DoingWell At MIT

Virtual 5K Run/Walk Training Program
2024-02-05 00:00 - 2024-02-19 23:59, 2024-02-06 00:00 - 2024-02-20 23:59, 2024-02-07 00:00 - 2024-02-21 23:59, 2024-02-08 00:00 - 2024-02-22 23:59, 2024-02-09 00:00 - 2024-02-23 23:59, 2024-02-10 00:00 - 2024-02-24 23:59, 2024-02-11 00:00 - 2024-02-25 23:59, 2024-02-12 00:00 - 2024-02-26 23:59 UTC and 12 more dates | Massachusetts
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.

The Future for Israelis and Palestinians: What is Possible, What is Likely, and How the Current Conflict Affects What’s Next
2024-02-20 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Online
You MUST use your email address ending in mit.edu or alum.mit.edu. If you do not use your MIT, email address you will not be allowed into the webinar. If you are unable to access your MIT email address, please email us and let us know. At this time that these events are only open to those within the MIT community.

Tunnel Walk Sponsored by getfit
2024-02-20 12:10 - 12:50, 2024-02-22 12:10 - 12:50 (America/New_York) | Stata, 32 Vassar St, 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 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.
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!

Vinyasa Flow Yoga
2024-02-21 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Wellbeing Lab
Increase flexibility, improve stability, and build on inner strength. MIT Recreation instructor, Judi Reilly, will teach you how to link breath to movement in this moderately paced yoga flow.

Tunnel Walk Sponsored by getfit
2024-02-21 12:10 - 12:50, 2024-02-23 12:10 - 12:40 (America/New_York) | Lobby 7, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 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 lobby under the “Belonging + Community” banner.
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.
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!

Launch Your Wellness Tours
2024-02-21 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?

Rethinking Imposter Syndrome™ w/ Dr. Valerie Young
2024-02-22 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Bldg 54-100 (Green Building), Bldg 54-100 (77 Massachusetts Avenue), Cambridge, MA, 02139, United States
• Do you chalk accomplishments up to luck, timing, or the supposed simplicity of the task? • Do you agonize over even the smallest flaws in your work? • Are you crushed by constructive criticism? • Do you wonder if you’re really “smart enough” to be here? • When you do well, do you secretly think, “fooled them again”?
Join the club! Millions of people around the world from new hires to CEOs, first year students to PhDs, artists and engineers secretly worry that they’re not as intelligent or capable as everyone “thinks” they are. It’s called impostor syndrome. And fortunately, there is a solution.
In this upbeat interactive session, you will:
• Understand what impostor syndrome is – and what it is not
• Discover the situational, occupational, familial, organizational, and societal reasons why fully capable students feel like frauds
• Understand the core source of impostor syndrome and why it matters
• Identify your personal “Competence Type”
• Examine how impostor syndrome shows up in the form of a pattern
• Recognize the costs of impostor syndrome to individuals and organizations
Impostor syndrome isn’t just an “interesting self-help topic.” It’s a professional development.
Whether you personally identify with impostor feelings or not, you will leave with three practical, immediately usable tools strategies to help yourself and/or the people you are or will lead, manage, mentor, teach, or parent to unlearn impostor syndrome.
Lunch will be served afterwards, but please RSVP at tinyurl.com/ImpostorTalk so that we can accommodate dietary restrictions and avoid food waste.
This event is sponsored by the MIT School of Science Quality of Life Fund, MIT Office of Graduate Education, and MIT Career Advising & Professional Development.
All members of the MIT community are welcome to attend.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Valerie Young is a global thought leader on impostor syndrome and co-founder of Impostor Syndrome Institute. She has spoken at over 100 colleges and universities including Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, and five times at MIT. She’s also shared her highly relatable and practical advice at such diverse organizations as Pfizer, Microsoft, P&G, Intel, Google, Hello Fresh, NASA, the National Cancer Institute, and the NBA to name a few. Valerie’s work has been cited around the world in publications such as Time, Newsweek, Psychology Today, Science, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Sydney Morning Herald, Globe & Mail, and on BBC radio. She’s author of the award-winning book The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women and Men: Why Capable People Suffer from the Impostor Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It with Random House, published in seven languages.

Lifted By Data
2024-02-22 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Alumni Wang Fitness Center, Zesiger Sports & Athletic Complex, 120 Vassar St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139
We in recreation are so excited to introduce you to a new piece of technology — Enode, which will change the way you lift with us. We’re so pumped about this that we’re taking this show out of the gym, and into the Zesiger Center lobby for a serious premiere!
Join us on February 22nd at 4:00 PM for a special Rec Day clinic showcasing all of the mathematical might that Enode brings. We’ll bring some swag and stickers, too! See you there!

Tunnel Walk Sponsored by getfit
2024-02-23 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 your 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.
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!
