REX

Residential Exploration, or REX, is when freshmen decide which dorm they would like to live in during their career at MIT.

For 2012, REX will be held from Saturday, August 25th - Wednesday, August 29th. Keep an eye on the 2016 Orientation Website for more information about 2012!

PDF of events New House is hosting for 2012
Saturday | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday

Saturday, August 25th

Time Event Location Description
4:00 – 6:15 PM Cuisinez avec La Maison Française! New House 6, 5th Floor Kitchens Help La Maison Française prepare a scrumptious meal from scratch. Faites bouillir, coupez, faites sauter, and immersion blend with us. Stick around until dinnertime, quand nous mangerons. No kitchen experience required!
6 – 8 PM Cookie Concoctions New House 4, 1st Floor Kitchens Need to fulfill that desire to NOM? Wanna experiment with an alternative medium? Come chill with us in the NH4 kitchens and create beautiful works of cookie art. Or just come to eat. That’s cool, too.
6:15 – 7 PM Dîner à La Maison Française New House 6, 5th Floor Kitchens Come eat a home-cooked dinner on la maison! Now Zagat rated...
6:59 – 8:27 PM Fun with Origami!! New House 3, 5th Floor Lounge Always wanted to fold a crane? Or maybe a stellated icosahedron or a 60-piece buckminsterfullerene? Come learn to fold something, whether you somehow don't know how to fold a paper airplane (read: had no childhood) or are looking to make and/or contribute to some complicated polyhedra. And by polyhedra we mean pretty modular star-balls and the like.
9 – 11 PM Fudgeoning New House 6, 5th Floor Kitchens Need a sugar rush to keep you awake all night? Come and eat through our piles of fudge!

Sunday, August 26th

Time Event Location Description
11 AM – 1 PM Crêpefête New House 6, 5th Floor Kitchen Feeling hungry for some delicious French food? Look no further. La Maison Francaise has crepes; so many crepes, in fact, that we can't eat them all ourselves. Come join us for some delicious homemade crepes and yummy toppings, just in time for lunch!
1 – 3 PM Epic Art Time New House 5, 2nd Floor Lounge You have an imagination! We have polymer clay! LET’S DO THIS!
1 – 3 PM BUBBLES! Grass outside New House 6 Have you ever made a bubble with your hands? How about a giant one? Now you have no excuses, come learn how with German House!
1:30 – 3:30 PM Telephone Pictionary at French House New House 6, 5th Floor Kitchens Calling all hilariously terrible artists… ;)
4:00 – 6:15 PM Cuisinez avec La Maison Française! New House 6, 5th Floor Kitchens Help La Maison Française prepare a scrumptious meal from scratch. Faites bouillir, coupez, faites sauter, and immersion blend with us. Stick around until dinnertime, quand nous mangerons. No kitchen experience required!
6:15 – 7 PM Dîner à La Maison Française New House 6, 5th Floor Kitchens Come eat a home-cooked dinner on la maison! Now Zagat rated...
8 PM – 2 AM Game Night with German House New House 6, 2nd Floor Lounge This ain’t your grandma’s game night, and there will be snacks! Warning: some German Housers may be incredibly competitive Uno players.
9 – 11 PM Disney Sing-A-Long New House 4, 5th Floor Lounge You watch those movies just so you can sing along. So skip the movies and just sing the songs with us! No musical ability required.
10 PM – 1 AM Epic Video Game Time New House 5, 2nd Floor Lounge Will you succumb to Kirby's vortex mouth or get rolled into a katamari??? ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE.
11:30 PM – 1:30 AM Late Night SMASH New House 4, 5th Floor Lounge Anyone longing for a WOMBO COMBO?! Stop by NH4 5th floor to pig out on finger foods and all the Smash Bros you could ever want.

