CPW 2012
CPW (short for "Campus Preview Weekend") is a great opportunity to come to campus and see a bit what life at MIT is like. It's an action-packed weekend filled with events and projects put together by all the academic departments, clubs, and living groups across campus. Prefrosh are hosted with current students and get to experience living in an actual MIT living group.
At East Campus, we have tons of projects and events going on all the time. Stop by the courtyard to see all the exciting things we're doing, grab a burger (we have veggie burgers too!), dye your hair, take a tour, and relax.
Here's our schedule for CPW 2012. Most events take place in the EC Courtyard (between buildings 62 and 64) or in Talbot lounge (a big room on one side of the courtyard in building 62).
(You can also see the REX 2011 schedule.)
| Thursday, 4/19 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Event | Description | Location |
| 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Courtyard Grilling | Finally got here? Suddenly finding yourself ravenously hungry? Looking for a way to both stuff your face and mingle with the other newly-arrived pre-frosh? Come by, eat, and meet East Campus. | EC Courtyard (between 62 and 64) |
| 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Power Tools Seminar | Never used a drill before? Come learn from the best! We're building some folding ladders, among other things. Come meet people and make something cool! | EC Talbot Lounge (62) |
| 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM | Bread and Chocolate | So, we have a friend named Aina. She's from Catalonia. She is picky about her food and eats nice things. She wants to share those things with you. The name describes it all (and trust me, its really good). | EC Courtyard (between 62 and 64) |
| 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM | Homestead Crafts | Interested in enjoying some down-to-earth crafts (accompanied by power tools)? Want to make banjos, rollerskates, quilting, rope corsets, or balloon animals? Come on by to East Campus and see why we don't have nice things (Spoiler: making them is cheaper). | EC Talbot Lounge (62) |
| 6:30 PM - 8:25 PM | Pre-Welcome Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Party! | Enjoy free nitrogen ice cream! In it's 13th year, CryoFAC is run by the residents of East Campus Second West (aka Putz), and features fearless undergrads clad in yellow rainslickers making inventive flavors of liquid nitrogen ice cream for all prefrosh. | Johnson Athletics Center (W34), Overhang; Rain Location: Zesiger Center (W35), Lobby. |
| 9:00 PM - 11:30 PM | Soldering Seminar | You've made it through your first day at MIT and now its time try your hand at a trick of the MIT trade: soldering. Come learn or practice soldering by creating laser tag guns out of (nearly) raw materials. | EC Talbot Lounge (62) |
| 10:00 PM - 11:30 PM | Miss Ugly Pageant | Come witness East Campus's annual Miss Ugly beauty pageant featuring attractive people dressed up in the ugliest of fashions and witty celebrity judges. | EC Talbot Lounge (62) |
| 11:30 PM - 1:00 AM | EC Iron Chef | Does your team have what it takes to create a gourmet meal in under one hour? The answer is yes; we're giving you the ingredients and the kitchen. | EC Talbot Lounge (62) |
| Friday, 4/20 | |||
| 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Cruft smashing | Is the stress of the college process still welled up inside of you? Worried that you won't be able to enjoy CPW with that weight on your shoulders? Get rid of that tension with some good old-fashioned destruction. With a sledgehammer. | EC Courtyard (between 62 and 64) |
| 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM | I Could Eat a Cow | By our count, there are twenty two distinct cuts of meat in a cow. We have all of them. Served throughout the day, along with burgers, dogs, and veggie pucks. | EC Courtyard (between 62 and 64) |
| 3:00 PM - 8:30 PM | Amish Construction | Help us build a barn the righteous way — without electricity. Our resident Mennonite will educate you in the ways of his people. This guy is totally legit — he read a book and everything. | EC Courtyard (between 62 and 64) |
| 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM | PE Class | Been eating too many burgers? Feeling sluggish? Then prepare to be educated physically. We're holding a dodgeball tournament, and we bought one of those giant parachute things. No jogging required. | EC Courtyard (between 62 and 64) |
| 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Hair Dyeing | It takes a special kind of person to pull off the full rainbow, but I can tell that you, sir/madame, are that kind of person. Remember: regret nothing. | EC Talbot Lounge (62) |
| 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM | CryoFAC | Didn't get LN2 ice cream at the kickoff? Or did that one taste leave you craving more? Either way, come to EC for some of that legendarily smooth liquid nitrogen ice cream at one of our Friday Afternoon Clubs. | EC Courtyard (between 62 and 64) |
| 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM | Munchkins with Munchkins | Munchkins is a card game. Munchkins are a kind of donut. Come play/eat Munchkins. | EC Talbot Lounge (62) |
| 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM | The Tasty Set Is Closed Under The Operator Combine | Chocolate syrup, sour patch kids, and a lemon. Tasty? You decide! With a wide array of ingredients available to choose from, the only limiting factor is your imagination! Note: As always, East Campus will make you eat your mistakes. | EC Talbot Lounge (62) |
| Saturday, 4/21 | |||
| 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Barn Raising | The homestead needs able bodied prefrosh to help raise the barn we've been building. Come to the courtyard and pitch in! Barn Razing to follow. | EC Courtyard (between 62 and 64) |
| 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Courtyard Grilling | Come eat! The grills will be hot throughout the day. | EC Courtyard (between 62 and 64) |
| 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Hair Dyeing | It takes a special kind of person to pull off the full rainbow, but I can tell that you, sir/madame, are that kind of person. Remember: regret nothing. | EC Talbot Lounge (62) |
| 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Boffer Construction | Help defend the homestead from ruffians by forging a sword out of elemental foam and duct tape. Training session to follow. | EC Talbot Lounge (62) |
| 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | East Side Water Wars | Fight in the long-raging battle between East Campus and Senior Haus! Whose side will you take? | Between EC (62/64) and SH (E2) |
| 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM | Epic Eastern Cuisine | Have you ever tried bacon sushi? What about ramen with duck egg? Come turn our semi-random list of ingredients into semi-plausible Asian dishes. | EC Talbot Lounge (62) |
| 10:00 PM - 2:30 AM | Butter Churning and Bread Baking | Self sufficiency is important on the East Campus Homestead. Come learn how to churn your own butter an bake your own bread. Show up an hour early to help make the dough for ~100 loaves of bread. | EC Talbot Lounge (62) |