<p>Well, Wellesley is one of my top choices, but I really love having guy friends. I was just wondering if at Wellesley the MIT guys only date the girls there, or if they are friends as well. I really like having guy friends, so I need to know from others' experiences if I can find any, or if they'll just want relationships. Thanks :]</p>
<p>As a (graduate) student at MIT, I can tell you that guys and girls do form actual friendship groups. Whether you make guy friends or relationships if you visit MIT really depends on the context you meet people and how you present yourself. Go for the activities, not “parties”.</p>
<p>good advice wendy mouse!!! I’m glad I read this!</p>
<p>Definitely agree with WendyMouse. Parties will be filled with boys who are there to party. If you get involved with an activity (Wellesley/MIT Toons for example) or other organizations who do joint-activities with other schools you’ll be able to meet boys who you already share similar interests with…and they might actually remember your name the next day.</p>
<p>Yesssss one of my favorite topics!!</p>
<p>You really just have to throw yourself out there, get off campus. A lot of guys might be interested in you, and perhaps you’ll end up dating one (or two if you feel like being risque?), but I’ve been friends with some here and there. I started dating a MIT guy my freshman year, and have met a lot of close guy friends through his fraternity. (Lol I just got off the phone with one of them, who wanted advice on some girl problems. :))</p>
<p>ALSO don’t forget Olin/Babson! I had two really nice guys in my Japanese class from Olin 
I know a lot of girls who would go to those campuses to hang out and have made some good friends, too.</p>
<p>Agreed! There are very nice people at Olin.</p>
<p>I was thinking about this, too. So there are opportunities to meet guys at Wellesley? Clubs between Wellesley and other schools like MIT sound awesome. Do you current students have any more tips on the co-ed social scene?</p>
<p>Co-ed social scene:
-Boys can cross-register at Wellesley for classes and we can cross-register at MIT, Olin, Babson, Brandeis
-Organizations that collaborate with other student groups: most notably, Wellesley-MIT Toons, Wellesley-Brandeis Orchestra, a capella groups in general, Wellesley-MIT Ballroom Dance Team, etc
-All Olin organizations are open to Wellesley students and (generally) all Olin students are allowed in all Wellesley organizations
-Athletics
-On-campus parties put on by numerous organizations
-MIT, Babson fraternities and other off-campus parties
-Your friends at other schools in Boston (don’t discount BU, BC, Berklee, etc - they’re all awesome!)
-Your roommate’s friends, your neighbor’s friends, etc</p>
<p>Other current students: feel free to add to the list :)</p>
<p>I have guy friends and I am a first-year Again, the key is to go off campus for activities you enjoy and find like-minded guys!</p>
<p>a ton of wellesley girls come to babson parties! its very close, easy to get to, and there is a bus that runs to and from</p>
<p>Some of the ‘sorority’ parties at Wellesley draw guys from some Boston schools like Harvard and MIT. I go to Babson and have been to Wellesley several times. Girls from Wellesley often come and party at Babson as well.</p>
<p>Like others have said, you just have to make the effort to get out there. Wellesley is interesting in that the student body is composed of a wide-range of students: women who enter Wellesley as “self-proclaimed guys girls” and women who have attended only single-sex institutions (and are socially awkward when it comes to guys)… women who’ve never gone on a single date and women who’re serial daters.</p>
<p>As a prospie, you worry about whether you’ll maintain friendships with guys… However, with time, if you’re like my friends and me, you just get too lazy to exert the effort to get off-campus/ would rather spend Friday night chilling on-campus together.</p>
<p>Then boys become sort of rare, exotic creatures… you smell cologne on campus and stop in confusion at the scent of male. when you hear guys talking, you begin to think their voices absurdly deep and they seem so OLD and TALL. :P</p>
<p>Verbivorous, you make me wanna die…that was so funny 
hahaha
So, you Wellesley girls DO attack men on subways… haha jk</p>