Fenway is a coed independent living group for MIT students. We're 20 or so men and women living in a Boston brownstone studying, playing, and plotting to take over the world.

Fenway has lots of social events throughout the semester, including 11pm Dessert Wednesdays, dances, themed parties, movie watchings, and game nights; while most of the house hangs out together and attends these events, there are no mandatory events. The only requirements for living here are that you pay rent, do a one hour per week house chore, and participate in workweeks in August and January. Everyone is equal here; there's no seniority and no initiation program.

About half the house lives in singles; the rest share doubles or triples. Rooming decisions are made at the end of each term at a house meeting. Things like having lived in a multiple person room, involvement in the Fenway community, helping out with the day to day workings of the house, doing a good job with house chores, and generally being a good Fenbeing, are taken into account when discussing room assignments.

We have a large, well-stocked kitchen that you're welcome to use. Every term we elect a steward, who is in charge of stocking the kitchen with staple foods. Milk, eggs, fresh organic fruits and vegetables, meat, chicken, and veggie burgers appear regularly in our Magic Fridge. Have a specific staple desire? Write it on the white board in the kitchen, and it will soon appear in the Magic Fridge! Food is included in rent, so you don't have to spend money during the semester if you don't want to.

What kind of people live at Fenway? The crazy kind! We've got people majoring in biology, electrical engineering, math, earth and planetary science, political science, and aero-astro. But most people in the house are also somehow affiliated with the arts. Who says you can't mix science and arts? We have people involved in the Shakespeare Ensemble, Musical Theatre Guild, and Gilbert and Sullivan Players; we have writers, painters, photographers, sculptors, fight choreographers, lighting designers, musicians, dancers, and more! We have a house piano and a house guitar. It's not uncommon that someone is swing dancing or contra dancing in our music room. When there's a theatrical production at MIT, we'll go out on a Friday or Saturday night to see it. And Sunday mornings we often go out for brunch in Chinatown.

We've got people from all around the country (California, Colorado, New York, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Washington State) and from way outside the country (England, France, Russia, Ukraine, Mexico). Although most of our residents are MIT undergraduates, we also collect a handful of graduate students, international visiting students, CME (Cambridge-MIT Exchange), or cross-registered students every semester. We're an eclectic bunch! Fenbeings are open and tolerant; this is a live-and-let-live house.

The house is a 20 minute walk from MIT's campus; MIT runs a free shuttle bus between 6 PM and 3 AM. There's also a city bus that stops near the house and goes to MIT (the #1 bus).

Living at Fenway House in the summer: we take summer boarders for June, July, and most of August. We give preference to MIT students, but occasionally students from other schools will spend the summer with us.