actually in our college too, u can do almost any off-campus work and consider it a CPT. i worked in the summers in amusement parks, banks doing CPT thru our college. Not many colleges will allow u to do this.. but our college seems very friendly towards International students and give International students more flexibility. we even used to be able to work 30, 40 hours a week during school year until that stupid 9/11 thing.. and then they cut that out and made it 20 hours a week work only max. after graduation i still got my OPT.