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Address: 253 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston East Saferide
Rides: 850.380.9696 / 617.262.5090
Saturday, September 5th
14:22Science Smorgasboard
Time, magic and electricity join forces at tEp! Come to see the Very Large Capacitor Array, pickles that tell time, nanotechnology and cryogenics in action!
15:22Spice Cream
Ever eaten ice cream and then inexplicably felt the need to eat more? Spice Cream is ice cream with a spicy twist--you have to eat more to cool off!
16:22Huge Fingerpainting
Relive your childhood! Wow... your childhood was big.
17:22Neutral Buoyancy
We have a tank of helium, a massive amount of candy and soda, and some pure will! Take a balloon and tie something to it. Watch it float up the center stairwell. WHEE!
18:22General Gauss's Chicken
Little known fact: Carl Friedrich Gauss was also a master Chinese chef. Sample General Gauss's chicken from a bunch of different Chinese restaurants--see if you can tell the difference! Other Chinese food and vegetarian options also available.
19:22BILAL!?!?!?!?!!?!!?
Bilal is infamous for taking anything and making it taste awesome, look awesome, smell awesome, feel awesome, and be awesome. Come ride off his 22 TeV of craziness and energy!
20:22More fun with LN2
TEPCo is the number one supplier of liquid nitrogen fun in the United States, easing your way into freezing.
21:22Ooblek
What would you do with 850lbs of a non-Newtonian fluid that is liquid at low shear and solid at high shear?
22:22Miracle fruit
Miraculous berry glycoproteins make the schnozberries taste like schnozberries. Come make vinegar taste like chocolate milk, and lemons taste like pop tarts.
23:22Layzor light show
tEp's world famous light show is cued to any music you can put in it, with 22 different lights duct taped to 22 different IP addresses. It's cooler than your mom's Windows Media Player visualizer!
0:22GLOWING HOT TUB
What's better than a hot tub? A glowing hot tub!
Sunday, September 6th
14:22Crepes and LN2 ice cream
The breakfast of people who don't eat breakfast until lunchtime.
15:22Karate in the mall
Learn how to protect yourself against attacking power-walking shoppers! Watch out for little dogs and jogging 20-somethings!
16:22Pirate battle with Pika
Why are pirates called pirates? Because they ARRRGGGHHH! Meet at tEp and join us in our vessels as we battle the pikans on the high seas!
15:22Mesmerized by dexterity
See feats of dashing, daring, dexterity. Definitely.
18:22Hair dying and tie dying
It's exactly what your mother told you not to do at college.
19:22Maggiano's Italian feast
Participate in the grand tEp tradition of trying to eat more Italian food than everyone else and weighing yourself after!
20:22Cannoli Hunting
Join us on an epic quest for the wild cannoli of the North End.
21:22USBDIY
We've got boxes of old electronics, soldering irons, 5V power supplies and YOU. Come make a cool USB powered anything!
22:22Carbonated Fruit
Pop! Bubble! Ever wish life were a little more carbonated? Come to tEp for that extra fizzle!
23:22USB-powered light show
Plug in that USB-anything and watch the lightshow get a little brighter.
Monday, September 7th
14:22Dim Sum
Meet at tEp for a lazy Monday afternoon dim sum.
15:22LN2, dry ice, helium!
We still have all states of matter in ready supply! (Bose-Einstein condensates and quark-gluon plasmas not included.)
16:22Dramatic Proof Reading
Mathematics is poetry. But is poetry mathematics? Probably not. But that doesn't stop us from trying.
17:22SET and GO
Are you READY to play?
18:22Extract your own DNA
DIY-DNA extraction! Bring: yourself, lots of spit. (But don't swallow.)
19:22Mexican Feast
Come taste the Mexican cuisine of our master chef, SeƱor Darwin.
20:22Lie-off
The bullshitter's olympics!
21:22AI v. Man Tournament
Are you ready to take on SkyNet? Battle tEp-brewed AI in our TRON lightcycle tournament played on the LED array!
22:22Program the LED Array!
Now that you're subservient to our mechanical masters, you too may program the LED array.
23:22Rock* light show
Still haven't seen the tEp lightshow? Now's your chance! TonEIT with live sounds - play it yourself!
Tuesday, September 8th
14:22Reg Day Feynman
A tEp tradition!
15:22Ditch Windows, install Linux!
Bring your laptop. Fight the man. Our emergency install CDs are on hand, and free software experts are standing by.
16:22Ditch Linux, break computers!
Bring your laptop. Fight all of course 6. Our emergency sledge hammer and breaking-stuff experts are standing by.
17:22Find stuff in Chinatown
Chinatown is full of pleasant and not-so-pleasant surprises. Find a two-foot-long dried squid and bring it home for others to smell!
18:22COOK WHAT YOU FOUND IN CHINATOWN
Now that you've seen the East, what better thing to do than COOK EVERYTHING YOU FOUND IN CHINATOWN? (Like the Singaporean subway, no durians. Bonus points for edibility.)
19:22BBQ on the roof
Rooftop food always tastes better.
20:22Movie on the roof
Did you know Free Willy was shot on the roof of tEp? On a projector screen, that is. Come watch an awesome movie on the roof with us!
22:22Hot tub
It's your last night night of freedom. Join in on the well-established tradition of the tEp Reg Day hot tub.
Wednesday, September 9th
17:22Cook haus food with us
Join Team Wednesday in their battle with boiling water, leafy vegetables, and molten cookies.
19:22Haus füd
Join the brothers for a tEp-cooked meal--every school night during term! If you didn't help us cook, please help us eat!
22:22Beatnik Dr. Seuss Cocoa
"Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much cocoa can twenty-two elephants drink?"
Thursday, September 10th
17:22Cook haus food with us
Team Thursday (aka House Feast): The Battle Presses On.
19:22Haus füd
Another school night! Another tEp-cooked meal!
22:22BOBA and bubbles
Be bonkers 'bout bodacious BOBA and bubbles, brought to you by tEp with blubbering brotherly love.
Friday, September 11th
22:22FOOD ORGY
Grapes, crepes, cheese, peas, spice, rice, cake, steak! All the food you could possibly want. The only rule: you can't feed yourself. So grab a friend and head to tEp!
Saturday, September 12th
19:22Hsin-Hsin and Brezhnev's
Chinatown's famous scallion pancakes! Learn what Soviet-style "slugs" and "worms" are for!
20:22CROCK
A comic-rock-opera put on by our alumxi each year. Come for the pun sequences, stay for the ice cream finale!
Sunday, September 13th
21:22tEp/PKT Water war
We'll drench the opposition until they see nothing but purple emissaries of watery death swarming like wasps under the black trees of night. As the yuppies of Comm Ave dream sweet dreams of Banana Republic's fall fashion line-up and sugar-free non-fat lattes, our war cries will rage into the night!
22:22tEp/PKT Cookies
Cookie Monster is a fictional Muppet character on the children's television show Sesame Street. He is best known for his voracious appetite and his famous eating phrases: "Me want cookie!", "Me eat cookie!", and "Om nom nom nom" (said through a mouthful of food).
Monday, September 14th
17:22More cooking!
Team Monday: Still Pressing.
19:22Haus Food
Eat Team Monday's classic Ninja-Turtle Chicken Wings!
22:22Cocoa
Cocoa @ tEp happens the first night of classes every week!