Cocoa

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Every school night (Sunday-Thursday), promptly at 11 pm, one can hear the cacophonic calls of "Cocoa! Cocoa!" echo through East Campus. Or at least we hope you all can hear us. The idea is for everyone to take a break from Tooling, to come out and join their fellow slugs for a hot mug of cocoa (bring your own mug and spoons, we provide the rest) for a few minutes. Come on, join us and our chocolatey goodness. You know you want to.

The process of heating water for cocoa will be automated with the Cocoa Pot project.


Cocoa Pot

We plan to automate the heating of the Cocoa water every night. The cocoa pot will be controlled by a PIC that will also monitor temperature and water level and send data over the 4E Network. The server will calculate the heating time based on the water level and ensure that there is hot water for cocoa every school night.

Currently, the two Cocoa Chairs do it manually. Every school night.


Happy Cocoa

Whenever it is (approximately) a slug's birthday, the hall Baking Chairs bake a cake (or other extravagant dessert) to be served during nightly cocoa. On the night of a Happy Cocoa, the Cocoa Chairs scream "HAPPY COCOA!!!" while calling cocoa. It is hall tradition to scream the "Happy Birthday Song" as cacophonously as posssible rather than singing it. Those slugs whose birthdays are during times of no school may select an "unbirthday" to celebrate instead. See a schedule of whose Happy Cocoas are when.


Formal Cocoa

Traditionally held at the end of the semester, Formal Cocoa is a celebration of fine chocolates and the end of term. All attendees are required to dress up or dress down. Back in the day, it was tradition to attend formal movie night following Formal Cocoa. The celebrants would go watch a movie in a lecture hall while still dressed in their Formal Cocoa garb. Secret Anthony, a nondenominational Secret Santa, is usually held during the winter Formal Cocoa.


Special Cocoa

We are planning to start a new hall tradition of inviting faculty and staff members, as well as other notables, to cocoa. We hope Special Cocoa promotes closer interaction between students and faculty members. Below is a table of whom we have contacted and have accepted, their responses, and planned Special Cocoas, if any.

Accepted Invitation

Notable Invitee(s) Scheduled Cocoa Comments
Professor Jeremy Wolfe 02/21/06, 8 p.m. SUCCESS!!!
Harmonix Software Developers 02/27/06, 7 p.m. SUCCESS!!!
Dr. Geoffrey A. Landis and Dr. Mary A. Turzillo 03/07/06, 8 p.m. Mars. Extreme.
Dr. Robert Granetz Soon "candy, you say?"
Markos Hankin Pending ... Mark A. has further details...
Professor Joe Haldeman September 06? "I'd love to come, but will have to put it off till fall." (currently in Florida)

Declined Invitation

Notable Invitee(s) Date Contacted Comments
President Susan Hockfield January 06 Never!
Cory Doctorow 02/13/06 Regretfully declined and now residing in London.


Waiting for Response

Notable Invitee(s) Date Contacted


People we have invited for Cocoa and have not responded or have responded and will not be attending:

  • Susan Hockfield
  • StrongBad
  • Cory Doctorow
  • Eric Lander
  • Max Tegmark
  • Donald Sadoway
  • Noam Chomsky


To Be Invited

People we want to invite for Cocoa (feel free to invite any of these people and move them to the above table):

  • Chuck Vest
  • Larry Summers
  • Larry Benedict
  • Derek Walcott
  • Sheldon Glashow
  • Gerald Jay Sussman
  • Suzanne Flynn
  • John Kerry
  • Ted Kennedy
  • Junot Diaz
  • Alar Toomre


Please add anybody else to this list if you would like to invite them to Special Cocoa.

Interhall Cocoa

We have begun inviting other halls of East Campus (or maybe even other dorms?) to Cocoa, every Thursday night at 11 p.m.

Hall Scheduled Cocoa
Third West 02/09/06: Success!
Fifth East 02/16/06: Massive Turnout!
Second East 02/23/06: Success!
First East 03/02/06: pending...

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