<p>my bad I mean Cambridge hahaha and Cambridge is touching Boston
(sorry to create such a huge geographical debate lol)</p>
<p>and I think boneh3ad is severely underrating the MIT social scene and campus life. It’s pretty good in my opinion. If you’re a college student at another school in Boston and are looking to go to another college party at another school, it would be at MIT. BU, Northeastern, Harvard, Wellesley students go to MIT parties all the time. Not to mention that pranking makes the environment a lot fun too.</p>
<p>And I think, based on the suggestions you always make, that you may not have ever been off of the east coast. I never said MIT is a terrible social life. To be honest, I can’t REALLY make a comment on it and be 100% accurate since I never spent any meaningful time there, but I CAN tell you that it does not have a social reputation, while most big state schools do. While you might have first hand experience at MIT, you have made it pretty clear that you haven’t really spent much meaningful time outside of that area, so ranking the schools the way you did was pretty uninformed. At least look up information on the schools before you rank them.</p>
<p>Why is everyone getting so heated over this? </p>
<p>It’s an opinion thread. Everyone will have a different opinion, so state yours and move on. At the end of the day, the quality of the social scene will depend on your personality and how you socialize. If you like to socialize by disassembling a police car and reassembling it on top of a dome in a group, then MIT is your place. But if you like to socialize by crawling from keg party to keg party while there are wet tee-shirt contests in the background, then you’ll probably be pretty disappointed at MIT. That’s how an opinion works - no use in arguing.</p>
<p>that pretty much sums it up. MIT has also made playboys party schools list once or twice. Its probably because BU students flock to MIT parties due to BU’s strict dorms.</p>
<p>I would steer clear of using an organization’s own promotional video as evidence in the future. It very well might be true, but it is also more than likely embellished somewhat. That goes for pretty much any discussion where you are trying to show evidence.</p>
<p>“I would steer clear of using an organization’s own promotional video as evidence in the future. It very well might be true, but it is also more than likely embellished somewhat. That goes for pretty much any discussion where you are trying to show evidence.”</p>
<p>^Well, the few students on that video are not necessarily unbiased. In fact, it feels like they tried too hard to emphasis how social they actually were; when you watch different videos, you definitely feel some are trying harder to promote their own schools while others are more neutral and honest.</p>
<p>[opinion]
…No, Seattle isn’t a fun place. It’s amazing to visit for a week in August, but otherwise it’s a very boring, soulless, depressing town, and I see way too many OOS kids realizing this in their second quarter and running back to their hometowns (which are usually in California).</p>
<p>Illinois is known as a huge party school, I’ve visited it several times as have my friends and all we can see are parties on certain parts of campus. They have the biggest Greek system in the country I think.</p>
<p>Oh boy, Illinois has a major social scene. It has a huge Greek life and definitely knows how to party. My sister goes there as a grad student and I hear stories…
No one should be dissing.</p>
<p>Cal has good parties but they die out towards the end of the semester because engineering students buckle down. Crazy stuff goes down in Berkeley and you can get your fix usually. Only problem is when you can’t get into frats because you don’t have enough girls/some frats are really exclusive (TKE). </p>
<p>MIT though, is crazy too. My friend goes to BU and talks about how he parties over at MIT. The scene is good there because a lot of students from other schools go to MIT parties. So MIT students aren’t the party animals exactly. haha</p>
<p>I am not into Greek life. I went to UIUC. I had a great time there.</p>
<p>People like to talk about how great the Greek life is there and forget some of us can’t stand the whole Greek system. I was there for my undergrad and was never short of something to do unless it was one of those times where all of my friends had exams and I didn’t or something, which rarely happened. The Greeks there were very good for giving the rest of us something to laugh at though.</p>