rex calendar: saturday 8/23

Burton-Conner: Breakfast

Mikey likes it. And you will too, because it's free food.

Next House: Take a Tour and Transport Your...

Luggage! Friendly Nexties will help you move in and show you around our awesome dorm! Even if you're not temped here, stop by and see what Next is all about.

Random Hall: Make Your Own Doughnuts

Make your own custom fried models of our dorm.

Random Hall: Saturday Morning Cartoons

Friday night was great, but now you're awake, dehydrated, your eyes hurt, and you still haven't gone to sleep. Let's watch some cartoons.

Burton-Conner: Build Your Own Water Weapon

The Annual East vs. West Water War is quickly approaching. Why be the standard water balloon thrower when you can aspire to more elaborate feats of engineering?

East Campus: Lifestyles of the Poor and Unknown

It's like the tours of famous people's houses! Only without the famous people! Or the house; this is a dorm, for crying out loud!

East Campus: Woodn't you like to know what's happening in our courtyard?

Human hamster wheel. Mini-golf. Roller coaster. Really, why are you not there?

NW35: NW35 Tour Guides

Every hour, on the hour, a tour guide will be waiting for you at the student center (with a big sign that says NW35) to take you to NW35, the new dorm.

Senior House: BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON: BACON? BACON, BACON BACON! BACON. (BACON BACON.)

also: coffee.

New House: Tours and Cookie Decorating

Get a chance to decorate and eat cookies while exploring one of MIT's most culturally inclined dorms.

Random Hall: Roofdeck Boffing

Put down that video game controller and come to Random Hall to duke it out with foam swords on our roof deck arena. A hallowed Random Hall tradition.

East Campus: Get your Fattie On

Build up stores of fat before you're too busy and too poor to eat. We've got juicy burgers of the animal-product and plant-product varieties dripping with delicious lard, enough cheese to necessitate a triple-bypass surgery, and many, many more delicious things for your consumption. We also have EC residents, though consuming them will increase your risk of foodborne illness.

MacGregor House: Ultimate Frisbee Pick-Up Game

Feel like getting some physical fun in before homework steals your soul? Join Macgregor residents who love Ultimate as much as you do (or learn to play so you can enjoy it too). Refreshments will be provided for the winners. (Just kidding, everyone loves free food.)

Next House: Welcome BBQ

.....And the food begins. Come join us for a delicious meal and meet the residents of Next House! We will also have frisbees and bubbles-- what more could you ask for?

Random Hall: 15 Minute Sock Puppet Literary Classics

And you thought Wishbone was good...This'll knock your socks off.

Baker: Welcome BBQ

Baker House officially welcomes you to campus! Drop by our BBQ and start experiencing a wonderful phenomenon of MIT known as free food! We have hamburgers, hot dogs, veggie burgers, and more!

Burton-Conner: Welcome BBQ

Welcome to MIT! Come enjoy a good old-fashioned summertime barbeque, before summer really ends.

French House: Murder Mystery

O mon dieu! Someone has killed Monsieur L’Argent and it’s up to you to figure out who is le coupable. Murder mystery à La Maison Française!

Random Hall: OMGWTFBBQ

LOLMEETS4U!KKCUTHAR

East Campus: Electrical Engineering Seminar

Only about half of East Campus is course 6; the rest of us just do stuff like this for fun. Come learn some basic EE, build a circuit!

German House: Candlepin Bowling

A must-do before you graduate! Very similar to ten-pin bowling, this New England variation requires less strength but more skill to score. We’ll meet in the German House lounge (second floor of New House 6) at 2:00pm.

Next House: Pies and Other Things that Fly

Kites, Frisbees and, of course, Pie! Come for kite-making, play some Ultimate, and do some ballistic physics of your own (coughPIEFIGHTcough).

Senior House: Graffiti + Stencils

huge walls covered in white paper are waiting for you to make them beautiful. learn to make stencils and tag like a pro.

