Join Us for Two Pub Nights This April with MIT Spouses & Partners Connect! 🍻🎉 Enjoy complimentary snacks (courtesy of MS&PC, while they last) and affordable drinks for purchase (cash only). Don’t miss out on the fun—come mingle, relax, make new friends, and meet old ones.✅ Registration is required and must be confirmed, as space is limited. ✅ Please bring your MIT ID and a valid passport/local ID (21+).If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to spousesandpartners@mit.edu.💡 Only for MIT Spouses & Partners Connect members.

Experience the immediate benefits of myofascial release with this simple and effective self-care practice. Learn specialized ball rolling techniques that help penetrate through layers of skin, fascia and muscle and massage into your high-tension areas.Each class includes guided exercises using the Roll Model therapy balls, breath work and stretching techniques specifically designed to ease overburdened muscles and encourage deep mind-body relaxation. Explore various muscle groups and needy body areas each week to eliminate strain and discomfort from sitting too long, working on screens and living with stress.You will find greater self-awareness, freedom and ease in your body. Put the power of self-massage into your own hands.All levels welcome! This is a movement class and workout attire is strongly encouraged.Registration is required on our wellness class website. If you do not already have an account on this website, you'll need to create one. This is a fee-based class and open to the entire MIT community.

Time: 4:00 PMLocation: Cambridge, MA

Come to Ashdown to chill and bond over catered dinner and a Netflix movie.

Featuring Professors Richard Binzel and Sara Seager from the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.Join us Friday night during Massachusetts Space Week to explore the exciting science happening in the search for life elsewhere in our solar system—and beyond—with our panel of experts as your guide:Richard P. Binzel (MIT EAPS)Sara Seager (MIT EAPS)Bill Diamond (SETI Institute)Gabriela Radulescu (Smithsonian Air & Space Museum)Find us live at the MIT Welcome Center in Kendall Square, or online via live stream — link to be added soon!Register now! Tickets are FREEWhat is Massachusetts Space Week, organized by the Space Consortium?Massachusetts Space Week is an annual, week-long celebration that seeks to bridge the gap between academia and the broader community and to foster a shared enthusiasm for space science, through engaging events such as a Space Film Festival, a Space Career Fair, and more than 80 space events statewide.Launched in 2017, The Space Consortium is an MA-based 501(c)(3) non-profit led by academics and researchers working in space-related fields which organizes a series of space education & outreach initiatives, including Massachusetts Space Week and The Space Consortium (SC) Space Days, to help democratize space knowledge and connect MA-based space experts and enthusiasts with each other and with the public. Supported by the Massachusetts Space Grant, Massachusetts Space Week and The SC Space Days stand as testaments to grassroots collaboration & community effort among space experts across the state, aiming to make space science accessible to all.Questions about this event? contact@spaceconsortium.org

Join the MIT Symphony Orchestra for their second concert of the spring semester!April 25, 2025 8:00pm | Kresge AuditoriumRepertoireSymphony No. 1 'A Sea Symphony', Ralp Vaughan WilliamsConcerto Competition Winner TBDAdam Boyles, ConductorIn an exciting collaboration, the MIT Concert Choir, Chamber Chorus, and Symphony Orchestra combine to present the Symphony no. 1, ‘A Sea Symphony’, of the great English composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams. Using the poetry of Walt Whitman, the symphony is a majestic and passionate paean to the vastness of the sea in ways literal and symbolic. The winner(s) of the 2025 Concerto Competition will also perform on the first act of this program.View the LivestreamAbout the MIT Symphony OrchestraThe central mission of the MIT Symphony Orchestra is the cultural enhancement of education at MIT by promoting music performance at the highest level of artistic excellence among MIT students, by nurturing new works and young artists, by developing and sustaining the widest possible audience. The orchestra’s repertoire consists of works from the entire symphonic canon, spanning works of the early Baroque era to contemporary compositions, and including music for film and theatre.Compositions by MIT faculty are also part of MITSO’s repertoire. The orchestra recently recorded Berlioz’ Symphonie fantastique, and has participated in masterclasses with Gustavo Dudamel, Sir Roger Norrington, and Nicholas McGegan. Frequent collaborations with other ensembles such as the MIT Concert Choir, the theater program, with members of the faculty and performances by MITSOlite, a chamber orchestra comprised of MITSO members, are also part of MITSO’s activities.The students in the MIT Symphony Orchestra come from a variety of fields including: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Biology, Mathematics, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Nuclear Science and Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Management, Architecture, and Materials Science & Engineering.This project is presented as part of Artfinity, an Institute-sponsored event celebrating creativity and community at MIT. Artfinity is organized by the Office of the Arts.