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- Acapella Groups
- Concert Groups
- Dance Groups
- Energy Club
- Fossil Free MIT - a student group advocating for MIT to take action on climate change.
- Global Zero - commits to working for a legally binding verifiable agreement including all nations, to eliminate nuclear weapon.
- Graduate Student Council - various committees advocate and organize events and policies for graduate students, check out their open house during orientation.
- Outing Club (MITOC) - MITOC is a student group for all things outdoors- hiking, climbing, kayaking, and more. The club has regular events for people interested in these various activities, in addition to renting out a plethora of outdoor gear to members (including sleeping bags, tents, skis, climbing gear, etc.). Notice: intro circus fills up extremely fast, so if you want a spot, you should be signing up within the first 1-2 minutes after registration opens up.
A more detailed description was written by Elliott:MITOC is outdoors club for anyone interested in having adventures and meeting cool people. MITOC activities are diverse and include just about anything that one can do outdoors: biking, hiking, rock climbing, mountaineering, ice climbing, rafting, kayaking, cross-country skiing, ice skating, down-hill skiing, back country skiing, snowshoeing, etc…. The best way to get involved in MITOC is to sign up on the MITOC website and attend one of the many circuses or the January winter school. MITOC owns two cabins in New Hampshire which are open to all MITOC members. During the circuses ~30-60 MITOC members travel up to the main cabin near Rumney. You spend the night there and the days going on epic hiking trips or other adventures and meeting new folks. The winter school is the best event of the year. It attracts over 500 students annually from MIT and the surrounding boston colleges, Harvard etc… In winter school you spend two evenings a week learning about the essentials of dressing, eating, packing, hydrating, planning, and organizing winter hiking trips. Often MITOC will bring in famous mountaineers to give lectures as well. Every weekend for the month of January you will be able to attend epic hiking trips like: sleeping in snow caves and eating dumplings on top of a mountain for new years, ice hockey on frozen lakes in the wilderness, ice climbing on the cliffs of Rumney, or winter mountaineering on Mt Washington (home of the worst weather in the world).
With MITOC you will make lifelong friends and have many adventures during your time at MIT and afterwards. My own adventures after MITOC have included 2 successful summits on Mt. Rainier, Mt. Whitney in California, and next month Mount Fuji in Japan.
- Religious Clubs: various religious denominations
- Sports Clubs (see below)
- Yoga 24x7
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Group Exercise: MIT gyms offer group exercise classes throughout the day. You need to purchase a pass to join these exercises, but there is one free session at noon Monday through Friday that everyone can attend. Just show up 5-10 minutes early to make sure you get a spot. Also these sessions tend to be more crowded at the beginning of each semester.
Community Wellness Classes
These are classes offered through MIT medical, mostly yoga and pilate type of classes, and they generally cost some of amount of $$. See complete list of classes at http://wellness.mit.edu/classes/wellness/index
In addition to the more regimented athletic activities, MIT has many facilities for you to use from the Olympic-sized swimming pool for laps to squash courts, a multipurpose rink, basketballs, badminton and volleyball nets, and our very own sailing pavilion (highly recommended to take the sailing class so you can sail whenever you want) which are all free!
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- For all graduate students, be sure to read the GSC Anno, a weekly email of events for graduate students including academic/professional, extracurricular, family, and social events. You should be automatically signed up for this email list, but if you are not visit the GSC website here to subscribe.
- For graduate students who live in on-campus housing, your living community will have plenty of fun things to do.
- For off-campus students, be sure to check out the GSC's off campus subcommittee's email list to be informed about fun activities to meet other off-campus students.
- For families, there's a network out there for you to find fun activities and a community of other families too!
Special thanks to the following contributors:
- Elliott Fray (alum class of 2013)
- Leigh Ann Kesler
- Lulu Li
- Rebecca Romotaski