<p>omg im not fat. In fact i was on my high school's kick team and have been dancing for a very long time. I just don't feel I have to show dirty men my body.</p>
<p>I dunno, living here has shaped my mind because a lot of my friends are christian, mormon, etc.</p>
<p>After seeing those pictures I'm glad I applied to Vandy and UVa. Really glad.</p>
<p>well...I've heard things about the senate bus ;)
look it up on wikipedia</p>
<p>see, those girls are not attractive. Ill just be the residential hotty : )</p>
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<p>...and this thread inches closer to one of my biggest pet peeves about people on this board.</p>
<p>Have no fear, everyone -- no matter how really, really, really ridiculously good-looking you are (and I'm sure everyone on this board lives in Lake Wobegon and is above average), there will still be plenty of people at MIT who are way out of your league.</p>
<p>OK, I'll put it bluntly then:</p>
<p>gfmb- nono, you have it all wrong. firstly, you have the definition of "modesty" all confused with "insecurity". secondly, you will be very disappointed if you come here expecting to be in some top bracket of overall attractiveness. If you're not considered attractive back home you won't be here. If you are considered attractive back home you may want to work on your personality. One of (if not the) prettiest girl(s) I've ever met I met here.</p>
<p>grill- I'm really glad you applied to Vandy and UVA as well. Your chances at MIT aren't very good. It's good to cover your back.</p>
<p>JLP- BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF, WOMAN. LOOK WHAT YOU STARTED. I'm ever so glad you're not my roommate.</p>
<p>mollie- lash out, girl. let'm have it.</p>
<p>EVERYONE- hey, by the way, that calendar is a fundraiser, wait... WHAT FOR you ask?!! Scholarships. Yeah, that's right, you ungrateful slimebags, we're sticking out our ugly necks for YOU, so YOU could go to college and pay a little less. The girls are completely volunteers, anyone who wanted to be in the calendar could be in it. Most girls are wearing very little, if any, makeup, as it was kind of a INTHEMIDDLEOFTERM project so yeah, the girls were probably too freaking busy doing, oh... quantum physics to worry about the reactions of the likes of you. Ooh, my roommate just made ramen, I will RESUME THIS.</p>
<p>OK so,
There are some very attractive girls in the calendar (the previews are not representative) and some not very attractive ones. So no, they're not all the MOST attractive girls at our dorm (far from it) but they've got guts and they've got dignity. So suck on that.</p>
<p>and because this is a generally belligerent kind of post, I will link THIS as it amused me tremendously:</p>
<p><a href="http://www-tech.mit.edu/V126/N9/9latke.html%5B/url%5D">http://www-tech.mit.edu/V126/N9/9latke.html</a></p>
<p>All ad hominem attacks aside, I don't see any harm in some sarcarm comparing the attractiveness of MIT, UVa, and Vanderbilt women. Please excuse my oh-so mordant criticism of a website posted in a public forum. </p>
<p>Nice straw man, molliebatmit; I never implied I was more attractive than the girls in the calender, much less everyone at MIT. My comparison involved only the female students at the three aforementioned universities. </p>
<p>Anyways, the moderators will probably remove the link to any soft core pornography fundraisers, whatever the purposes may be.</p>
<p>This thread is beggining to remind me of a thread from last year about MIT cheerleaders. Last years thread made me angry and I waited too long to make what ultimately turned out to be the final post to the thread. Like the cheerleaders of last year, these young ladies are nice people doing a good thing for the benefit of others. How dare you be critical of them for any reason? Here is how last years thread ended, just substitute "calendar Girls" for "squad" and you will have my feelings about this thread " To those who had nothing nice to say, but had to say it anyway; you should be ashamed, and you owe every member of the squad an apology. To the girls on the squad: keep up the good work, have fun, ignore the idiots, and thank-you."</p>
<p>Who the heck cares about where the women are the most attractive? Sometimes I really think some people's priorities are messed up in a big way.</p>
<p>Chill, people, it's a fundraiser. And I love every one of those girls just for volunteering. YOU GO, WOMEN OF THE EAST SIDE!</p>
<p>PS: I'll take a hamentashen, please. Poppy seed preferred over prune.</p>
<p>(56forceout, we cross-posted. And I ditto every word you wrote. :) )</p>
<p>"Who the heck cares about where the women are the most attractive? "</p>
<p>...probably not the parents of college students. To each his own, thank you.</p>
