About Us
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Information for 1e residents about our hall
red = bathrooms
orange = EC's awesome trash room
yellow = the EC piano room, featuring a nifty piano and one (1) flame-spewing air conditioner
green = our awesome kitchen (which is also green in real life)
blue = designated public rec. spaces
purple = EC network room
pink star = defenestration zones
Rooms
(The) Doors
Bathrooms
Birthday Bunnies
Defenestration
Garbage
Hall Chairs
Hall Tutor
Food (where to keep it)
Floor
Murals
Computers
Lounges
Newspapers
Noise
Parties
Room Wars
Study breaks/Hall Feeds
Phones
Video Equipment
Vacuum Cleaners
Nostalgia
Each one should have a sink, a bed, a mattress, a dresser, a desk, a trash can, a wall lamp, a phone, a set of shelves, a chair and a french poodle. If your poodle is missing or something is broken, repair slips may be filled out and submitted at the front desk or on the EC website. Problems or questions, ask politely at the front desk.
It is crucial to have a door on your room. If you find that your door is missing, go to desk and ask for a replacement door. Alternately, you could call FIXIT (x3-4948) the campus fixing-things-that-are-broken hotline. If'n you lock yourself out of your room, go to the front desk and ask for a lockout key. Desk hours are, on a good day, 8am to 2am.
1E has five bathrooms. Five. Count them: one, two, three, four, five! Aww yeah, we rock! Anyway, two are in Walcott, one (big'un) in Bemis, and two in Goodale.
The bathroom in deep Walcott has two stalls and one shower and is multiple-occupancy. The one in near Walcott has one of each; it is also the designated handicapped bathroom. Bemis has two stalls and three showers. It is also a multiple-occupancy bathroom. The last two in Goodale are similar to Walcott, but are both designated single-occupancy. All 1E bathrooms are coed and this usually presents no problems.
Current Bathroom Policy: is to always knock before entering a single-occupancy bathroom. Responses to a knock are, "Occupied", which means "don't come in", "Come in", which means "come in", and "...", which means there's nobody in the bathroom. There, now, don't say we didn't tell you.
Sinks: To shut off the sink, turn the knobs just enough to stop the flow of water so as not to damage the delicate washers which daintily block the water flow. You do not have to force the knobs until they don't turn any more, then break them off and shove them into your eyes, that is, not unless you *really* want to.
Soap: There is soap or some sort of hand sanitizer in mostly all the bathrooms now, after a recent installation of soap dispensers by the Powers That Be. If you ask me, EAsT camPUS is getting entirely too good for your health.
Condoms: Our GRT is supposed to provide us with condoms. They are free and should be located in some of the bathrooms. There is usually a bit of a selection as far as colors and flavors go. For recommendations, please see the bulletin board in the Walcott lounge.
We elect/appoint Birthday Bunnies each year. The main job of the Birthday Bunnies is to hop into the kitchen, make a cake, and hop down the hall telling everyone it is your birthday and that they must come into the kitchen and sing to you because it is your birthday and, hell, free cake. The hopping is an optional and oft-forgotten aspect of Birthday Bunny-hood. Current Bunnies are Paul, Nathan, and Kelly. Email them and tell them when your birthday is.
Pronunciation: (")dE-"fe-n&-'strA-sh&n
Function: noun
Etymology: de- + Latin fenestra: window
Date: 1620
: a throwing of a person or thing out of a window.
First East Defenestration Window : Walcott Lounge Window.
Alternate Denfenesration Window : Goodale Kitchen Lounge Window
Garbage: (pronounced all French-like because our garbage actually smells like roses)
There are two trash chutes; one at each end of the hall. As a safety precaution they were constructed in such a way that, try as you might, you will not be able to accidentally stuff yourself head first down the chute. Upstairs, apparently, you can. We recycle, as should you, so look in the lounges for recycling bins.
Elected floor people who are supposed to know what is going on and go to all the HouseComm meetings. Current hall chairs are listed on the comms page.
Our graduate residence tutor is the lovely Mary Lee. She takes care of us when we have problems and makes it so hall feeds happen. She's new this year. She's working on her Ph.D. in biology.
We have three refrigerators/freezers, three stoves, two microwaves, a toaster oven, an invisible can opener, and two garbage disposals. The kitchen bitch makes sure that there are hall-bought bottles of dish soap and washing sponges for your use. Use, not abuse I said, why if I see anybody smoking those sponges again, I'll.... Anyways, there are also really nice cabinets that get allocated in a process known as (bumbumbumbum) Cabinet Wars!
- Some guidelines for using the kitchen:
- Thou Shalt Not Use Other People's Stuff Without Their Prior Consent.
- Thou Shalt Not Leave Dirty Dishes in the Sink (or leave clean dishes in the drainers) Longer Than is Reasonable.
- (If left too long, they're liable to be thrown away by our kitchen bitch!!)
