MIT frats/parties?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>I know an acquantance who goes to MIT and it seems like she works really hard during the weekdays goes and gets drunk on every weekend. I'm not the work hard play hard type...more like work and play in moderation? And I don't like to drink. My friends can drink; I'll be the designated watever. So are there people who like to just hang out and catch a movie or something like that on the weekends...or are most of them a lady in the street and a freak in the bed?</p>

<p>Also, can someone give me an opinion on the frats? (full of nerds/jocks or what?)</p>

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<p>i too was wondering about this. I don't want to sound stereotypical but this is a common concern. I was EXTREMELY surprised when i got in and have not really concidered going here until recently... but honestly i'm scared i will hate it socially. Frankly,
1. how are the frat parties?
2. how attractive are the guys?
3. how many people get drunk everyweekend?
4. are there ANY pretty girls?
5. will i not fit in if i really don't care about building things and just happen to be good a math and science?</p>

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<p>The only way to find out is to go to CPW and see for yourself. MIT like most schools of its size has some of just about everything. Have yet to have heard of anyone not finding a group of like minded individuals on campus.</p>

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<p>I'd say most people are a 'hang out and catch a movie on the weekend'-type. I would sya very few people drink every weekend. I haven't touched a drop of alcohol in.......... I dunno, 2? 3? months. It's just that people who drink are usually loud and obnoxious about it, so you hear about that more often.</p>

<p>frat parties? I hear they're pretty good, i mean people from BU and BC and surrounding colleges attend them more so than their own parties</p>

<p>attractive guys? Come see for yourself?</p>

<p>how many people? Personally? I know of... 4.</p>

<p>ANY pretty girls? At least ONE</p>

<p>Will you fit in? probably SOMEWHERE. there are people of all kinds here</p>

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<p>so do ppl at mit frequently hangout/chill/party/date ppl from bu, bc, or wellesly??</p>

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<p>From my impression there were some attractive guys, not very many attractive girls. Of course there were still a few people who were really really attractive, but I'm talking about the average. Because in a pool of so many people you're bound to get a few of the model types.<br>
So yeah... basically you wouldn't really got to MIT for the 'hot chicks', and it seems a lot harder to find attractive people there than other places. But please don't let that be the deciding factor when choosing a school lol!</p>

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<p>well that's not why i'd pick a school but i just don't wanna feel jipped if i get there and i dont go to football games/ awesome frat parties etc.. (stereotypical collegelife)</p>

<p>cpw should be good. except do we go to any frat's that weekend? and do we stay in dorms?</p>

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<p>CPW is anything you make of it. Most of the frats hold parties friday and saturday. It's actually pretty ridiculous how many parties go on at the same time, and you just end up party-hopping. Also, at CPW, no drinking otherwise it's a huge offense on the frat. You won't want to stay in the dorms. There are things going on every hour of the day from the time you arrive.</p>

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<p>no drinking cause its a registered party right? and they most likely would be blamed?? and we do get a place to sleep though right?</p>

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<p>As a "work hard play hard" type I think I can field this question pretty well. CPW is dry, even some of the drunker dorm floors won't offer you alcohol (I say this because frats are bound by the IFC to be dry, but nothing really stops the dorm residents from drinking) unless you specifically ask for it. If you really want to drink during CPW you just have to keep on asking people who are around if you could perhaps have a delightful BEvERage of some sort. But there is legitimately a lot to do as well, so you do have tons of other stuff to do.</p>

<p>Now I'll try to field the questions posed before. Yes, there are tons of people who just catch a movie, or do work on the weekends. The Lecture Series (LSC) plays 3 dollar movies every weekend, I usually catch at least one, and besides that there are tons of people who don't go out but just hang out during the weekends, MIT isn't completely nuts. And the frats have a wide variety of images. There's the nerd frats, the jock frats (specific to sport), there's the stoner frat, the asian frat, the party frat, etc. Like 60% of male freshmen pledge so you invariably get a wide variety of people in frats.</p>

<p>Now calisurfers questions. Frat parties can range from really lame to great. Girls can usually get in anywhere, but it kind of sucks for guys, you have to hang around with girls just to get in places (and I've been refused alcohol because I came to a party with friends without knowing any brothers before). A lot of times you'll get stuck outside for a while too due to size restrictions, etc. So it really is a hit or miss night with frats, but you soon figure out which ones let guys in (not your concern), and you'll know people in frats so you can get in easier, etc.</p>

<p>The concensus is that MIT guys are in general more attractive on average that the girls. I can't judge guys, but I've been told by girls. I don't know how true this is at all.</p>

<p>How many people get drunk every weekend? hmmmm, depends on where you live. Where I live it seems as if tons of people get drunk every weekend, but other places I can imagine must be dead quiet during the weekend. You can always find people who drink on the weekend though.</p>

<p>There are attractive girls. Plus, at least this is true for me, my standards for girls dropped quite a bit once I got to MIT. Seriously.</p>

<p>And you will always fit in somewhere, I really can't imagine someone going to MIT and not finding at least a few people who they find fun to hang out with.</p>

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<p>For CPW, you will be assigned a host. Your host may live in a dorm, or may live in a fraternity, sorority, or independent living group.</p>

<p>There are an incredibly wide variety of social experiences at MIT. If you want to find a group of friends who will go out and drink every weekend, you can find them. If you want to drink every once in a while, you can find people who are psyched about that. If you never want to drink and want to play board games every weekend night, you can find people who want to do that. You will find a group of people just like you at MIT.</p>

<p>As for attractiveness... just remember that no matter how attractive you are, there is still going to be someone at MIT who is way, way out of your league.</p>

