The place to play table tennis in Boston is Boston Table Tennis Club. I usually go there once or twice a week unless I have absolutely no time that week (which sometimes happens). At Boston University you can play in the games room in the basement level of George Sherman Union. While GSU has the advantage of being closer to BU than the club, it is more expensive ($5 an hour per table, as opposed to $7 per day or $35 a month per person at BTTC). Also, the lighting and the table quality at the club are superior to those at GSU.
In this semester (Spring 2003) I played for the BU team at the Intercollegiate Table Tennis Tournament. BU took the fifth place out of seven participating teams, defeating Tufts University and UMass at Amherst, and losing to Harvard, MIT, Northeastern Univ., and Wellesley College. I might be misspelling the name of this last school; Wellesley is a college for women, but there was only one girl on their team.
Important! We need somebody to take my place in the BU team, since I will be graduating this spring. If you have some experience with table tennis, or if you know someone who does, e-mail me as soon as you can! Also, if you do not want to play in the team, but you are interested in starting a table tennis club at BU, you should drop me a line. BU does not have a ping-pong club yet, but the only thing we need to start one is enough people willing to join. So far I know five potential members, including myself, and the Physical Education department will not let us reserve their facilities unless there are more of us (probably 10-12 persons will suffice).