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Connecting MIT graduate students with resources related to wellness -- including resources to keep you at your best physically, mentally, emotionally and financially.
06/01/2026
⚽🎉 World Cup Opening Match Watch Party
Kick off the World Cup with a grad student watch party! Free food and prizes for most team spirit -- how will you represent your team?
🗓️ Thursday, June 11 | 3:00–6:00 PM
📍 W20-307
🔗 Registration required: https://ow.ly/hlYr50Z4GKg
06/01/2026
☀️📚 Summer Registration Opens Today
Summer registration is now open. Make sure to register your thesis hours!
05/29/2026
🥘 End of Academic Year Paella
Celebrate the start of summer with paella + homemade Spanish dishes and get ready for the World Cup together.
🗓️ Sunday, Jun 7 | 1:30–4:30 PM
📍 Tang Hall BBQ Pits (550 Memorial Dr)
✅ Open to the whole MIT community
05/29/2026
🧑🏫📄 Faculty Job Search Series: Refining the Academic CV
How do you summarize your entire academic experience in just a few pages and what actually belongs on an academic CV?
CAPD will walk through the academic CV genre with examples, best practices, and plenty of time for Q&A.
🗓️ Tuesday, Jun 9 | 12:00–1:00 PM
📍 Virtual
🔗 Register/info: https://app.joinhandshake.com/events/1953122/share_preview
05/28/2026
🧑🏫💛 “I have yet to meet a professor that cares more for their students”
Shoutout to MIT Political Science Associate Professor Daniel “Danny” Hidalgo, honored as a “Committed to Caring” faculty member for graduate mentorship that pairs serious rigor with real human support, creating space for students to do ambitious work without going it alone.
🔗 Read the full story on MIT News: https://news.mit.edu/2026/committed-to-caring-daniel-hidalgo-0513
05/28/2026
🎓🎉 One MIT Commencement Day!
To all of our graduate students receiving degrees: CONGRATULATIONS. Your years of hard work, your determination, perseverance, and grace have paid off. Well done!! We are so excited to see you receive your hoods. 🦫 🤩 🧑🎓
All are welcome to watch the One MIT Commencement Ceremony, streaming live:
🔗 Watch here: https://ow.ly/4e5C50Z4Pcz
05/27/2026
🌍🩺 Global health research shaped by the legacy of conflict
MIT Spectrum highlights Odinaka Kingsley Eze, an MIT HEALS graduate fellow and HASTS PhD student, whose work to strengthen health systems is informed by lessons from the Nigerian Civil War and its lasting public health impacts.
🔗 Read the full story: https://betterworld.mit.edu/spectrum/issues/spring-2026/global-health-research-shaped-by-legacy-of-conflict/
Eze is partnering with the Association of Nigerian Physicians in the Americas (ANPA) and collaborators to build digital infrastructure, like electronic records and telemedicine, to help address gaps in care and support more resilient health systems.
05/27/2026
🌙✨ Eid Adha Mubarak ✨🌙
Wishing a peaceful and meaningful Eid Adha to all who observe. May the day bring you joy, generosity, and time with loved ones filled with gratitude, community, and care.
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05/26/2026
🩰✨ GSC: Sleeping Beauty (Boston Ballet)
Join the GSC for a trip to see Boston Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty at the Citizens Opera House.
🗓️ Saturday, June 6 | 7:30–10:30 PM
📍 Citizens Opera House
🔗 Tickets/info: https://cglink.me/2cy/r917332
✅ Only MIT students may purchase tickets (including for +1s)
05/25/2026
🌙🔧 MIT Museum After Dark Series (18+ | 6:00–9:00 PM)
Looking for an adults-only night out with science + creativity? After Dark is MIT Museum’s monthly after-hours event featuring demos, tastings, conversation, and hands-on tinkering plus live music, a cash bar, and bites for purchase.
📅 Thursday, June 11 | 6:00–9:00 PM, After Dark: Let’s Talk
📍 MIT Museum, 314 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142
🔗 Sign up: https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/mit-museum-after-dark
Travel back to a pivotal debate from 50 years ago that helped shape Kendall Square and then dive into interactive activities inspired by the joy (and occasional chaos) of conversation.
Featured activities include:
- Historian of science Luis Campos on the 1976 recombinant DNA lab controversy
- Guided timeline through the museum on meaningful conversations
- Test Debunkbot.com, a new MIT Museum installation exploring AI and conspiratorial thinking
- Build a “conversation kit” with prompts and tools for better dialogue
- Step into the “Agora” demo to draft/refine policy with multiple perspectives
- Mix an audio medley using real voices from debates on housing, gentrification, and more