Virtual 5K Run/Walk Training Program
2024-03-30 00:00 - 2024-04-13 23:59, 2024-03-31 00:00 - 2024-04-14 23:59, 2024-04-01 00:00 - 2024-04-15 23:59, 2024-04-02 00:00 - 2024-04-16 23:59, 2024-04-03 00:00 - 2024-04-17 23:59, 2024-04-04 00:00 - 2024-04-18 23:59, 2024-04-05 00:00 - 2024-04-19 23:59, 2024-04-06 00:00 - 2024-04-20 23:59 UTC and 4 more dates
Does your exercise routine need a jump start? Join getfit and MIT Recreation for a virtual 5K run/walk training program open to the entire MIT community.
We have eight weeks of fun activities and challenges planned to get you ready to run or walk the virtual 5K.
Training starts on Tuesday, February 22, 2022 and the virtual 5K takes place April 11 – 24.

Tunnel Walk Sponsored by getfit
2024-04-01 07:10 - 07:40 (America/New_York) | E25 Atrium, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge, MA, 02139, United States
Want to get exercise at the start of the day but don’t want to go outside? Join the tunnel walk for a 30-minute walk led by a volunteer through MIT’s famous tunnel system*. This walk may include stairs/inclines. Wear comfortable shoes. Free.
Location details: Meet in the atrium by the staircase.
Tunnel Walk Leaders will have a white flag they will raise at the meeting spot for you to find them.
Special 20th Anniversary Prize Drawing: Attend a walk and scan a QR code from the walk leaders to be entered into a drawing for a getfit backpack at the end of the getfit challenge. The more walks you attend, the more entries you get. Winner will be drawn and notified at the end of April. Winner does not need to be a getfit participant.
*When the weather is nice, walk leaders may offer to walk outside rather than through the tunnels. The majority vote of the group will decide whether the walk is indoors or outdoors.
Disclaimer: Tunnel walks are led by volunteers. In the rare occasion when a volunteer isn’t able to make it, we will do our best to notify participants. In the event we are unable to notify participants and a walk leader does not show up, we encourage you to walk as much as you feel comfortable doing so. We encourage you to check the website just before you head out!
Getfit is a 12-week fitness challenge for the entire MIT community. These tunnel walks are open to the entire MIT community and you do not need to be a current getfit participant to join.

Tunnel Walk Sponsored by getfit
2024-04-01 12:10 - 12:40, 2024-04-02 12:10 - 12:40, 2024-04-04 12:10 - 12:40, 2024-04-09 12:10 - 12:40 (America/New_York) | Stata Lobby
Want to get exercise mid-day but don’t want to go outside? Join the tunnel walk for a 30-minute walk led by a volunteer through MIT’s famous tunnel system*. This walk may include stairs/inclines. Wear comfortable shoes. Free.
Location details: Meet in the lobby with the big mirror, right inside the Collier Memorial entrance to Stata.
Tunnel Walk Leaders will have a white flag they will raise at the meeting spot for you to find them.
Special 20th Anniversary Prize Drawing: Attend a walk and scan a QR code from the walk leaders to be entered into a drawing for a getfit backpack at the end of the getfit challenge. The more walks you attend, the more entries you get. Winner will be drawn and notified at the end of April. Winner does not need to be a getfit participant.
*When the weather is nice, walk leaders may offer to walk outside rather than through the tunnels. The majority vote of the group will decide whether the walk is indoors or outdoors.
Disclaimer: Tunnel walks are led by volunteers. In the rare occasion when a volunteer isn’t able to make it, we will do our best to notify participants. In the event we are unable to notify participants and a walk leader does not show up, we encourage you to walk as much as you feel comfortable doing so. We encourage you to check the website just before you head out!
Getfit is a 12-week fitness challenge for the entire MIT community. These tunnel walks are open to the entire MIT community and you do not need to be a current getfit participant to join.

Tea with the RD
2024-04-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Wellbeing Lab
Come meet MIT Recreations Registered Dietician, Rosanne Walsh for a cup of Tea. Ask Rosanne any nutrition questions you may have and learn about resources available to you. Open to everyone! Free tea and snacks provided.

Cooking with the RD
2024-04-03 14:30 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Wellbeing Lab
Come meet MIT Recreations’ Registered Dietician, Rosanne Walsh and Learn how to make some no bake treats. You can ask the RD any nutrition questions you may have or learn about resources available to you! Open to everyone and snacks will be provided!

Tomorrow Time!
2024-04-03 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Wellbeing Lab
Struggling with Procrastination? Trying to finish some tasks and check things off your To-Do List? Want to friendly, supportive place to sit together with other people hoping to get things done? S^3 hosts weekly Drop-in co-working hours on Wednesdays 4:00-5:00 pmin the Wellbing Lab (W-20) and Thursdays 10:00-11:00 am in the S^3 conference room (5-104). All are welcome!

