<p>Okay, now I love MIT. I want to double major in philosophy and physics and found both these departments to be splendid. I loved the campus, the city of Boston, and the academic setting. HOwever, one thing I wasn't sure about was social life.</p>
<p>I'll be honest now... I am someone that wants to work hard and party hard in college. I want to be surrounded by a group of brilliant people that are always willing to go out and have a good time at night. I hear at MIT, these kinds of people are sparse. Is it true, or is it a dumb rumor? Please help me because this might be the deciding factor in choosing MIT.</p>
<p>but the disco dance floor? that was awesome.</p>
<p>in my experience, good parties and good people to do nifty things with aren't in short supply. it's far more common to have tooling rather than lack of desire get in the way of us going out at night.</p>
<p>If you so desire, you can always find people to go party with. The only thing I've found this incompatible with is the desire to only hang out with one group of people. If you only have one small social circle, you will frequently find them tooling when you want to party, but if you have two or three groups of friends, they are rarely all working at the same time. Odds are good that if they are, you also have a final tomorrow and should be working as well.</p>
<p>arsenalfan i think you might find mit a bit too lopsided for your needs. i am just basing this on people who got in from my school and who didn't, and it was heavy geek admittance. they admitted a person that is not able to hold a conversation and rejected another person that is as well rounded as you can get. you can immediately tell which of them is the human being and which of them has no clue what they are</p>
<p>now i know a thing or two about arse fans and if you're a football fan you'd probably be better off where people are, as a rule, more sociable rather than less</p>
<p>maybe we can go to the same college together and throw a party every saturday at 7AM ;)</p>
<p>some people here are incapable of normal social interaction, or even quirky-but-enjoyable interaction. some are just plain obnoxiously clueless. but i wouldn't be so quick to characterize all of us as such.</p>
<p>this whole "no social life" thing is bullsht, in my opinion. im not a student yet at MIT but i was at CPW and went to at least 12 frat parties over the weekend. a lot of them were awesome, one was on the roof of one of the dorms overlooking boston anda reallygood party. in general, i kno that ppl from B.U., wellesley, B.C. and berkeley and harvard go to MIT parties bc they're really good. this weekend they were all dry - so im sure if they're a lot of fun when theyre dry, they're a lot better when they're not. i came to CPW w/ the same stereotypes, and found that stereotypes just dont work. u'll find the quirky/nerdy types in certain parts of the campus (east campus?), and really fun social ppl in others (i.e. baker, simmons,etc.) i thot a lot of the pplwere attractive too so that stereotype doesnt work either. and many are well rounded and MIT has so manyactivities. so go and visit and see for urself b4 u judge prematurely like i did (plus, boston is amazing!)</p>
<p>while there were a lot of people willing to party, i have to admit that there WERE a lot of lock-myself-in-my-dorm-and-study types...overall, i think you'll be able to find whatever type of person you're looking for. my host emphasized that you should NOT judge based on CPW, because the normal atmosphere is a lot more intense and a lot less partying.</p>
<p>Read "Run, Little Children" in the issue of The Tech they were giving out for some more thoughts on that same vein...</p>
<p>"Good social life: COME TO EUROPE!!!
minimum drinking age: theoretically 16, in practice, 14
nothing like 5-0 to bust up a party!"</p>
<p>In practice, 10-11 my friend... As well as cigarettes, and soft drugs.
I do not think it is the best place in the world to party... Unless you lack empathy and imagination. :/</p>
<p>hey! conwoman I was at that party too...it was the one thrown my PBE, right? Good times...yeah the frat party scene was definitely on during CPW, but I doubt it's like that year 'round. I'm sure that students love to blow off steam on the weekends....generally it seems like an atmosphere of "work hard and play hard (but work harder)"</p>
<p>i guess there are nerds at MIT. you can't really tell, though, unless you look really hard. During CPW, I visited many dorms, many frats, and many parties. It's obscene how normal MIT people are. I did get to visit some nerds, though. But I had to really look hard for them.</p>
<p>Nerds at MIT? Yeah, they are there. But good luck finding them. Cause most everyone that you will meet isn't.</p>
<p>thats so true, hikkifan...most of the people I saw were in frats/involved in some sport or just generally interesting, well-rounded people...I guess the uber-introverted nerds just hold themselves up in their rooms all day and we dont get to see them</p>
<p>lol, reggie, speaking of, I took a tour of Random Hall (NW61) and got to see the holed-up uber-nerds. Very pale kids, if I recall correctly, playing math games on notepads, surrounded by very old computer equipment. They had a computer that could talk. It had a name - don't remember what it was. There was a chalkboard with scribbled equations on it. Many parts of Random Hall are very messy. VERY nice people, though - if a bit quirky. They served us pancakes and waffles. mmmm they were super good.</p>