Meet Gompei
This is the name of WPI's goat mascot.
Who is Gompei?
These are WPI's two school colors.
What are crimson and gray?
What is the triangular area joining Morgan Hall and Daniels Hall called?
What is the wedge?
In English, WPI's motto translates to this two-word phrase.
What is "Theory and Practice"?
This is the grassy, central gathering space on campus where the "Proud Goat" statue overlooks everything.
What is the Quad?
In what year was WPI founded?
What is 1865?
This is the city WPI calls home.
What is Worcester?
What is Morgan Dining Hall's other name?
What is DAKA?
This is the building that houses the makerspace where students go to build, prototype, and tinker with cool projects.
What is the Innovation Studio?
This building houses Campus Police, tucked away in the basement.
What is Founders Hall?
You can find a big bronze goat statue near this campus feature that overlooks it — a big grassy area in the middle of campus
What is the Quad?
This is what WPI students affectionately call themselves as a team/school nickname.
What are the Engineers?
A WPI term lasts approximately this many weeks.
What is seven weeks?
This is the term for the payment system students use to buy food, print stuff, and shop at the bookstore.
What are Goatbucks?
WPI's campus is famously hilly, this New England city it sits in is nicknamed the "Heart of the Commonwealth."
What is Worcester?
In the winter, the "Proud Goat" statue is sometimes dressed in one of these cozy items.
What is a sweater?
This holiday, celebrating a famous math constant, is a big deal every March 14th at WPI.
What is Pi Day?
A WPI alumnus launched the world's first successful liquid-fueled rocket in 1926, right here in Massachusetts.
Who is Robert Goddard?
This is the first week of the school year, packed with icebreakers, campus tours, and meeting your CA.
What is New Student Orientation?
This building on campus is named for a WPI alumni, and also used to house a trolley station.
What is Atwater Kent?
This is the number of colleges in the whole country that also have a goat as their mascot (including WPI).
What is two?
The ultimate test of freshman-sophomore rivalry, this grueling athletic tradition used to take place over Institute Park's pond during Homecoming weekend – but is now held on Alumni Field
What is the Rope Pull?
This is the year WPI had it’s first classes – hint it is NOT the year WPI was founded.
What is 1867?
This first-year residence hall is the only suite-style option for first year students, and has Starbucks, On the GOat Market, and Chick-N-Bap right on its first floor.
What is Founders Hall?
This bustling city, home to lots of internships, sports, and weekend trips, is less than an hour from WPI by train or car.
What is Boston?