Does dating life get better here than in high school

LauraN
Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:58:43 +0000

Mollie, you got no sleep and a good GPA because you are a superhuman laser-focused time management ninja genius. In other words, as amusing as it is that you took detailed sleep data for most/all of MIT, I don’t think the data is relevant. You are an outlier. =P

Munchybunch: McCormick is the only single-sex dorm (female), but floorcest (dating someone from your own floor) is strongly discouraged. This strong discouragement does apparently nothing to limit its occurrence, but seriously, keep it in mind. Dormcest (dating someone from your dorm but outside your floor) is not so bad, but still potentially problematic.

As for the actual subject of this thread, there is certainly an active dating scene at MIT. I know most people get nearly all of their information from the blogs, but in this case you need to keep in mind that most of us tried to keep the amount of personal information on the interwebs to a minimum. (And just to prove my first point from this post, Mollie has been an exception to literally everything I’ve said so far.)

Most MIT relationships are the long-term variety. People don’t really have the time or even the patience to mess around with a lot of dates with different people. Most social circles are less about going out clubbing all the time and more analogous to the “order a pizza and watch a movie” date.