<p>Can a social conservative fit in at MIT?</p>
<p>Yes/No
How you know:</p>
<p>Yes. This is true of most if not all schools nowadays. There are conservative clubs and organizations on campus, and in Boston. (my son, who is a sophomore).</p>
<p>I would say yes, they could fit in. Since honestly, MIT students are probably more busy worrying about the status of their psets then on the political status of their peers. I’m conservative and I’m applying next year. 
So that makes at least one person!</p>
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<p>Whoa, I think this is actually true! At least, for me.</p>
<p>Yes. People at MIT seem to get along with a “live and let live” policy. You won’t become sort of target for your views. Students often have conversations about differing opinions, and they stay quite reasonable.</p>
<p>However, if you start shoving your beliefs in other people’s faces, that will not be well tolerated.</p>
<p>Social conservative is a very, very loaded term these days.</p>
<p>By the popular definition, you would probably not fit in at most college campuses. And by popular, I mean Randian, Fox News watching libertarians. If you’re something more reasonable, you shouldn’t have a problem anywhere.</p>
<p>“And by popular, I mean Randian, Fox News watching libertarians.”</p>
<p>As a libertarian, I hate this new definition of social conservatives more than I hate social conservatism itself. ._.</p>
<p>I was actually a rather right-wing Christian conservative when I arrived at MIT, and I didn’t feel my political stance was a problem in my (primarily socially liberal) living group. I mean, we got into some great debates about politics, but I felt I was respected for my views and I respected my entrymates for their views.</p>
<p>Try social conservative, economic liberal.</p>