<p>All issues of beauty aside, as a concession, I failed to see the purpose of the calender when the link was first posted. Good effort, I guess. That is, if you applaud girls conforming to an sterotype of objectification. I'm all for scholarships, but MIT girls in a sleazy calender? I had expected better. Assigning a noble cause to an effort hardly justifies it (Machiavelli would be proud.) This isn't an instance of everyone picking on the poor MIT girls, it's one person critisizing certain methods which he deems sleazy. I think cheerleaders would be offended by your comparision of them to naked women posing for a calender.</p>
<p>That's one of the criteria you'll use to choose your college? Pity.</p>
<p>So...anyone want to share more links to pages featuring pictures of M.I.T.? :)</p>
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<p>The MIT cheerleaders are hard to offend.</p>
<p>56forceout, this thread reminds me of the cheerleading thread too. Luckily, I don't happen to be one of the girls on the EC calendar, but I remember all too well what it was like to stumble on some random internet site where high school kids were discussing the physical attractiveness of me and my friends. It's not a nice feeling.</p>
<p>EDIT: Regarding actual pictures of MIT, my darling (and quite physically attractive) boyfriend is at the moment putting together a relevant website for a class he's taking. The site will be a somewhat interactive virtual MIT tour, complete with panoramas of selected spots on campus and the ability to submit your own photos for inclusion. I'll let you all know when it's up!</p>
<p>EDIT 2 (regarding the post below): One criterion, two criteria. Your grammar and mootmom's are both correct.</p>
<p>"That's one of the criteria you'll use to choose your college? Pity."</p>
<p>I guess Strawman fallacies abound on this board. After failing to see the clear sarcasm in my first post, you blatantly fabricate arguments, attribute them to me, and then attack them. I would be offended, but then again, maybe I should pity you for misinterpreting sarcasm and then making a value judgement of me.</p>
<p>I never said I used the attractiveness of women as a criterion (note your grammar) for my college search. Just like the weather, it's something I sometimes think about, but I have always based my application choices on academics, facilities and resources, size, the surrounding area (city, suburb, etc), and the general social life of undergraduates (I favor "work hard, play hard" over the "work none, play all the time" mentality.) </p>
<p>By the way, it was after I applied to Vanderbilt and UVa that I was told of the supposed good looks of the girls there. Bite your tongue.</p>
<p>"I remember all too well what it was like to stumble on some random internet site where high school kids were discussing the physical attractiveness of me and my friends. It's not a nice feeling."</p>
<p>I don't see how that's anything more than your problem. If you're willing to post pictures of yourself on the internet at least be ready for the reactions of others, especially if people willingly bring it up on a public online forum. Personally, had I known that the girls in the calender were posting on this forum, I would have refrained from such remarks of jest.</p>
<p>"EDIT 2 (regarding the post below): One criterion, two criteria. Your grammar and mootmom's are both correct." </p>
<p>Point taken, thank you.</p>
<p>grill- ok... but conversely, if you're going to criticize, you better brace yourself for the reactions of those you are disparaging. Works both ways, my errant friend.</p>
<p>I'm not trying to teach anyone a life lesson or anything, just dished out what was almost explicitly requested.</p>
<p>I agree, which is why I have responded to the responses of my response. :)</p>
<p>I had so, so hoped it wouldn't come to this.</p>
<p><em>disappointed in the world</em></p>
<p>=(</p>
<p>pebbles: omg im not secure. I just have respect for my own body unlike those in that calender. Just because its a funraiser doesn't justify it. I would never strip and disgrace myself even for an MIT education. They must not have morals or virtues up there. I also think your standards of what is hot and what is not is totally different than me. I live in state that has the most attractive people in the US and so many people have told me im one of the most beautiful girls they are have ever seen no lie. Stop assuming you know what i am and what i look like and work on yourself.</p>
<p>But i do think comparing stripping to cheerleading is a bit extreme feminsty. (sorry im tired)</p>
<p>Hi, my name is the East Side Calendar, I was, am, and always will be, a joke. I am a tongue-in-cheek mockery of those supermodel calendars that sell like hotcakes. Because it's what we do sometimes at East Campus. We mock things. Like you, for example.</p>
<p>I don't believe the human body is something to be guarded with all you have, but then again, I also don't view my body/physical appearance as the most precious part of me.</p>
<p>You might want to look into McCormick by the way.</p>