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Campus Preview Weekend 2013
Campus Preview Weekend (CPW) is when prefosh and their families come to MIT and explore student life. For more information, check out the CPW website!
2013 New House Events Doc Sorted By House
2013 New House Events Doc Sorted By Time
Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday
| Time |
Event |
Location |
Description |
| 5pm - 7pm |
Event Title Saving the World Step 1: Food and Enthusiasm |
iHouse, 1st floor lounge |
Join the International Development House (iHouse) as we figure out how to make the world a better place while enjoying home-cooked meals from around the world!!! |
| 6pm - 7pm |
Dinner with French House |
French House, House 6, 5th floor |
Dînez avec La Maison Française! Come have a delicious home-cooked meal with the residents of French House. Cooking starts at 4 if you want to cook with us! No cooking experience or French required. |
| 7pm - 8:30pm |
Dinner with German House |
New House 6, 1st floor lounge |
Come stuff yourselves with delicious German food until you burst! |
| 10pm - 1am |
Video Games Galore |
House 5, 2nd floor lounge |
Play video games while filling your insides with junk food and soda! We'll make sure you get the energy boost you need to survive the rest of CPW. |
| 10pm - 12am |
Powerpoint Karaoke |
House 4, 5th floor lounge |
Remember that one time you had that presentation due NEXT PERIOD and threw together random pictures on a PowerPoint and presented it to a room full of people?
Experience PowerPoint Karaoke, which requires presenters to think on their feet as they give a presentation they’ve never seen before. |
| 9:41pm - 11pm |
Baking, Origami, and Duct Tape Fun! |
New House 3 – 5th Floor Lounge |
We have lots of ingredients and paper! Come bake cookies and fold paper while they bake.
Learn to fold something, whether you somehow don't know how to fold a paper airplane or are looking to make and/or contribute to some complicated polyhedra. And by polyhedra we mean pretty modular star-balls and the like.
Or, you know, just come play with duct tape. If that's your thing |
| Time |
Event |
Location |
Description |
| 12am - 2am |
Midnight brunch and games |
New House 6, 2nd floor lounge |
Come visit German House to gorge on breakfast food and play some Cards Against Humanity, Settlers of Catan, and MORE! |
| 8am - 10am |
Breakfast of the Admitted |
New House Main Hallway |
Looking for breakfast or a bedtime snack? Craving delicious smoothies and waffles? Not enough bacon in your diet? The friendly residents of New House will be serving up breakfast, so come get some! |
| 2pm - 4pm |
Smothiegami |
House 4 Kitchens, 1st floor |
What happens when you mix smoothies and origami? You get…wet sticky paper. Luckily, we’re not doing that. We have state of the art cups that are specifically designed to keep smoothies out of your origami. |
| 3pm - 4:30pm |
Minority Men's Discussion |
New House 6 Lounge, 1st floor |
Ever wondered what it is like to be a minority in a top tier university? Well, we have the answers. Join the Brothers of Chocolate City as we discuss the experience of being a Minority in a top tier University. |
| 3:30pm - 5pm |
Bubbles and balloons |
Grass outside New House 6 |
German House has 1400 balloons and giant bubbles. What else do you need? Fine, we’ll feed you too. |
| 4pm - 6pm |
Soccer with La Casa |
MAC Court- Z Center |
Come join la familia for a pick-up game of indoor soccer. Show us skills and we’ll show you ours. |
| 4pm - 7pm |
Saving the World Step 2: Doing Something |
iHouse, House 1 & 3 Courtyard |
Prototyping and testing innovative solutions to problems around the world with the members of iHouse!!!!! |
| 4:30pm - 6pm |
Ice Cream and Desserts!!! (Pre-Taste of New House) |
New House Main Hallway |
You know what goes well with ice cream? Cupcakes! Cookies! Alllll the sugar! :D |
| 6pm - 8pm |
Bottomless Belly |
New House 2 Kitchens |
How much can you eat? Test your limits.Win a prize, if you have what it takes.