Monday, August 27th

Time Event Location Description
1 – 3 AM Late-night Breakfast New House 2, 1st Floor Kitchens Just finished partying? Stop by House 2 and grab some early morning breakfast before heading to sleep (if you even plan on sleeping). Pancakes, waffles, fruit, bacon, sausage...we’ve got it and you know you want it!
8 – 10 AM Breakfast New House Arcade Just waking up/heading to sleep? Craving delicious smoothies and pancakes? Not enough bacon in your diet? The awesome residents of New House will be serving up breakfast, so come get some!
4 – 5:30 PM Taste of New House New House Arcade Interested in seeing where some of the coolest people at MIT live? Want to know how we have epic food without a dining plan? Come to the Taste of New House and sample the culinary expertise of the New House Residents from every corner of the world (except Antarctica).
4:00 – 5:30 PM Smoothigami New House 4, 1st Floor Kitchens Lions and tigers and smoothies, oh my! Come relax with NH4 and show off your origami skillz while sipping on smoothies. Fun is mandatory, skillz are optional.
7 – 9 PM Late Evening BBQ’n with House 2 New House Courtyard The night is so very young, you’re hungry, you wanna meet some cool MIT people and play some fun games. House 2’s got the burgers, hot dogs, some fun desserts, drinks, and games. Come enjoy it all with us in the New House Courtyard with a beautiful view of the Charles River!
7 PM - Midnight TV Binge New House 6, 2nd Floor Lounge We'll have seasons and seasons of German Housers' favorite TV series. Come watch way too many episodes before you get distracted by PSETS!
7:33 – 8:27 PM Late Evening BBQ’n with House 2 New House Courtyard S’moresssssssss (please come and help us eat our marshmallows and chocolate)
8 – 10 PM Epic Meal Time New House 5, 2nd Floor Lounge FOOD. LOTS OF IT. PROBABLY TOO MUCH. THIS IS NOT A SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE.
10 PM – 1 AM Epic Movie Time New House 5, 2nd Floor Lounge GUYS, WE STILL HAVE TOO MUCH FOOD LEFT. EAT IT AND WATCH ANIME THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND, OKAY?
10 PM – 2 AM The Overwhelming Event 2 New House 6, 5th Floor Kitchens Part 2 of our overwhelming event – a continuation from CPW – we are STILL eating and playing games, so come join us and be overwhelmed by too much delicious food, and lots of board, card, and video games.

Tuesday, August 28th

Time Event Location Description
Midnight – 2 AM Midnight Brunch New House 6, 2nd Floor Lounge What makes a better late night snack than the breakfast food you’ll miss by oversleeping? Come enjoy all your breakfast favorites and chat with German House.
8 – 10 AM Breakfast New House Arcade Just waking up/heading to sleep? Craving delicious smoothies and pancakes? Not enough bacon in your diet? The awesome residents of New House will be serving up breakfast, so come get some!
12:30 – 6:30 PM One MARVELous Marathon! New House 2, 5th Floor Lounge Only because Marvel characters are awesome! We’ll be watching any of the following at any given time between 12:30pm and 6:30pm: Iron Man, Iron Man 2, The Incredible Hulk, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger
12:30 – 3:00 PM Balloon Dart Art New House 4, 1st Floor Kitchen Balloons + Darts = Art?? Express your creative side and get a bit of dart throwing target practice with NH4 while decorating an art canvas with paint-filled balloons. WARNING: AWESOMENESS MAY ENSUE.
1 – 3 PM Carne Asada New House Courtyard Join us in our traditional cookout. Eat carne asada and other Hispanic dishes with la familia. Learn about Spanish House and its residents cultures while enjoying a good meal.
1 – 3 PM Game of Thrones reading… in German New House 6, 2nd Floor Lounge You don't need to understand German to hear the incest! Or, if you're not interested in incest, come snack, hang out, and ask any questions you may have about MIT life.
3 – 6 PM Epic Karaoke Time New House 5, 2nd Floor Lounge Do you sing well? Do you sing not so well? Well, either way, we don't care! IT'S GONNA BE AN UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE FOR EVERYONE'S EARS! MWAHAHA!
8 – 10 PM Chocolate, need we say more? New House 6, 2nd Floor Lounge Haven’t had nearly enough free food yet? Of course you haven’t! Come overload yourself with chocolatey goodness. We’ll have real German chocolate and even a chocolate fountain!
8:59PM - Midnight Game Night New House 3, 5th Floor Lounge Dominion (Base, Intrigue, Seaside, Prosperity)•Settlers of Catan•Carcassone•Apples to Apples•Bananagrams•Set•Catchphrase•3D Twister•Innovation•Space Alert•Quiddler•Xactika•Five Crowns•Pentago•Blokus•Anomia•Bang•Rock Band!!For LoL, bring a laptop.

Wednesday, August 29th

Time Event Location Description
midnight - 1AM AfterTaste of New House New House Arcade Watch the Houses of New House battle it out at the ultimate baking contest. Leave with the taste of sweet goodness in your mouth!
8-10 AM Breakfast in the Arcade New House Arcade Just waking up/heading to sleep? Craving delicious smoothies and pancakes? Not enough bacon in your diet? The awesome residents of New House will be serving up breakfast, so come get some!
12 – 1:30 PM XKCD color in the comic New House 6, 2nd Floor Lounge Love reading xkcd? Read it with us and add your own color to the comics! Lots of colors!
6:15 – 7:30 PM Dinner with the Family Spanish House Dining Area (New House 3, 1st Floor) Come join us and become a part of our familia for dinner.
8:30 – 9:30 PM Tiempo de Bailar Spanish House Dining Area (New House 3, 1st Floor) What’s better than dancing on a Wednesday night? So, come show us your dance skills and learn some new ones. We’ll have Dancing Lessons from 7 to 8. Stay after the lessons for social dancing with the rest of the house.

 

 

 

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