<p>Ignoring the troll debate here, I can honestly say that I was pleasantly surprised by the attractiveness of people here. After visiting another college of equal repute back in the midwest, let's just say that I was not expecting much on the attractiveness front when I visited MIT. Quite honestly, my expectations were far enough exceeded to the point where I actually mentioned it to one of the girls I was staying with. If you were looking for honesty, I can't give you much more than that.</p>
<p>You can find some seriously attractive people here very easily. You can also find some not very attractive people here. Both exist in sufficient quantities to keep both groups happy.</p>
<p>Umm since when does a guy acknowledge a girl 'chick'. "Hey chick what's up?" No, people don't say that. I said chick as in that's another name for girl. You don't hear "Hey girl or Hey female" Well you may hear Hey girl if one girl is talking to another. You call them by their name. Chick is just a word for guys talking to other guys.</p>
<p>I totally agree. If this were asked in another school's forum, people would not react like this. Why do we all hae to be caught up in "If the academics at MIT doesn't mean everything to you and nothing else matters, then MIT is not for you."?</p>
<p>Paul pretty much summarized it nicely. I mean, you can certainly come here and refer to 8.012 as "Physics I in-depth" all the time, but you'll find it a lot easier to integrate into the general environment if you're willing to learn the numbers. I myself didn't know any of the majors by their numbers either until after I was accepted, haha.</p>
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I can't imagine why MIT students would be on here if they weren't trying to pump up their school. I mean other than that, why would college students spend any time on this forum?
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Perhaps some of us like giving advice to high schoolers who are currently going through something that we have likewise experienced. It's the same motivation as the parent who attempts to teach his child how to navigate the murky waters of life. Perhaps some of us want to see others succeed, want to share the knowledge that we possess, want to help ease the stress and answer questions that the admissions officers may be too busy to address. We aren't here just to "pump up" our school - we try our best to display the pros -and- the cons, and you are free to create your own judgements based on the data we present. Likewise, I (and others, I am sure) am supportive of -any- college choice, be it MIT or Yale or a public university. If I could, I would give insight not only on MIT life but also on Harvard life, UChicago life, Vanderbilt life, etc. Alas, however, I have never attended any institution except MIT and as such, I can only serve as a primary source of information for the MIT community. You are free, as I said before, to create whatever judgements you want from the information we give you, as ultimately we aren't salespitchers or walking adboards. Love it or hate it, we'll show you MIT from the inside and you can take it as you like it.</p>
How would that even be possible? Admissions officers on CC are identified by the "College Rep" tag under their usernames in posts.
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They could (and I suspect do) register other accounts that are not affiliated with the school to spread rumors or lies and to encourage admissions. I'm not saying that I know any one school does this (MIT may or may not be doing this, but I suspect they might considering the fishy things that go on in MIT admissions, you know what I'm talking about!!), but I'd be surprised if no schools did it.
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Umm since when does a guy acknowledge a girl 'chick'.
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This is common slang. Also, let's not get all huffy about political correctness.
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You represent a biased sample. You never see people from, say, Caltech or Stanford posting in this forum which means that only your perspective is heard. Since you decided to go to MIT I already can infer your opinion.
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MIT is RIGHT NEXT TO BOSTON! SO MANY GIRLS! Believe me, I know. Just go talk to random girls and get game son!
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Man. It's like all your interested in is getting "game". Some of us want meaningful relationships with our chicks.</p>
<p>As to the number system. When I go to MIT, I'm going to be a rebel and just say the names. If people want to ostracize me for that, well then I'll transfer somewhere more welcoming.</p>
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They could (and I suspect do) register other accounts that are not affiliated with the school to spread rumors or lies and to encourage admissions.
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If you suspect any specific instances, you should report them to the moderators. We don't allow multiple registrations by the same person, and we would ban those IDs.</p>
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MIT may or may not be doing this, but I suspect they might considering the fishy things that go on in MIT admissions, you know what I'm talking about!!
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No, I don't.</p>
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You represent a biased sample. You never see people from, say, Caltech or Stanford posting in this forum which means that only your perspective is heard.
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Actually, that's not true -- several Caltech students watch this forum and post when they see something relevant. But if you don't want the opinions of MIT students, why not post in the College Search and Selection forum? In my opinion, it's a choice between posting somewhere where people may be biased and posting somewhere where people may be uninformed, but it's up to you.</p>
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As to the number system. When I go to MIT, I'm going to be a rebel and just say the names. If people want to ostracize me for that, well then I'll transfer somewhere more welcoming.
