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a house tour of mit sororities! by Emiko P. '25

meet aphi, axo, and theta

Welcome to a tour of three MIT sorority houses! Believe it or not, sorority life is a thriving community here at MIT, with about ⅓ of undergraduate women being affiliated to one of the six sororities.⁠01 the six sororities include: Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Phi, Delta Phi Epsilon, Kappa Alpha Theta, Pi Phi, and Sigma Kappa If you’re interested, I’ve also talked a bit in the past about what the sorority recruitment and experience is like, which you can read here.

Because a lot of us spend so much time hanging out at our respective sorority houses, I was thinking that I’d take you all on a tour of a few of them!

Alpha Phi

We’re going to start our tour at Alpha Phi, which has been my own personal home for the past three years. Our tour guide, Maddie L. ‘26, is a junior who also happens to be my little, and she’s going to show us around the house.

Tall brownstone in Boston.
hello, aphi!
Girl opening door of house.
maddie is going to show us around
Girl playing piano in brightly lit lounging area.
first up is the parlor! maddie plays some piano for us while we take a look around.
Girl standing by fireplace and pretending to throw in a log.
maddie throws a log into the fire to keep us warm
Girl smiling in a dining room sitting on a chair.
aphi's dining room!
Girl getting her haircut in the dining room.
i took this pic a few hours after the tour but here's the dining room doubling as a salon?!?
Girl reading a book in an armchair with books behind her.
we go up the stairs to check out the library...
... and the chapter room. this is where weekly meetings with all of our members are held!
Girl standing on a set of stairs.
then we head up another flight of stairs. there's five floors in aphi, so maddie and i are kinda out of breath.
Girl posing on bed next to some posters.
welcome to maddie's room! she lives in a double, which is pretty common for aphis in the house. scroll down to the next set of pics for the rest of the tour!
Girl smiling on a workout bike.
next up is the gym, featuring a bunch of yoga mats, a bike, and some weights
Girl on a roof on a sun chair.
we head all the way to top floor of aphi and go out to the roof!! i've been up here for chacuterie boards with my famline, birthday parties, and reading in the sun.
Girl pointing at freshly made chicken in the kitchen.
we then go alllll the way back down to the basement to our kitchen. the chef was making chicken alfredo for dinner tonight!
Girl pointing at TV on a couch.
our final stop is the TV room, where maddie and i usually watch movies together and sing obnoxiously loud karaoke
Girl pointing up at A Phi sign.
thanks for visiting aphi! let's go across the road to axo next :)

Aphi House Quick Facts

  • House nickname: Phi Hive
  • Location: off campus (Back Bay)
  • Inhabitants: 60
  • Floors: 5
  • Singles: 1
  • Doubles: 9
  • Triples: 11
  • Quads: 2
  • Kitchens: 1

Alpha Chi Omega

Right across the street from Aphi is AXO, so let’s head over there and meet up with our next tour guide: Natalie B. ‘25!! Natalie is every parent’s dream: a pre-med and a computer science major and an entrepreneur.⁠02 go buy her crocheted whales RIGHT NOW Let’s go on in!

 

Boston brownstone with tree.
hellooo, axo!
Girl opening up door to her apartment.
nat is here to show us around!
Girl holding a Nintendo Switch in front of a couch.
first let's take a look at the blue room: home of the house's switch, a TV, and a bunch of games. sometimes we have our soccer hangouts here!
Girl posing next to two couches and a fireplace.
next up is this lounge space on the first floor. i think the mantle above the fireplace is so pretty.
Girl sitting in dining room chair.
the dining room!
Girl holding huge box of Oreos.
we head on over to the kitchen, where nat randomly whips out this massive box of oreos supplied by the house
Girl wearing a bike helmet surrounded by a bunch of bikes.
nat shows us the bike the room. people in axo usually either bike, scooter, or take the bus to get to campus. scroll down to the next set of pics for the rest of the tour!
Girl holding blueberry plushie amidst books and couches.
we then check out the library, where nat shows me this ginormous stuffed blueberry won at six flags.
A heart made of hands showing a house out a window.
you can see the aphi house from the library window!!
Set of beautiful dark brown wood stairs.
we then go up the stairs to nat's room
Girl pointing at a sign saying
welcome to the room of shreya and her goons
Girl smiling in bunk bed.
this is nat's room, where she lives in a triple! thanks for showing us around axo :) let's go visit the last house!

AXO House Quick Facts

  • House nickname: The Ohm
  • Location: off campus (Back Bay)
  • Inhabitants: 25
  • Floors: 4
  • Singles: 5
  • Doubles: 3
  • Triples: 2
  • Quads: 2
  • Kitchens: 1

Kappa Alpha Theta

Now that we’ve finished up touring houses on the Boston side, it’s time to cross the bridge and head to campus to visit our final house: Theta! Here to show us around is our next tour guide and good friend: Nikki E. ‘25.

Tall brick building with the letters of Kappa Alpha Theta outside.
hi, theta!
Girl waving at the front door.
nikki's here to show us around!
Girl posing in front of her bed.
first up is nikki's room, which is a single! theta actually has 26 singles, so this is pretty common.
Desk and a window overlooking football field.
you can see the football and field hockey fields from her window!
Girl in a kitchen using a pan as a weapon.
the next stop is one of theta's five kitchens, where nikki shows us how to properly use a pan
Girl reading a big textbook at a long table in a library.
we then head over to the library to brush up on some organic chemistry. scroll down to the next set of pics to continue the tour!
Girl working at a desk in a conference room.
we walk past one of theta's two conference rooms...
Girl using an elliptical.
... on our way to the gym. nikki gets a quick workout in on the elliptical.
Girl sitting inside a laundry machine.
after our workout, we stop by the laundry room, and we wait around for a few minutes while nikki hunts for her missing socks.
Girl laying out in bed with a comfy blanket.
our final stop is kristen's room, where we say hi before ending the tour. thanks for visiting theta!

Theta House Quick Facts

  • House nickname: Mama Green
  • Location: on campus
  • Inhabitants: 40
  • Floors: 4
  • Singles: 26
  • Doubles: 7
  • Kitchens: 5

I hope you enjoyed this tour of a few of our sorority houses here at MIT. Thanks for coming along!

  1. the six sororities include: Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Phi, Delta Phi Epsilon, Kappa Alpha Theta, Pi Phi, and Sigma Kappa⁠ ↑
  2. go buy her crocheted whales RIGHT NOW⁠ ↑