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<p>So here's what MIT is like:
We all go to school for 8 hours each day, doing impossibly hard math problems that actually have no answers. Then we go back to our rooms to do psets. We close the door so no one will distract us (even though we know that no one will because they'll all be doing their own psets in locks rooms), lock the door, turn off the lights, and do hours of psets in the glow of our computer screens. Then we wake up in the morning and do it all over again. On weekends we either study or take apart computers. No one ever talks to anyone else, has a social life, or any fun for that matter.</p>

<p>Oh, and we're all hideously ugly and disfigured. Each and every one of us is exactly the same. No one has any balance in their lives.</p>

<p>Come on guys. Get over yourselves already. Every year we go through the same freaking thing. Are you really going to pass up the chance to come to MIT (which for many of you, is your dream school) because you think the appropriately gendered people aren't attractive enough? Please. There happen to be plenty of attractive people here, who also happen to be quite intelligent and fun to talk to. Do you really think there's not a single, solitary attractive girl on the entire campus? Really? Do you really think that EVERYONE here gets incredibly drunk every single weekend? Come on.</p>

<p>I mean, it's fine to ask questions, it's fine to be curious about the school's social life. You should do that, it's important to figure out if you'll be happy wherever you end up. But please, get your priorities in order. Because first of all, if you phrase your questions in such a way to make gross (usually negative) generalizations about MIT students, we're much less likely to actually give you a legitimate answer. (Have I given you any really relevant information so far? No, because I'm mostly just ticked off about having to deal with BS questions about how attractive I am, AGAIN.) And second of all, if you're going to base your decision off of how attractive the people on your floor are going to be or how easy it is to find underage drinking opportunities...we'll just tell you exactly what you don't want to hear. Go somewhere else, and give your spot to someone who is mature enough to enjoy the opportunity without stressing over how hot their girlfriend might be.</p>

<p><em>end rant</em></p>

<p>If anyone has legitimate questions, I'm more than happy to answer them. But the "how ugly are MIT girls" question gets my blood boiling every time it comes up. If you think you can refrain from that, I'm all ears. PM me, comment on my blog (<a href="http://www.mitadmissions.org/Laura.shtml)%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.mitadmissions.org/Laura.shtml)&lt;/a>, whatever. I don't bite, I just get angry at immaturity.</p>

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<p>"As for attractiveness... just remember that no matter how attractive you are, there is still going to be someone at MIT who is way, way out of your league."</p>

<p>Haha... I wouldn't say that mollie, there are a few people who are just too hot for everyone ... (both guys and gals)</p>

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<p>Sklog_W:</p>

<p>if you don't mind me asking. where do you live? what part of campus/dorm?</p>

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<p>i mess around on mit's facebook network, and the people there seem pretty normal to hot on the attractiveness scale. but then again, i'm not too picky. just remember that with time everyone becomes ugly and wrinkled. if you pick a mate based on looks, then you will eventually be disappointed.</p>

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<p>I walked home through campus today, and I was people-watching with the express purpose of trying to determine whether MIT students are actually less attractive than average. It's something that's brought up every year as a cold hard fact, but I just don't see it. Most people at MIT, like most people in the world, just look average.</p>

<p>I'm marrying someone I met at MIT. He is good-looking and athletic and absolutely brilliant. Best of all possible worlds.</p>

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<p>and even if not attractive, i'm just hoping for a great group of friends both girls and guys who i can relate with and have fun with. </p>

<p>do mit frats do date nights/formals and stuff like other schools?</p>

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<p>Yes, they do. I think [url=<a href="http://www.mitadmissions.org/Bryan.shtml%5DBryan%5B/url"&gt;http://www.mitadmissions.org/Bryan.shtml]Bryan[/url&lt;/a&gt;] has a few entries about them -- his fraternity calls them "soirees".</p>

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<p>There are hot people at MIT. Perhaps not as many at, say, UT, but there are attractive women. I don't think MIT is below average in this respect.</p>

<p>If MIT girls aren't your thing, there are like twelve thousand colleges in the vicinity. Since I've been here I've gone out with folk from MIT, BU, BC, Tufts, Berklee, and the SMFA. If you can't find attractive men and women in Boston, you're not looking hard enough.</p>

<p>I would like to take this time to state from personal experience that I do not believe it is wise to date someone who lives near you. Especially not in your dorm, ESPECIALLY not in your hall. I'm actually against inter-campus dating.</p>

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<p>MIT people are less attractive generally. Being attractive isn't just genetic. Think about how many girls spend hours in front of the mirror trying to look perfect. It requires effort to meet societies aesthetic standards. MIT people, guys and girls, spend time doing other things, which in the long run are probably more productive.</p>

<p>Also, people say that you can date girls from other schools, but the problem is, when girls come from other schools, they're generally either looking for A) attention or B) booze. Hot girls walk into MIT with a chip on their shoulder, they're hot and we're nerds, or at least thats what they think. So, if you can get past the HGES (Hot girl ego syndrome), maybe you'll find someone. Also note that some girls do come to MIT looking for the M.R.S. degree, and that's another case.</p>

<p>However, should you really be that shallow? The consensus among my friends in myself is that MIT girls are the best, hands down, to date. They're generally nice, interesting, and know exactly what you're going through. If you don't have time to go out because you have work, they understand. Plus they're smart, and probably have a tinge of nerd in them just like you do. A lot of girls at MIT are very pretty, but they just don't go overkill on the make-up and outfits.</p>

<p>On the flip side, if you think MIT is a giant party it really isn't. We work hard, and we work some more. If you want to drink you can, but you DEFINITELY will not be alone if you want to watch a movie on the weekends (I'm more of the video game type.)</p>