CPW 2013
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 2013. 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 2012 schedule.)
| Thursday, 4/11 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Event | Description | Location |
| 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Hair Dyeing, Grilling, and Painting the Berlin Wall | Howdy Prefrosh. Welcome to MIT! How much lighter fluid do you want on your burger? Just say when. Burgers, veggie pucks, and hair dyeing all day every day in the courtyard. | EC Courtyard (between 62 and 64) |
| 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Milk Hero | It's like Guitar Hero, but instead of strumming frets you drink milk. Trust us, it's awesome. Also, burgers and chilling. | EC Talbot Lounge (62) |
| 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM | Cruft Smashing and Confusing Future Archaeologists | Here prefrosh, have a sledgehammer. Printer, meet sledgehammer. Also, we have some artifacts that need to get buried in the sandpit. These events are unrelated. Please do not bury printer shards in the sandpit. | EC Courtyard (between 62 and 64) |
| 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | Potluck at East Campus | Come eat delicious home-cooked dinner with us! | EC Talbot Lounge (62) |
| 6:30 PM - 8:25 PM | CryoFAC | Enjoy free nitrogen ice cream! In its 14th 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. | Outside of Johnson Track (W34) |
| 9:30 PM - 11:30 PM | Tesla Coils | Tesla coils are awesome. Come learn about them, tinker on them, and watch them sing with one of our resident experts. | EC Talbot Lounge (62) |
| 11:00 PM - 1:00 AM | Brain World Cup and Super Smash Bros | Come play a trivia challenge game based on an obscure Japanese reality TV show! Also, we'll be playing Super Smash Bros all night, and we don't mess around. | EC Talbot Lounge (62) |
| Friday, 4/12 | |||
| 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Hair Dyeing, Grilling, and Painting the Berlin Wall | 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! Come paint yourself and others. Grills are hot all day. | EC Courtyard (between 62 and 64) |
| 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Zombie Wars/Appreciating CPW Event Caps | It's like Assassins and Capture the Flag, but at the same time and with Nerf guns. | EC Courtyard (between 62 and 64) |
| 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Power Tools Seminar | Here's some tools. Here's some wood. Make a big thing. How, you ask? We'll show you how. | EC Courtyard (between 62 and 64) |
| 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 - 8:00 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 join us to learn (or practice) soldering by building electronic flutes. | EC Talbot Lounge (62) |
| Saturday, 4/13 | |||
| 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Hair Dyeing, Grilling, and Painting the Berlin Wall | 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! Come paint yourself and others. Grills are hot all day. | EC Courtyard (between 62 and 64) |
| 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Spoon Making and Reuse Instrument Construction | Meet nick. Nick made a yurt. Nick is carving spoons. It is a sight to behold. Meet robj. Robj will assist you in converting instruments of the laboratory variety into ones of the musical variety. Grilling and hair dyeing all day. | EC Courtyard (between 62 and 64) |
| 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | East Side Water Wars | Fight in the long-raging battle between East Campus and Senior Haus! Which side will you take? | Between East Campus (62/64) and Senior Haus (E2) |
| 2:30 PM - 4:00 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) |
| 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Make your own Companion Cube | 'This was a triumph,' you'll say. We'll be making our very own light-up LED Companion Cubes, and they'll be a huge success. | EC Talbot Lounge (62) |
| 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM | Adventure Tours | Go on an adventure in East Campus! | Meet in EC Talbot Lounge (62) |
| 11:00 PM - 1:00 AM | 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) |
| 12:01 AM - 1:30 AM | Archaeology | Ever wanted to be like Indiana Jones, but without all those evil Germans/Russians/Bishops? Uncover the ancient ruins hidden beneath the sands of East Campus! | EC Courtyard (between 62 and 64) |