List of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Undergraduate Dormitories - East Campus Alumni Memorial Housing (Buildings 62 and 64)

East Campus Alumni Memorial Housing (Buildings 62 and 64)

Better known as East Campus or Fred the Dorm, the East Campus Alumni Memorial Houses located at 3 Ames Street, are an undergraduate dorm formed from six "houses" each named after an alumna/alumnus of MIT: Munroe, Hayden, Wood, Walcott, Bemis, and Goodale. The six "houses" are arranged in two long north-south parallels, east and west, of three houses each, and are connected by floor. There are 5 floors, plus a basement, in each parallel. The houses are architectural entities; the floors are social entities: once a student has got to her room, she can more easily walk to any other room on the floor than go up or down stairs to another floor. A student would typically think of herself as a resident of Fourth East (fourth floor, east parallel) rather than a resident of Bemis House. Floors with distinctive cultures often have additional names such as "Beast" (Second East), "Tetazoo" (Third East), "Slugfest" (Fourth East), "Florey" (Fifth East), "Putz" (Second West), or "41st West" (Fourth West).

The dorm celebrated its 80th anniversary in 2005. Because of the dorm's age, the 354 undergrads living there are allowed to paint and alter rooms and floor common spaces, up to the limits of what the Cambridge fire code will allow. Students frequently use technology to customize their rooms, building projects such as an Emergency Pizza Button to have Domino's deliver a cheese pizza, a disco dance floor, and an automatic door-unlocking system.

Notable alumni of East Campus include NASA astronaut Michael Fincke, Ahmed Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress and George Smoot, co-recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics.