friends! Win some cool prizes! Make some new friends!

Sleep Reboot: Spring Time Change Edition

Virtual

Learn the practical science of better sleep. Use simple, effective techniques to get your sleep (back) on track. This workshop will also help you prepare for the spring clock change on 3/12/23. Register using this link 

Free