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REX 2019
REX (short for "Residence Exploration") is a special and exciting tradition at MIT. With all of the dorms putting on tons of events highlighting their unique cultures and traditions, REX is a great time to explore all of the many opportunities that the MIT dormitory system has to offer, and for incoming students to find a place to call home.
At East Campus, we have tons of projects and events going on all the time. Stop by the courtyard to see all the exciting events and projects going on, grab a burger (we have veggie burgers too!), dye your hair, take a tour, and relax.
Here's our schedule for REX 2019. Most events take place in the EC Courtyard (between buildings 62 and 64) or in Talbot lounge (a big room on one side of the courtyard in building 62).
You can import the list of events to your calendar.
| Tuesday 08/20 | |||
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| Time | Event | Description | Location |
| all day | Grill, Chill, and Build | Come enjoy a burger, some construction, and friendship out in the trainyard of East Campus. | Courtyard |
| Wednesday 08/21 | |||
| Time | Event | Description | Location |
| all day | Grill, Chill, and Build | Enjoy a delicious burger while we teach you how to use power tools and help us build things! Featuring a ferris wheel, giant fort, train, friendship, and more! | Courtyard |
| Thursday 08/22 | |||
| Time | Event | Description | Location |
| all day | Grill, Chill, and Build | What could be better than burgers, construction, and friendship? We have it all! | Courtyard |
| 2-5PM | Monster Energy | Power up with free Monster Energy to give you the strength for helping build our construction projects! | Courtyard |
| Friday 08/23 | |||
| Time | Event | Description | Location |
| all day | Grill, Chill, and Build | Come to the East Campus trainyard for some grilling, construction (no experience required!), and friendsssss! | Courtyard |
| Saturday 08/24 | |||
| Time | Event | Description | Location |
| all day | Grill, Chill, and Build | Hey there! Come join us out in the trainyard of East Campus! Come enjoy a burger, some construction, and a nice chitchat. | Courtyard |
| 12-3PM | Hair Dying | Exercise your freedom of expression by dying your hair ALL OF THE COLORS. | Courtyard |
| 4-5PM | Power Tool Seminar | Crash course on power tool use and safety! People of any experience levels (or lack of) are all welcome! Safety glasses/PPE provided. tentative. just come to the courtyard and see what's up. | Courtyard |
| 8-9:30PM | Asian Style Shaved Ice | Shaved ice with asian style toppings (lychee, jelly, condensed milk, red bean, etc) | Talbot |
| 11-11:11PM | we're not here | Where’s “here” <thinking emoji>? | Courtyard |
| Sunday 08/25 | |||
| Time | Event | Description | Location |
| all day | Grill and Chill | Burgers and friends ALL DAY | Courtyard |
| 10AM-5PM | EC Dorm Tour | Do people live here? Find a friendly tour guide in Talbot for an East Campus dorm tour! Leaves approximately every half hour | Talbot |
| 12-1PM | Parents Brunch | Talk to East Campus residents about what we love about our home! Come with questions! | Talbot |
| 12-4PM | Grill, Chill, and Build | power tools! ladders! safety! no experience required, burgers provided | Courtyard |
| 12-3PM | Hair Dying | Hair is temporary, bleach is permanent, instagam likes are forever. | Courtyard |
| 3-4PM | Mozzarella Stick Stretching Contest | We stretch mozzarella sticks to see if anyone can beat the record of 42 inches | Talbot |
| 4-4:01PM | human hamster ball | Unfortunately CANCELLED. :-( | Courtyard |
| 4-5PM | Power Tool Seminar | Crash course on power tool use and safety! People of any experience levels (or lack of) are all welcome! Safety glasses/PPE provided. tentative. just come to the courtyard and see what's up. | Courtyard |
| 5-6PM | here, queer, and (not) ready to disappear | a discussion of queerness and other identities, and how they relate to who and where you live. handling developing your queer identity while being an MIT student. being queer and { POC, low-income, immigrant } etc and understanding identity as an intersection. resources in EC and elsewhere around campus for queer folk. and plenty of queer people to talk to also! | Talbot |
| 8PM-1AM | East Side Party | Come to the TRAINSSS East Side Party, where the beat of the bass never dies. Ride a ferris wheel, get space trained, and wrestle in substances never before wrestled in. And as you dance in the smoke, the interactive lights display, the thumping dreamscape of an unstoppable party, you too will taste the sweet nectar of freedom. | Courtyard |
| Monday 08/26 | |||
| Time | Event | Description | Location |
| all day | Grill and Chill | Burgers and friends ALL DAY | Courtyard |
| 10AM-5PM | EC Dorm Tour | Warning: Wild student-humans in their natural habitat - Do not feed! Find a friendly tour guide in Talbot for an East Campus dorm tour! Leaves approximately every half hour. | Talbot |
| 12-2PM | Crate Stacking | Come see how many upside-down plastic milk crates you can stack and then stand on the top. Don't lose your balance! Featuring free Yerba Mate drinks so that you can be fully caffeinated high up in the air. | Courtyard |
