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

Thursday, April 11th

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

Friday, April 12th

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.
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 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! 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.

Saturday, April 13th

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.
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!
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.
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.

Sunday, April 14th

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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