The Turnout at MIT's Time Traveler Convention

Centrally located on the MIT campus, the East Campus dormitory houses students with a reputation for turning out offbeat inventions, such as a person-sized hamster wheel and a roller coaster built from two-by-fours.
The East Campus dorm's peculiar reputation and the Time Traveler Convention's far out theme may explain why so many people made the effort to travel in driving rain to a two-hour event.
A fan of the Cat and Girl internet comic strip, which Dorai credits with giving him the idea for the convention, drove a band of jugglers up from the Yale University campus, in New Haven, Connecticut.
Others took Greyhound or Chinatown buses from New York.
"We thought it would be cool to be visited by ourselves from the future," said Shauna Anthony, who traveled from New York with fellow New School University graduate student Sara Moore.
The MIT convention was the second public attempt this year to draw time travelers to a specific place at a more-or-less specific time. In March, an Australian group called the Destination Day Bureau made its own shout-out to time travelers in Perth, Australia, by placing a welcome plaque in a public square. (Look up photos from MIT and Perth.)