| 12-3PM | Hair Dying | What better way to appreciate the spirit of individualism and self-reliance than to get your hair dyed in ALL OF THE COLORS because you can and why not | Courtyard |
| 1-2PM | Yerba Mate Time | Stop by for free Yerba Mate drinks so that you can be caffeinated for crate stacking! | Courtyard |
| 1-2PM | Gays and Cats | Chill talk with pussies (maybe queers too) | Talbot |
| 2-4PM | how many chugs could a choo choo chug if a choo choo could chug chug | nerding out over various train and transit-themed books, movies, events, meme pages, and more. definitely not converting people to course 11. also includes a heated debate over how many chugs go before the "choo choo". 4? 3? 12? we shall see. | Talbot |
| 5-6PM | Fruit and popsicles | Let's eat some fruit so we don't get scurvy! Let's have some popsicles too. | Couryard |
| 6-9PM | Painting Murals on Stickmen | chill, paint, and talk with residents of first west | 1W |
| 7-8PM | Arguably (In)Correct Medleys | make really silly mashups of music, play some weird board game variants, and eat some questionable medleys of food (turmeric ice cream, Rocky road on lasagna, spinach in a taco shell) | Talbot |
| 7:30-8:30PM | RIOT | Do you refuse on principle to make peace with 'The Man'? Participate in EAsT camPUS's history of harmless yet unbounded angst by making impromptu speeches and picket signs in protest of the lack of grass in the EC Courtyard, the undeserved reputation of satanist cults, and the fluctuating price of eggs. Additional riot topics will be audience's choice. *Everyone is welcome to attend this warm EC introduction to the land of freedom of speech, creativity, and <redacted>. | Courtyard |
| 8-9PM | Nude Portraiture | A very wholesome celebration of art and the human form. We provide paper, charcoal, and models; attendees draw the models. (Pre/frosh allowed to model if they are >= 18 years old with verbal consent.) | Game Room (Walcott Basement) |
| 9-11PM | Boardgame night | Boardgame night served with snacks | Game Room |
| 9:30-10:30PM | WHEN WILL YOU LEARN | Just a long looping vine of the zoomed in Thomas the Tank Engine face yelling “WHEN WILL YOU LEARN THAT YOUR ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES." | Talbot |
| 11-11:11PM | where did we go? | Come join us in not-being-here. | Courtyard |
| Tuesday 08/27 | |||
| Time | Event | Description | Location |
| all day | Grill and Chill | Burgers and friends ALL DAY | Courtyard |
| 10AM-5PM | EC Dorm Tour | The real question is, what’re THOSE? Find a friendly tour guide in Talbot for an East Campus dorm tour! Leaves approximately every half hour. | Talbot |
| 11:30AM-1PM | Satisfaction Float | Come have a satisfying time floating around with us. | Courtyard |
| 12-3PM | Hair Dying | We've been coloring hair so long that our hands have literally turned into rainbows. Please advise. | Courtyard |
| 1-5PM | Rope Swing | Ropes and a swing!!! Will be going all afternoon. | Courtyard |
| 2:30-4PM | Cruft Smashing | Frosh smash cruft (old computer parts) with a sledgehammer in the courtyard. | Courtyard |
| 3-4PM | only connect | A British puzzle game show about finding connections between seemingly unrelated things. | Talbot |
| 5-6PM | Trader Jacks | Come barter for some yummy Trader Joe's snacks from your local Trader Jack! Free in exchange for an answer to a completely normal, noninvasive question. | Talbot |
| 6:30-7:15PM | Water Wars March | Come help us prepare for our imminent battle against West Campus! Come EARLY to help out before we march at 7pm. Remember: East Campus ALWAYS wins the water war. | Courtyard |
| 7:30-8:30PM | Fluffy Town | Come make a fun blanket fort on EC 3rd East (Tetazoo)! Will start right after the troops come home from the water war. | Talbot (to meet) |
| 8-9:30PM | smol desk concert | Open mic on the EC fort | Courtyard |
| 9:30-11PM | Coffee and Cigarettes | A screening of the 2003 comedy short film collected Coffee and Cigarettes, per EC's 4w hall tradition. Event will take place on EC 4th West. | 41W Blacklight Lounge |
| 10PM-12AM | Pinkies | Pinkies is the classic EC "diner." Come eat food with friends. | Talbot |
| Wednesday 08/28 | |||
| Time | Event | Description | Location |
| 10-11AM | Yoga on the Fort | Wear loose, comfortable clothing, and bring a yoga mat if you own one. | Fort |
| 11AM-3PM | Prop-Making Workshop | Come learn about the Spinning Arts club and make your own fire props! We'll be there through the early afternoon. Stop on by! | Talbot |
| 12-4PM | Grill and Chill | Burgers and friends | Courtyard |
| 12-3PM | Hair Dying | If you're worried about what your parents will think, natural colors such as leaf green, sky blue, and grape purple also available. | Courtyard |
| 3:30-5PM | inflato | Learn how to make nylon inflatables | Talbot |
| 4:30-5:30PM | Healthy Snacks and friends | Come talk to the native EAsT camPUSers, meet other prefrosh, and eat healthy snacks like fruits and vegetables. | Courtyard (on fort) |
| 5-6PM | Tea Time with Willy T | Cool off with refreshing iced tea and smooth jams while meeting other tea lovers! | Talbot |
| 5:30-6:30PM | adopt a suc-cute-lent | come say aloe and p(r)ick a baby succulent to make your new room unbe-leaf-ably plant-tastic! | Courtyard (on fort) |