<p>How is dating at MIT relative to other top schools? Also, from what I have heard, MIT seems to be shedding its nerdy stereotype gradually. Is there any truth to this? do you think that MIT is less nerdy than say, 5 or 6 years ago? Or just the same?</p>
<p>I think that being nerdy is considered more cool in popular culture than it was five or six years ago. ;)</p>
<p>I can’t speak to dating at MIT relative to anywhere else, but I met my husband when we were both students (he was a freshman and I was a sophomore), and we’ve been to several weddings of MIT friends to each other over the past few years. Most of the people in our group of friends were dating other MIT students, although that isn’t necessarily true for all social groups.</p>
<p>As someone who was around 5 years ago, took time off, and is back to being a student now (w00 senior year!) - MIT has not lost its nerdness. Mollie’s right, pop culture is just becoming better ;)</p>
<p>My experience also matches Mollie’s on seeing a lot of MIT people dating other MIT people, and seeing many of these couples get married over time. (I’ll mention that Mollie and I come from different parts of campus - west and east - so that seems to be present throughout MIT, I guess ^_^)</p>
<p>What sort of information are you looking for on dating? There’s a lot of normal long-term dating that happens on campus, there are hookups, there are pockets of polyamorous and/or kinky people, there are LGBT’s, etc. As far as I can tell, all of those types of dating are going pretty strong. MIT’s not really good at fitting into one category :)</p>
<p>Whatever you want at MIT, you can find at MIT. Nerdy people, “normal” people, long-term relationship, short-term relationship, relationship with boy, relationship with girl, relationship with boy and girl, relationship with multiple boys and/or girls at the same time, casual sex with one person, casual sex with multiple people, casual dating, someone to just cuddle with, lots of people to just cuddle with, no relationship at all. My experience is that MIT has more options and more freedom than many other places. The freedom can be liberating, interesting, degrading, or avoided. I’ve experienced all four. If you end up here, be prepared for people to be open to and looking for different things. Don’t be too naive. Don’t be crushed. Just avoid the things you don’t want and be respectful of your limits.</p>