Simmons Hall: I'd Tie-Dye For You

It’s a tradition for Simmons to hold its annual underwear tie-dyeing extravaganza. Boxers or briefs? (Socks, too)

Random Hall: Cookie Cutters

C is for Cookie, B is for Brickstrap, and P is for Pliers.

Baker House: Dorm Tours and Smoothies

If you’re feeling particularly adventurous after freeing yourself of your luggage, our tour guides will take you on a deep and enlightening journey through Baker House and tell you about the ins and outs, traditions and unwritten laws!.

Burton-Conner: Ice Cream Social

Yum, ice cream.

East Campus: DYEing for a change

Tired of that dorky high school look? Get the dorky college look! We can dye your hair any (and every) color of the rainbow! Whether you're going for the give-your-parents-a-heart-attack chic, trying to scare away your new roommate, or love the temporary space beehive, we've got the 'do for you!

Senior House: Henna / Skin Dying

make pretty patterns on your skin. you hippie scum.

Random Hall: The Gathering

An epic card game, Random style.

East Campus: Mini Golf

Relax, and get your first experiences being incredibly competitive over funny games at MIT.

Senior House: How to have a Nervous Breakdown

*** this is a serious event!*** learn what to do when MIT goes wrong. where and how to get help, and how to deal.

French House: Cooking

Viens à La Maison Française and hang out, chat, chop, and sauté as we prepare one of our fantastic dinners, which will be followed by eating of said dinner. All skill levels sont bienvenues.

NW35: Chillaxing Food, Card games, Candy Poker, and Magic

Come enjoy some free food while you enjoy some games with fellow MITans at the new dorm. Whether you'd like to learn a new card game, play some poker, or just play a classic, join us. While you're here, meet a magician and see a few magic tricks!

Senior House: Bible Study

with two real, live Catholics! not your usual bible study.

Random Hall: Tea and Math

Warm bellies and the poetry of science.

Senior House: BBQ in the Courtyard

come eat it. meet residents, stuff face. run by DOOMcom residents. veggie options available!

French House: Dîner

Come see for yourself why everyone says French House has the best food on campus. Vegetarian options aussi.

Random Hall: TP Dodgeball

Like Dodge Phonebook, but better.

Senior House: Mask Making

hide your face, become fabulous. with glitter, feathers, duct tape, and more. primarily for use in a later event.

East Campus: Laser Graffiti

Don’t get laser in your eye! Come draw on our nearby neighbor, the Green building, with photons.

Baker House: Games Night

Come one and come all to our fun and amusing Games Night! We will have all sorts of board games, card games, DDR, you name it… just for your entertainment. Also a word of advice: start stocking up sleep for the big West Side Bash tomorrow...

East Campus: Pseudo-Vandalize the Infinite (freedom trail!)

Come lead your comrades to the other side of campus by leaving a trail of awesome down the Infinite Corridor. We'll start at 77 Mass Ave and work our way down the infinite, spreading the good news of the East Side. with rolls of fax paper and magic markers.

Senior House: Use your Mask

to do that thing. meet in the lobby.

Spanish House: "Helados y Loteria" (Ice Cream and Game Night)

Tired of playing the same old board games? Come join Spanish House as we host a night filled with sundaes and a couple of traditional Mexican board games. If this is not your thing, old time favorites such as Pictionary will also be available. Hope to see you there.

Senior House: Coffee and Cigarettes

watch the movie “Coffee and Cigarettes” while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.

Random Hall: D&D One-Shots

You are sitting in a room with a bunch of strange prefrosh and two GMs grinning at you. There are two exits. You choose a character from a pile of sheets. Your character is sitting in a rough-hewn stone room with a bunch of strangers dressed in medieval garb. You succeed at a listen check. You hear an ominous voice tell you to pick up a character sheet and roll an icosahedron. There are two exits.

Random Hall: Sci Fi Marathon

Time travel can be complicated. Very complicated.

Random Hall: RHOP

Why would anyone be up so late? To serve you pancakes, of course!

Random Hall: Talk to MegaHAL

Andrea wants to forsake all nonessential property and live for math and her friends, supported by her friends. In short, MegaHAL wants to talk to you.

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