Does dating life get better here than in high school

molliebatmit
Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:20:53 +0000

A friend of mine recently remarked to me on how common long-term relationships are here; people just don’t have time to deal with the drama of relationship problems, and somehow it just kind of keeps them at bay.

I agree.

Re: dating at MIT and finding people that you like to date, please recall that I met my husband when I was a sophomore and he was a freshman. [MIT Admissions | Blog Entry: “An MIT wedding”](http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/misc/miscellaneous/an_mit_wedding.shtml)

The semester I met him, I was in the middle of a heavy courseload semester, cheerleading competition season, and a bunch of important work at lab. I still had time for that early relationship stuff, basically because I didn’t sleep for a few weeks. (I tried to graph average hours of sleep vs. semester GPA once, and the semester I met my husband screwed everything up, because I got no sleep, but still got a good GPA.)