[Back-to-School] Paddleboarding on the Mystic Lakes

Leaders
Lawrence Cen (Paddleboarding Leader)
WIMP
Rika Sugimoto Dimitrova
Program
Boating
Type
Paddleboarding
Trip date
Saturday, September 13th, 2025
Difficulty rating
Easy
Prerequisites
Ability to swim

Join us for a beginner-friendly morning paddle on the Mystic Lakes this Saturday! We will be meeting outside the Student Center to pick up the paddleboards at 8am and will be back on campus around 12pm. No prior paddleboarding experience is needed, but you must be able to swim.

The paddleboards must be dried before being returned to the MITOC office, so each participant will need to take their paddleboard home to dry after the trip and return it to the office during the week. The paddleboards must be returned to the MITOC office by Thursday evening so that they can be used for trips the following weekend.

  • Start location: MIT Student Center (W20)
  • Start time: ~8am
  • End time: ~12pm
  • Cost: $15 rental fee + small carpool contribution

As part of the back-to-school initiative, current MIT students will be prioritized for this trip. If you have your own car and are able to drive people, please update your profile to show this.

In the event of poor weather, a wind forecast over 10 knots, or a water quality advisory, this trip may be cancelled or rescheduled.

Preference is given to those originally on the cancelled trip last Sunday!

Lottery is closed, but if you have a car and are interested, you'll be guaranteed a spot! (regardless of student status)


Signup

Algorithm
first-come, first-serve
Maximum participants
3
Signups opened at
Sept. 11, 2025, 10:22 a.m.
Signups closed at
Sept. 12, 2025, noon
Notes
  1. Can you swim?
  2. If you have a car, how many passengers and paddleboards (dimensions: ~35”x19”x10”) could you transport?
  3. Are you a current MIT student?
  4. Are you excited about paddleboarding?
Signups for this trip are closed.