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No one would ostracize someone for not using the number system. But if you came here, I think you'd find that the number system is much easier, once you get the hang of it.</p>
<p>Mollie's suggestion to ask other subforums might be helpful.</p>
<p>And I think your question is valid. After all, most of us will date in college, and many of us even end up finding The One here. I'll give you some of my background -- I'm a MIT '10 girl, and I mostly hang around these forums because I'm an Internet addict. By the way, there are forums here for people beyond high school seniors; in my case the useful forums are the Architecture Major forum, the Graduate School forum, the College Life forum, and I like reading the Parents Cafe for some reason. I also don't like to see confused people say things about my school that may be inaccurate or misleading (you'd want to correct people who say skewed things about your school too, surely). So people who go to college definitely have reasons to hang around.</p>
<p>But let's get to the juicy topic: dating! I was one of those people who came to MIT attached to a wonderful high school sweetheart. He happened to go to BU. We stayed together for all of freshman year. It was a great time - he enjoyed hanging out with me and MIT and hearing crazy stories I had to tell, and I enjoyed spending time with him at BU because we got to explore Boston a bit and it was a nice way to get away from MIT for the rare moments when I got tired of school. </p>
<p>As for other people I knew at MIT? It interestingly covers a wide range. I've met people who came to MIT already dating someone, still recovering from a breakup, single and wanting to play the game, single and looking for meaningful relationships, single and can't be bothered to look... I even found someone my age who got married the summer before college (the other goes to a different college nearby, they live happily together on campus I think). Sorry I can't really define a certain scene, but that is probably influenced by what area of campus you live in or what friends you hang out with, and so on.</p>
<p>As for me.. my sophomore year I had a short lovely go with someone who lives near me, and then I got involved with a much more awesome guy who I've been with for almost 8 months now (though right now he's taking time off so it's turned long-distance :(). My best friend has been with his girlfriend for more than a year and a half now, and I know several MIT couples who've been together longer and seem quite happy being nearly inseparable. My other best friend is the type to go party and take a girl home for a good time though at the moment he's absolutely smitten over a girl on a different floor in the way that he'd want to marry her and even thinks he's not good enough for her oh my gosh it's kind of cute. </p>
<p>Ummmmmm anyway. I hope my rambling about my life at MIT helps you a bit?? I mean, if there are so many MIT girls getting some and/or getting committed then there must be so many attractive girls here or something. :P</p>
<p>How many NON-MIT students on this forum do you expect to have "experience" with MIT girls?</p>
<p>Like Mollie, I have also polished a particular reply to this all-too-common "question," so I apologize that some of you might have heard this before.</p>
<p>The girls at MIT are every bit as hot as the guys at MIT. </p>
<p>(And, depending on your criteria, every bit as nerdy.) In other words, I guess my point is the counterpart to Mollie's: You'll probably find someone within your league.</p>
<p>P.S. mootmom wins, I totally didn't notice that.</p>
<p>As always it depends on what you like. But, I've never heard anyone who actually goes to MIT (boy or girl) complain about not being able to find someone who meets "their standards" here, it's usually just the prefrosh in my experience. Or it could be specific to the people I know. In any case, it's just life like anywhere else after a while, and maybe it's there and maybe it's not, but you just stop keeping score after a while and enjoy what's there. For what it's worth, high school girls or visiting girls from other local colleges are sometimes VERY conspicuous. It could be that they make themselves so because of their exaggerated self confidence (probably expecting extra attention), or it's something subtle about the way they walk or look or travel in a straight line formation with their 3 other girlfriends. Either way it's legit, MIT girls for the most part aren't really like girls at some other places. Or college girls in general or something. But some are. Some totally are.</p>
<p>One very good reason to use numbers for the courses that hasn't been mentioned is that departments use it for structure.</p>
<p>For example, 18.0* is introductory, 18.1** is usually analysis, 18.7** is Algebra, 18.9** is Topology, etc etc. This also happens in course 6 and I'm fairly confident other majors do it.</p>
<p>In terms of MIT girls not looking super hot: have you considered that they might be busy pulling all nighters and such? Maybe the day you see them they haven't had time to prep and look their best. I know the amount of effort I put into looking decent (I don't even own a comb) as a guy would make me probably look not too well kept as a girl. But the girls are very nice people, often with great personalities, high intelligence, and they look good enough for me.</p>
<p>Sure Academics are not the end all be all at MIT. But they do play a large role in how we students structure our lives, and most people seem to get along fine.</p>
<p>It really just comes down to what happens when you get there. You can't really talk about girls and get prepared or anythin, if your meant to be with someone there then you'll find them. I'll think about all this stuff after I get in, I'm a bit more concerned about that first. :P</p>
<p>hey all im hoping is there are some super smart and super hot girls... i want both extremities in one person LOL... but yah it would be bonus if shes hot and smart, at least i can talk to her about medicine, physics, etc... and she can like relate... thats one reason i applied to this institution.. hoping to find another creative mind to ponder things while cuddlin HAHA yah i said cuddling, what of it? :P lol</p>
<p>I'll be the kid talking to random girls in the entire Boston area because of one fact: most of the colleges in the Boston area are pretty prestigious. What does this mean? I won't be hooking up with a complete retard. So when I find a girl that I perceive as superficially hot, I know she will also be intelligent. So my rankings go:
Personality is most important.
Then it is a TIE with looks and intelligence. I wouldn't want to be with a girl that put her head into a wood chipper (even though that would be HORRIBLE and I would cry for her), but I would also never date a girl that was as dumb as a floorboard.</p>