🎉 May 5, 2025: Community Social

Visit new and renovated spaces and celebrate our 2025 graduates! There will be music, art, sports, two DJs and of course – snacks. Food trucks and stations will provide cold drinks and sweet and savory treats. See the full list of programming below!

All MIT community members are invited. Free entry. No registration required.

This event is sponsored by the Office of the President.

Date: Monday, May 5
Time: 4:00–5:30 PM
Locations: Stratton Student Center (W20), Kresge Oval, Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building (W18), Rockwell Cage (W33), and duPont Athletic Center (W32)

🌳 Outdoor Activities

Kresge Oval

• Food & snacks:
  • Food trucks: Soft Serve Ice Cream, Whoopie Pies, Sopapillas, Snow Cones, Ice Cream Novelties, Dell's Lemonade
  • Restaurant Associates serving pretzels, donuts, cookies, beverages, and kosher snacks
  • Food carts: Popcorn and cotton candy

Linde Music Building Lawn

• Community Sing (MIT Concert Choir): 5:00–5:45 PM

Around Campus

• Self-Guided Public Art Tour (List Center)

🎶 Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building (W18)

• Thomas Tull Concert Hall:
  4pm: CMS Jazz Combo
  4:30pm: MITWE Flute Ensemble
  5pm: Mariachi Band
  5:15pm: MITWE Clarinet Ensemble
• Candy Shop

🏢 Stratton Student Center (W20)

Basement

• Latino Cultural Center

1st Floor

• DJ set by Philip Tan: 4:00–5:30 PM
• Campus Activities Complex (CAC) & Student Organizations Leadership and Engagement (SOLE)
• Juggling Club
• Hot dog samples & beverages, provided by Concord Market

2nd Floor

• Lemonade cart
• Button making (W20 Arts Studios)
• Graduate student artwork exhibit (Wiesner Gallery)
• The Hobby Shop, Student Events Board, and Technique

3rd Floor

• PKG Center, Class Councils & RingComm
• Wellbeing Lab:
  • Make your own chia pet
  • Coaster decorating
  • Student ambassador tours

4th Floor

• Student governing boards & UA Office Open House
• Popcorn cart
• Leadership building activities (SOLE)

Dance Rooms

• Latin Dance: 4:00–5:30 PM (W20-407)
• Ballroom Dance:
  • General: 4:00–5:30 PM (W20-491)
  • Newcomers Practice: 7:00–9:30 PM (W20-491)
• Imobilare: 7:00 PM (W20-407)

🏋️ duPont Athletic Center (W32) and Rockwell Cage (W33)

duPont Lobby & Sports Performance Center

• Healthy snacks & beverages, provided by Concord Market
• Sports Performance Center Open House
• Jump Plate Challenge: How high can you jump?

Rockwell Cage

• Zumba (DAPER): 4:00–4:45 PM
• DAPER (MIT's Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation)
• Backyard games (Cornhole, Spikeball, Can Jam)
• Learn to play Pickleball!
• Normatec Boots - leg compression boots! (walkway between W35 and W20)