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05-06-2008, 01:47 AM
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| The point is that the assertion is no longer "a disproportionate number of MIT guys date off-campus" but rather becomes, "a disproportionate number of off-campus MIT guys date off-campus" | 
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05-06-2008, 10:33 AM
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| ... which is still a large number of the population overall. That was my assertion when I said that half the guys are in frats. (And certainly they aren't the only ones, I know people on my hall who date off campus.) | |
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05-06-2008, 01:24 PM
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| funny, people on my hall just date each other. | |
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05-06-2008, 01:31 PM
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| Haha, we have some hall couples too =) | |
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05-06-2008, 03:39 PM
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| Do frat guys date sorority girls? | |
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05-06-2008, 10:01 PM
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| Yeah. My CPW host's (who is in a sorority) boyfriend is in a fraternity. | |
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05-06-2008, 10:04 PM
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| But guys who are in fraternities also date girls who are not in sororities -- after all, # guys in fraternities > # of girls in sororities, and most MIT students are not in polyamorous relationships.  | |
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05-07-2008, 04:46 PM
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| re: pebbles and Piper... my hall too. XD
everyone dates everyone! wheeeeeeeee | |
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05-10-2008, 02:33 AM
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| "a disproportionate number of MIT guys date off-campus"
Really? Seems like the pool of girls in Boston's collegiate community is more varied than the pool of guys(Wellesley, Simmons, BU), so it would make sense for more guys to date off campus than girls, since a larger portion of the elegible population is off campus.
Most people I know wind up dating people from within and outside of the MIT community over their 4 year. I don't really understand the whole some MIT girls not liking non-MIT girls thing/ being annoyed by them. I've met plenty of intellegent, interesting people who don't go to MIT, and don't see why your decision of where to go to college should speak so strongly about who you are as a person. | |
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05-10-2008, 02:16 PM
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| "everyone dates everyone! wheeeeeeeee"
Haha, in the i3 video for New House, one guy says, "New House (# which I forget) is like one big family. I think of all my hall mates as my little brothers and little sisters. Except some of my little brothers date some of my little sisters. So I guess this House practices incest. Incest House!" | |
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05-10-2008, 03:47 PM
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| Our hall (and probably other halls) use the word "hallcest" =D
As for MIT girls not liking non-MIT girls, the general idea is that if guys date non-MIT girls, there's less for the MIT girls to date. This is no good =P | |
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05-10-2008, 07:14 PM
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| So EC calls their living groups "halls" but BC calls them "floors." So where they have "hallcest" we have "floorcest." Floorcest is strongly discouraged. But it always happens anyway. It's truly an awful idea, but that never stopped anyone..... | |
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05-10-2008, 08:33 PM
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| And MacGregor has entrycest. At one point my senior year, we had 6 or 7 resident couples in a 32-person entry, which is really sort of absurd.
I will put in a plug for dating within your dorm (people are likely to be similar to you, since you picked the same dorm; convenient; very short walk of shame in the mornings) but not within your entry/hall/floor. When -cest ends, it rarely ends well. | |
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05-11-2008, 02:31 PM
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| Two mature people can thrive in any kind of a relationship and bring it to a graceful end. I have no problem w/ non-MIT girls, but if you know anything about the hidden culture of female aggression and competition you wouldn't have to ask that question. I don't see a whole lot of them, personally, usually they stay far away from EC. | |
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05-11-2008, 03:25 PM
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| ? Please explain... | |
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