<p>I got into Wellesley ED! Any cute brooding intellectuals get into Harvard ED or already attend Harvard around here and want to chat?? Do you ever come to the Wellesley campus or spend time with Wellesley girls?</p>
<p>lol, it's January and you're already facing up to the realities of an all-women's college?</p>
<p>Harvard girls want them all to themselves. . . . .</p>
<p>Haha, of course we do!</p>
<p>i have a (male) friend at MIT who goes to wellesley often...I think they use what's called the "cuddle shuttle" (involuntary shudder)</p>
<p>actually it's not called the cuddle shuttle ... it's called the f*** truck ... lol</p>
<p>haha yea, i've heard that, they say its a joke. i'm actually really excited to go to wellesley because i want to really concentrate on my studies. But it would be nice to meet a cute intellegent guy from harvard. i sort of like that pompous "air" ive been told about.</p>
<p>Hannah, unfortunately for you I guess, I haven't seen much pompousness in myself or any of the other Harvard '09 EA acceptees I've talked to.</p>
<p>darn, i guess ill have to settle for smart and cute then. haha. im just really excited for college. i cant wait to meet a boy with both a high iq and a personality, something that has been very rare around here.</p>
<p>Stop it, you're giving me ideas. . . . I'm going to Columbia next year. :-P hehe I'm only joking, though I am going to Columbia next year.</p>
<p>hannahbanana. are you really going to care about iq if you ever really like some guy? sure, it'll be a bit of a talking point when youre chatting with your friends but are you going to care if this guy is some superstar writer or mathematician or if hes just a guy from northeastern? personally i wouldnt care about it in a girl. there is a certain amount of intellectual respect that must exist mutually in a relationship, but outside of that relatively basic hurdle i wasnt aware that girls cared about smarts. ive always considered it just another trait like looks or race. if you have something good with someone i dont think intellect would matter.</p>
<p>you'd say that if you were never in that situation. you get bored after a while. no matter how much you love the person. you'd love him even more if he were able to talk to you about some philosophy he has, or some book he read recently, or something of that nature. im in that situation right now. sure its fun to live in the moment and have fun from each moment to the next, but id love to carry on a deep meaningful conversation with someone i felt so deeply for.</p>
<p>to me, it's not even respect for intellect that I need, but admiration</p>
<p>youre right i've never been in that situation. ive been nursing my philosophy that everyone can love anyone simply out of recognition of human value, but i have yet to try to love someone who i would typically not be attracted to. still, back to the topic, if you can carry on a cerebral conversation with a girl the real stuff starts coming out and you get the connection. what im saying is that, to love in the western sense, all i would have to do is be able to talk to her about stuff that i care about, not how my day went or some stupid tv program. if you can talk about real stuff with her then that's grand. if real stuff is something highly intellectual or not it doesnt matter to me, its just the activity.</p>
<p>the only way i can see arranged marriages working is that they truly love each other. i cant accept that we in the west have more love than they do in, say, india.</p>
<p>i'm curious to know..do a lot of boys really travel from harvard, mit, etc. to try to meet wellesley girls? why not stick to harvard girls? I've heard some people say: "harvard guys date harvard girls, but marry wellesley girls." what a statement.</p>
<p>qwert-- you're neglecting to acknowledge the fact that for many people, attraction is based somewhat on intelligence. I bet many people on this board would be incapable of being attracted to an airhead.</p>
<p>thats totally true 'sunglasses'. i get so turned on by a guy who can recite me poetry, talk about a book they recently read or even discuss current events. but i have yet to really meet such a boy. and as i said, it is really hard to get to a deeper level with someone who wont discuss deeper things with you, and only talks about how the day went type things.</p>
<p>I know someone from my school who was a total nerd (I say this affectionately, not meanly) who went to MIT. Since then, he joined a frat and now has a girlfriend from Wellesley.</p>
<p>for me, so many other qualities are more important than iq. iq is just another superficial trait that, when it comes down to it, is insignificant because i wouldnt end up loving the profound conversations or her brilliance, i would love the mutual understanding and the wonderful comfort. and i dont associate being able to talk about things other than how the day went exclusively with high iq. i can talk about so much thats profound to me and her that isnt necessarily highly intelligent. and, to me, talking about poetry and current events is only an extension of random 'how was your day' type stuff. its still meaningless and it still is only a filler between true stuff which isnt really talking. from what i know, if you can talk seriously with a really close friend and know him really intimately, that period of profound conversation lasts only for a few months, then you revert back to the filler stuff which becomes the real relationship. so, blah blah blah, i think that the romantic type stuff that youre associating with true attraction is thin just like a lot of the qualities you see, and dont appreciate, now in guys around you. the thrust of my argument is that girls without high iqs can still fulfill that void youre talking about because the stuff we'd talk about is not academic, its more emotional.</p>