The freshers guide · IE University
Everyone is selling every event like it is the only one. We picked the nights actually worth it, planned the days in between, and found you people before you even land.
We are students. We have done this exact week, and we make nothing off you. So instead of selling you everything, we fixed the three things that actually go wrong.
A hundred group chats, a thousand flyers, every event pitched like it is the one. All of them taking a cut.
One curated lineup. The handful of nights actually worth it. Go to these and you miss nothing.
The nights take care of themselves. It is the afternoons in a new city where you end up doing nothing.
A plan for every day in between. The spots that normally take people a year to find. They drop in the app.
Unless you cold-DM strangers all summer, day one starts alone. And the party starts day one.
Tell us your degree, your campus, and the day you arrive. Before you land, we put you in a group chat with people just like you.
The coloured nights each carry a talks. activation. The days in between get plans from us inside the app. Every night is signed up for in one tap.
Lineup can shift. Final times, tickets, and every in-app sign-up live inside talks. First Week Out is an independent student guide, powered by talks., in collaboration with Pandemonium.
Every time we take over an event, it gets its own colour and its own activation, running live from your phone. Here is what you are walking into. We are not telling you everything.
Opening night · @ Liberty
At midnight your phone lights up with a symbol. One other person in the room has the exact same one. Finding them is the whole game.
tap to join in the app before midnight to get pulled in
Midweek · @ Victoria
A card of missions only you can see. Talk to a stranger. Own the floor. Clear a line and the bar owes you a shot. Clear the whole thing and, well, you will see.
tap to join and your card unlocks at the door
The big one · @ Hipódromo
The biggest crowd of the week, and a booth with a lever. One pull each. Real prizes leave the building tonight, and a couple of them we are not printing on a website.
tap to join then find the booth to spin
One night only · @ Todos Santos
Three crews. A confessional booth in the back. No blurring, no reshoots, drama fully encouraged. If you signed the form, you are in the edit.
tap to join to put your name in for casting
Late week · @ Rubicon
Five photos each, disposable-camera filter baked in, no do-overs. Minutes later they are on every screen in the room. Try not to become the wallpaper.
tap to join and your camera loads with five
Anyone can point you at a club. The hard part is the afternoon in a city you do not know yet. So the days without an event get a plan too, dropped in the app the morning of. No colour, no booth, just the moves that usually take a year to find.
Each plan drops in the app the morning of. Exact spots stay off the internet on purpose.
We hand out merch at the booth on the activation nights. GTA-style tees, stickers, hats, fans. We cannot pour free drinks all week, so we bring the drip instead. It goes fast, so get there early.
Sign up in talks. before you fly: your degree, your campus, the day you arrive. Before day one you are in a group of five who match all three, first names on, because these are the people you will actually walk in with. The rest of talks. stays anonymous. This does not.
All twelve days live in one place inside talks. It is where you sign up, where the plans drop, where the photos land, and where the whole first week gets documented while it happens.
Sign up for any night. That tap is what pulls you into the activation.
One thing worth doing, every single day. Tap it, go.
Every symbol, spin, mission and photo from your week, collected as you go.
Your group chat, your campus, and everyone else out the same nights.
Download talks. and pick your nights. Get in early enough and you are in the pre-week online mixer too, meeting people before you even fly. Land already knowing where you are going and who with.
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