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| 6pm - 8pm |
Mangez comme les français (Eat like the French) |
French House, House 6, 5th floor |
Dînez au restaurant français! Come experience the finest dining west of Mass Ave. Cooking starts at 4 if you fancy yourself a chef (no cooking experience or French actually required). Bon appétit! |
| 6pm - 8pm |
The Roosevelt Fitzgerald Boyland III Challenge |
House 4, Fifth Floor Lounge |
Come and challenge our most deadly Super Smash Brothers player, Roosevelt Fitzgerald Boyland III (aka Trey) in mortal combat. Fight to the death, win eternal glory, or just watch and eat food. Cards Against Humanity, Settlers of Catan, and Oregon Trail will also be provided. |
| 8pm - 10pm |
Portal. Live. You Monster. |
House 5, Floors 1-4 |
Like portals? Miss the Companion Cube? Come be test subjects in our newly designed test chamber. Don't worry, we won't murder you. We just want to feed you cake. |
| 8:21pm - 12am |
Game Night |
New House 3 – 5th floor Lounge |
LoL•Dominion (Base, Intrigue, Seaside, Prosperity, Cornucopia)•Settlers of Catan•Apples to Apples•Ticket to Ride •Boggle•For Sale•Resistance•Wits and Wagers•Fairytale•Bananagrams•Catchphrase•3D Twister•Anomia•Rock Band•Nintendo 64 (Pokemon Puzzle League, Pokemon Stadium, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater) •Coach Ride to Devil’s Castle!! Plus: FRESH FRUIT to nom on! |
| 6:59 pm - last question answered |
Math/
Physics Lectures
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New House 3 – First Floor Kitchen |
Ever wondered about negative masses, the Dirac delta function, or just how your GPS works? Come learn about all this and more at New House, where our physics lovers will play with a magnetic linear accelerator and chat about Lagrangian Mechanics with you. Finish up your physics with an exciting surprise demo! |
| 8pm - 12am |
You Got Served!
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New House 2 floor 5 lounge |
So, do you think you can dance? Bust a move with some Dance Central and win some cool prizes.
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| Time |
Event |
Location |
Description |
| 12:00am - 2:30am |
Midnight Breakfast |
New House 2 Kitchens |
Waffles and Pancakes at midnight…absurd? We don’t think so. Come hang out with New House 2 and experience the real start of a CPW day. |
| 8:00 - 10:00AM |
Breakfast of the Admitted |
New House Main Hallway |
Looking for breakfast or a bedtime snack? Craving delicious smoothies and waffles? Not enough bacon in your diet? The friendly residents of New House will be serving up breakfast, so come get some! |
| 11am - 2pm |
Field Day and Nerf Gun War!!! |
New House Courtyards |
Like the one in elementary school, but run by MIT kids instead of parent volunteers. Tug-of-War, Three-Legged Races, a Nerf War, and more. Prizes available.
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| 11am - 1pm |
Pretzels and Pastries with French House |
French House, House 6, 5th floor |
The dough is ready! Your pretzel and pastry creations will be out of the oven in no time, just bring your creativity and appetite!
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| 12pm - 2pm |
Carne Asada |
courtyard b/w NH1 and NH3 |
Join Spanish House for our traditional Hispanic BBQ. Learn about our cultural house and fill up with our delicious beef and rice and beans. |
| 3pm - 6pm |
Youtube Karaoke |
House 5, 2nd floor lounge |
Think you can sing? Think you can't? It doesn't matter either way. Kick off the evening by letting the world hear your melodious (or discordant) voice! They won't know what hit them. |
| 4pm - 6pm |
Taste of New House |
New House Main Hallway |
Sick of burgers yet? Come try our delicious food, and see why 90% of us choose to forgo the dining plan. There’ll be sugar, spice, and everything nice. |
| 6pm - 10pm |
iLL ViBES |
New House 1, 3rd Floor (Chocolate City 3rd Floor Lounge) |
Come and see some of the best musicians, |
| 7:30pm - 9pm |
Cooking 101 |
House 4 Kitchens, 1st floor |
99.9% of our house is off the meal plan; come learn from the best. Vegan, vegetarian, and meat options all provided. Come hungry, leave happy |
| 8pm - 11pm |
Game Night with La Casa |
NH 3/Spanish house dining |
We’ve got Apples to Apples, Bananagrams, Taboo, Pictionary Man, Pandemic and lots more.
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| 8pm - 11pm |
Game Night with French House |
French House, House 6, 5th floor |
We like games. You like games. Come play games! Board games, card games, TextTwist. All of them are games. We have them. Milkshakes, smoothies, and cookies are not games. We have them anyway. |
| Time |
Event |
Location |
Description |
| 8:00 - 10:00AM |
Breakfast of the Admitted |
New House Main Hallway |
Looking for breakfast or a bedtime snack? Craving delicious smoothies and waffles? Not enough bacon in your diet? The friendly residents of New House will be serving up breakfast, so come get some! |
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