<p>are there a lot of parties?</p>
<p>and do people have sexual relationships, or do they just not care about them cuz they are so into school?</p>
<p>yes, and yes.</p>
<p>college students, are college students! :-)</p>
<p>they’re all neutered and lock away in dungeons at night :rolleyes:</p>
<p>doesn't MIT throw crazy crazy parties?</p>
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<p>You must be joking...</p>
<p>It doesnt matter the caliber of the school you attend--there will be SEX.</p>
<p>We're smart, but we're still in college for godssakes.</p>
<p>MIT does have a lot of parties -- work hard, play hard -- along with a very active fraternity scene. (I believe there are twenty-five fraternities, but I keep forgetting to count.)</p>
<p>As far as sex goes, everything is perfectly normal, except that I think maybe there are more serious relationships more quickly. People don't have time for stupid relationships/drama, so couples get serious pretty fast.</p>
<p>i highly doubt the parties are as good or diverse as big state colleges, for obvious reasons. and i'm pretty sure you'll find more sex on big state colleges, for obvious reasons.</p>
<p>but yeah, there ARE still parties and sex, it just might not be as good.</p>
<p>I dunno but crazy parties at MIT seems sketchy. I can't see a bunch of nerds in three inch frames getting down dirty.</p>
<p>Rice has an underwear party (NOD):
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Every year around Halloween, Rice University's Wiess College throws a party called the Night of Decadence. Instead of traditional costumes, students wear as little as possible. Although there are always several people creatively attired in Saran Wrap or fishnet stockings and pasties, the traditional costume is boxer shorts for men, and bra and panties for women. The theme of the event is always sexual (e.g. James Bondage, Lust In Space), alcoholic beverages are freely available and sexually explicit materials decorate the Wiess College commons. For these reasons, the party is a polarizing event on the Rice University campus. Although it still exists, the decorations have become more conservative in recent years.
On the other hand NOD doesn't stand for "Night of Decency," either.
A common (though apocryphal and unvalidated) campus tradition holds that in the 1970s, NOD was ranked by Playboy magazine as one of the best campus parties in the country.
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<p>Well, as far as parties being better at big state colleges -- I'm not sure about that, since all of the Boston college kids are inclined to party together. The total college student mass in Boston is comparable to even the biggest state schools.</p>
<p>And I can't see a bunch of nerds in three-inch frames getting down and dirty either. Good thing stereotypes aren't true.</p>
<p>geeks can be the biggest freaks…& about Rice…that’s hot</p>
<p>Every college has parties. There are also sexual relationships everywhere too. Harvard and MIT students would probably be less likely to have sex with someone they just met that night which lots of kids do at state schools. They probably only would with people they were dating.</p>
<p>screw sex parties, i'm throwing a huge 30 people lan party when i get in college</p>
<p>One girl accepted at Harvard almost didn't go. She complained that there were too many parties.</p>
<p>I think you have this weird delusion that Ivy students are asexual and read/study 24/7.</p>
<p>Go to an MIT party and find out. I went to one, and it was a lot more fun than my usual "big state school" parties. It was easier to start conversations, plus the booze was free.</p>
<p>I can't tell you about campus life in general, but I can tell you that when I go visit my father in that part of the world, I've been hit on by more than one Harvard grad student interested in sex and definitely not a relationship. :-) And of course I always say no, right girls?. ;-) </p>
<p>One's sex drive doesn't go away because one is in school, no matter which school one is in. And, smart people are sexy -- that goes for all schools!</p>
<p>I think the parties may be just as big but they are certainly different. They must be, the composition of the partygoers are radically different than that of most schools.</p>
<p>Maybe they are fun parties and they are also large.</p>
<p>I seriously doubt that MIT has a comparable amount of binge drinking and one night stands versus Arizona State.</p>
<p>I think a lot of people who say that MIT has good parties are sticking up for the nerds or smart people, ie they have a personal interest in stating that they party and people like them party, and that they would probably enjoy a less hardcore/raunchy party than most college students.</p>
<p>this was all pure conjecture</p>
<p>They are smart, but I'm sure they also use bad judgment sometimes, such as in situations with binge drinking/random sex/drugs. Someone can't be intelligent all the time, especially outside the classroom. Plus, at other universities, there are people just as smart and qualified as MIT kids, just in a smaller concentration. And MIT most likely has their share of students who shouldn't necessarily be there in the first place.</p>
<p>Melanqoly- the benefit of going to a school with smart kids and 'really rich kids whose daddies got them in' is that it's bad form to charge for booze. </p>
<p>cmaher- you're sadly misguided if you think that the only people who get in to top schools are nerds. we've got plenty of rich stupid kids, poor stupid kids with interesting essays, stupid athletes, and others who know how to have an idiotically good time.</p>