CPW 2022

CPW is MIT's weekend for admitted students to explore MIT and decide if it is the place for them. During CPW, ET hosts events to meet the prefrosh and give them an idea of the ET culture. Come check us out!

Are you a down-to-earth person with a good sense of humor? Are you a fan of nerd culture (or eager to become one)? Want to become part of a tight-knit, supportive, intellectual community? If so, then you should definitely visit us!

Schedule

Unless stated otherwise, all events will take place at the ET house. A van will leave from Lobby 7 at the indicated times, and the events will start after the van arrives at the house. Look for a person holding a bright yellow sign and giant duck in Lobby 7, who will take you to our great white van with a cute duck sticker!

Vans to and from campus will exist upon request. There will also be nighttime vans to take people back to campus.

Thursday, April 7

Board Games + Snacks
11:00 in W20-491
Card games, speed games, word games, German-style games, cooperative games, secret-traitor games... there's something for everyone! And also snacks. Join us!

Number Puzzles & Bubbles
16:30 in Lobby 7
Sudoku, Kenken, Kakuro, Futoshiki, Nurikabe, Slitherlink, Dominosa, Nonogram, Shikaku... solve your favorite number/logic puzzles, and try some new ones. Meanwhile, blow bubbles! Or hang out and talk as we wait for our van in Lobby 7.

Pasta with All the Sauces
17:00 (Van from Lobby 7)
Pesto, marinara, and alfredo available to top an infinite amount of pasta. Sides of garlic bread and garden salad. Vegan options available.

Puzzle Hunt
20:00 (Van from Lobby 7)
Puzzles can be anything; you might not know the rules or structure, and it's never the same twice. Grab a pencil and some paper, join a team, and try to be the first to solve our Hunt.

Balloon Twisting
22:00 (Van from Lobby 7)
Ready to develop your clown skills? Come learn to twist balloons with us! Make a poodle, a tortoise bracelet, a sword, a flower, or whatever your heart desires!

Jprd + Grlld Chs
23:30 (Van from Lobby 7)
A fusion of the game shows Only Connect and Jeopardy. The game is played like a usual Jeopardy except every clue is now just the answer without its vowels. We'll also be eating grilled cheese.

Friday, April 8

Chess Variants & Word Games
16:30 in Lobby 7
Come play fun chess variants like Bughouse, Monster, and Suicide Bomber, or play word games like Boggle, Bananagrams, Paperback, and more! Make moves, make up words, and make friends as we wait for our van in Lobby 7.

Make Your Own Pizza
17:00 (Van from Lobby 7)
How many toppings can you put on a pizza? Come find out! Vegan options available.

Only Connect
19:00 (Van from Lobby 7)
What goes fourth in this sequence: 5 P in a N; 2 N in a D; 2.5 D in a Q; ______? In our spinoff of a British game show that revels in its perplexity, team up to find connections between seemingly unrelated trivia! Bonus points for obscurity and British accents.

Pipeline Pictionary
20:30 (Van from Lobby 7)
Act out a drawing based on acting based on a drawing...can you guess the original message after all these layers of indirection?

Silly Video Games + S'mores
22:30 (Van from Lobby 7)
Come play Regular Human Basketball, a totally regular game definitely about human basketball. Also, we have gooey marshmallowy chocolatety goodness!

Saturday, April 9

Boffer CTF
11:00 (Van from Lobby 7)
Defend your flag with one of our foam swords, engage in single combat with ET's best, or just toss a frisbee around - all in the lovely park across from ET.

Meet the ILGs!
15:00 in W20-308 (Coffeehouse Lounge)
Come for the board games and snacks, stay to meet current residents of MIT’s Independent Living Groups (ILGs)! Featuring students from ET, pika, Student House, Fenway House, and the Women’s Independent Living Group. Happy to talk about living off-campus, or anything really!

Mac & Cheese
19:30 (Van from Lobby 7)
Enjoy home-cooked mac&cheese with green beans, caprese salad, roasted chickpeas, and an absurd number of brownies. Vegan options available.

Games that Shouldn't Be Played That Way
21:30 (Van from Lobby 7)
Sometimes rules were meant to be broken. What if we played Battleship with humans on a Twister mat? What if we combined Bughouse with Dominion? Smash on a DDR pad?

Lightning Talks
23:30 (Van from Lobby 7)
Come learn about everything from special relativity to the history of Star Wars to how to tie your shoes faster in five minutes or less! You'll learn something new in a flash. Want to teach us something, too? Go for it! There will be cookies.

Getting to ET

The best way to get to our house is to meet one of us at Lobby 7 to catch our van!

You can also get to our house on the Cambridge West/Brookline Saferide. You’ll recognize us as the yellow house located right across the street from a park about 15 minutes into the route. The Saferide runs from 6PM to 2AM (3AM on Friday/Saturday). On campus, you can catch the Saferide at the turnaround behind the student center.

You can also email us to get a ride over: et-www@mit.edu. We're happy to pick you up anywhere! (Unless you happen to be in Kansas or Neverland or something.)