- Thou Shalt Clean Up After Thyself.
We have an elected kitchen bitch who is, in fact, paid by the dorm to clean the kitchen, but it isn't the cleaner's job to clean more than an hour every day so by following a few simple guidelines the kitchen can be a fun place for everybody.
One of our refrigerators. However, don't leave stuff in the refrigerator/freezer longer than a month or two. Before you put anything in the refrigerator or freezer, put your initials or name on it and the date. Anything unmarked is fair game.
We have a disco floor. It has more tiles than John Travolta's floor. It lives in the Goodale lounge. It has 512 tiles. Each tile has 3 LED's inside. Each tile can be programmed to make 4096 colors. There are also pressure sensors. It took us a long time to make. You can see pictures of the construction effort and also pictures of the completed floor. If you have some time to download it, you can also see the AWESOME video Schuyler made here. The floor has served us well through many parties and also provides a cozy living space for our dear friend, Disco Stu. For more information, you can check out the floor's website.
We have an "anything goes" mural policy. The hall buys paint for people who want to paint murals on the institute-white walls of the hallway and you're free to paint. One request: if you feel that the mural is going to be offensive you should poll the hall and make your decision based on the results. It's a personal discretion kinda thing. You can see our current murals here.
Thanks to our frosh, we have an athena station in the Goodale lounge! Hoorah! Use it wisely and don't break it.
We do have a hall printer. Her name is ussy and you can print to her just like any other athena printer. The driver you should probably use is HP LaserJet 5Si/5Si MX PS. She prints on both sides of the page, if you like, and knows postscript. She's a very nice girl who turned up one day. We don't ask questions.
We have two. If you keep your bike there, strange things can happen to it. Feel free to study in the lounges; the Walcott lounge is a particularly popular spot for group sessions. The Goodale lounge, or the Joseph Graham, Jr. Memorial Lounge, attached to the kitchen, is a great place for birthday celebrations and exploring the ins and outs of Franzia. The floor of this lounge is the famed disco floor. Many many many many movies are watched in this lounge. A few of the '07s actually live there.
We get some. Like the Boston Globe and the Financial Times and the New York Times and maybe the Wall Street Journal or something. They are located just outside the Walcott door, I think. Or maybe at desk.
Make some. Be reasonable. Respect others. If you can't get to sleep, ask people to shut up. If they don't get quiet, violence is always the answer.
We have them, and we like them. Our parties are always good because we're awesome. It helps that we have a disco floor, but our parties were also good way back in the day before the floor. We usually have one or two parties in the Fall, and a St. Patrick's Day party and end of term, but our parties were also good way back in the day before the floor. We usually have one or two parties in the Fall, and a St. Patrick's Day party and end of term party in the Spring. We also tend to host dorm-wide parties, like the Bad Ideas Ball. We always register our parties. If you want to party, notify the hall of your intentions beforehand. If you want to have the hall host a party, bring it up at a hall meeting.
Yearly, we bicker over who gets what room. There is a lot of yelling which results in an overhaul of the system each year. Worry about it when it happens in April.
Every once in a while, we have free food and socialness on the hall. We also have breakfast and dinner every day during finals. Come and participate.
Your phone number is: 617/225-6XXX, where XXX is your room number plus the building code. The building code for Munroe is 0, Hayden is 15, Wood is 30, Walcott is 45, Bemis is 60 and Goodale is 75. So if you live in Walcott 114, your number is 114 + 45 = 159, or 617/225-6159. Within the 'Tvte, you only have to dial the last five digits. Outside calls require the digit "9" first and then a ten-digit number. When you get a phone call, on-campus has one ring, off-campus has a double ring. MIT phone books are distributed in October, and you can check the Boston white and yellow pages at the front desk. You can do call forwarding and other things; check the MIT phone book for details. As of 2005-06, they are changing the system so that we have to pay for our phone or something. It sounds complicated.
We have a tv, a vcr, a dvd player, and a surround-sound stereo system. It's not real secure, so if you see somebody wandering off with one of the devices, clobber them. We use this equipment a lot. Several members of the hall are working their way through the entire collection of movies at desk. You can keep track for yourself on the 1E Movie List, a site maintained by gelliott. Every room also has a cable port, which gets several channels.
For when your vacuum just becomes too dirty to handle. The hall has some broken ones, plus a brand spankin' new wet/dry vac. Ask a hall member for the super-secret treasure map which will lead you through terror and peril to the super-secret location of the new vacuum, which is in the corner of the Goodale lounge. SuckComm is responsible for changing the filters and keeping the vacuum generally in working condition.
Frosh, back in the day, everything and everyone were so much more h4rdk0r. 1e-web has kept records:
Residents 06-07
Residents 05-06
Class of 2005
Residents 04-05
Class of 2004
Residents 03-04
Please contact 1e-web@mit.edu with updates for this page.