Graduate & Postdoc Mental Health & Wellbeing: An Interview with Sherry Turkle (virtual)
2024-04-03 16:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York)
Come and hear from one of MIT’s most thought-provoking scholars. Sherry Turkle joins CAPD in an interview to discuss her graduate experience and reflect on how graduate studies have evolved, offer insight on the challenges she’s faced and those our graduate students and postdocs face today, and consider how you can maintain a healthy relationship with technology when your work depends on its use, development, and application.
Sherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT, and the founding director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. Professor Turkle received a joint doctorate in sociology and personality psychology from Harvard University and is a licensed clinical psychologist. Professor Turkle writes on the “subjective side” of people’s relationships with technology, especially computers. She is an expert on culture and therapy, mobile technology, social networking, and sociable robotics.
This session is targeted for graduate students and postdocs, but may also be appropriate for recent alumni and undergraduates who are thinking about pursuing their own graduate degrees.
Register for this event in Handshake here https://mit.joinhandshake.com/events/1506727/share_preview
Virtual Event: https://mit.zoom.us/j/98216227884

Seeds of Hope from ORSEL
2024-04-04 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Wellbeing Lab
Welcome Spring and brighten your room by growing a plant! Pick up you seed kit on Thursday, April 4th from 3pm – 5pm in the Wellbeing Lab. Each kit includes a small pot with saucer, a dissolvable soil disk, a packet of sees to grow one of three plants (basil, forget me not, tomato).

Boba Night
2024-04-05 21:00 - 23:00 (America/New_York) | Wellbeing Lab
Need a break after your first week back? Come by the Wellbeing Lab this Friday (4/5) for free boba and board games!

Self Defense Class with IMPACT Boston
2024-04-06 11:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | W35-375
Join WXGS, LBGTQ+ Services, and IMPACT Boston for a FREE full-impact, trauma-informed self-defense class taught by trained instructors from IMPACT Boston. You will gain verbal and physical tools to more safely and effectively advocate for yourself and others. This class will center on the experiences of all women and non-binary communities intersecting with LBGTQ+ identities, and all MIT students are welcome to attend.
Free registration is required. Please note that all information you share will be confidential and will not be shared. WXGS, LBGTQ+, and IMPACT staff will only have access to the information.

Basketweaving
2024-04-06 21:00 - 23:00 (America/New_York) | Wellbeing Lab
Meet members of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society and learn to weave traditional Cherokee single-wall reed baskets. Open to everyone! Free snacks (cookies/brownies) provided.

Civil Discourse in the Classroom and Beyond
2024-04-08 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Civil Discourse in the Classroom and Beyond Speaker Series Spring 2024
These events are free and unticketed. Registration information for the Prasad and deBoer events TBA.
“Israel/Palestine: What Next?”
With Hussein Ibish (Arab Gulf States Institute), Shanie Reichman (Israel Policy Forum), Tarek Masoud (Harvard), Shai Feldman (Brandeis), and others TBC.
February 13, 7-8.30p, 1-190
Registration: http://mitcdp.ticketleap.com/israelpalestine-what-next/
“Can We Trust Medical Science?”
with Vinay Prasad, author of Ending Medical Reversal and Malignant, and MIT’s Peko Hosoi (MECHE)
February 26, 7-8.30p, details TBA.
“Did Elites Eat the Social Justice Movement?”
with Freddie deBoer, author of How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
April 8, 7-8.30p, details TBA.
The events are followed by a reception. All welcome!

Mini Wellness Consultations
2024-04-10 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Wellbeing Lab
Have any fitness questions you just can’t figure out? Not sure how to get started? Just want someone to look at your squat form? Come chat with MIT Recreation’s Full-Time Certified Personal Trainer, Nichell Latimore for a wellness consultation.

Tunnel Walk sponsored by getfit
2024-04-10 12:10 - 12:40 (America/New_York) | E25 Atrium, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge, MA, 02139, United States
Want to get exercise mid-day but don’t want to go outside? Join the tunnel walk for a 30-minute walk led by a volunteer through MIT’s famous tunnel system*. This walk may include stairs/inclines. Wear comfortable shoes. Free.
Location details: Meet in the atrium by the staircase.
Tunnel Walk Leaders will have a white flag they will raise at the meeting spot for you to find them.
Special 20th Anniversary Prize Drawing: Attend a walk and scan a QR code from the walk leaders to be entered into a drawing for a getfit backpack at the end of the getfit challenge. The more walks you attend, the more entries you get. Winner will be drawn and notified at the end of April. Winner does not need to be a getfit participant.
*When the weather is nice, walk leaders may offer to walk outside rather than through the tunnels. The majority vote of the group will decide whether the walk is indoors or outdoors.
Disclaimer: Tunnel walks are led by volunteers. In the rare occasion when a volunteer isn’t able to make it, we will do our best to notify participants. In the event we are unable to notify participants and a walk leader does not show up, we encourage you to walk as much as you feel comfortable doing so. We encourage you to check the website just before you head out!
Getfit is a 12-week fitness challenge for the entire MIT community. These tunnel walks are open to the entire MIT community and you do not need to be a current getfit participant to join.

Launch Your Wellness Tours
2024-04-10 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Alumni Wang Fitness Center, Zesiger Sports & Athletic Complex, 120 Vassar St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139
Are you ready to “blast off” into the new year? Let us help you Launch Your Wellness! This year we’re hosting not one, but two tours per month. On the second Wednesday of each month starting on January 10th, we’ll be showcasing the Zesiger Center. On the Third Wednesday of each month, we’ll shift the information sessions and tour across campus to Alumni/Wang. But wait, there’s more! The Alumni tour will include the opportunity to sign up for a special Community Cycle Class (space limited to first come, first serve)!
It’s time to Launch your Wellness, MIT! What better time than right now?
