Pictured: turkey friends partying it up on the wild streets of Cambridge
It’s good to keep up your hobbies as a graduate student and to maintain an active social life! It’s important for your personal well-being, it’s helpful to build a large network of connections, and furthermore non-physics activities are a great way to improve soft skills that will translate well over towards your physics career.
You’ll find your grad student friends participating in everything around campus from the orchestra to intramural sports to student government, and in all sorts of exciting opportunities in the greater Boston area. Don’t be shy! Graduate students are of course welcome in these activities.
Opportunities in our department
- Regularly occurring events list
- Physics Resources for Easing Friction and Stress (PhysREFS)
- Graduate Womxn in Physics (GWIP)
- Broader list of organizations
Service, advocacy, mentoring, and outreach opportunities
- Graduate service activities in our department
- MIT governance
- Outreach and mentoring
- Science and public policy
- Anti-racism education and advocacy
More organizations at MIT
- Arts at MIT
- Theater and dance
- Music ensembles
- Department of athletics, physical education and recreation
- Classes offered in other departments, e.g. data science, global languages, and the business school
- Cultural and social identity offices and organizations
- Opportunities specifically geared towards underrepresented populations
- Full list of MIT student organizations
Dorms and pubs
- The graduate dorms often host events open to the whole grad student community
- MIT’s Muddy Charles Pub
- MIT’s Thirsty Ear Pub
How to hear about events
- The physics Academics Programs Office sends out a weekly email to all students with lists of academic opportunities
- The weekly Graduate Student Council Anno compiles a list of all upcoming events, initiatives, and opportunities on campus
- The Tech, MIT’s student newspaper, often contains interesting news and commentary from around campus
Things around Boston