<p>Like, do you often meet the same people in your major again and again? I mean after all those all-nighters/labs/hell weeks, you can build pretty strong friendships.</p>
<p>I second faraday’s question… anyone?</p>
<p>By senior year you’ll recognize everybody in your major. Who you keep as your lifelong friends is, you know, up to you.</p>
<p>I think you can create very close fridends in MIT. My son goes to Random house everyday after the class. He and his fridends study together, cook together and play video game together. My son is biology major but most of his fridend are in Math and Physics major.</p>
<p>I think it’s more who you live with than who’s in your major, though undoubtely you’re going to have to work with people in your major on labs etc. MIT dorms are relatively cohesive from what I’ve seen (mine is probably more than most, though) and I definitely feel like I’m coming home to my family each time I walk up the stairs to my floor. It’s really nice, actually.</p>
<p>Like everybody’s saying, living groups are always or almost always close-knit. Majors sometimes are and sometimes aren’t – I wasn’t really close to many people in brain and cog sci, even though it’s small, because there isn’t a clear progression through the department, so people take different classes in different orders and you’re not really in class with the same people all the time. My husband was really close with many of his aero/astro classmates, because they all have to take the same sophomore core sequence of classes, so they got very close sophomore year and stayed close.</p>
<p>My boyfriend was my junior lab partner.</p>
<p>…lol</p>
<p>My boyfriend was my diagonally across the hall neighbor.</p>
<p>…hehe</p>
<p>My (now ex-) boyfriend and I took a class together. It was a bad idea. =)</p>
<p>I haven’t become too close with many other MechE people, because I sort of took a different route through the courses (since I’m 2A)…so there wasn’t a cohesive group of people I was with.</p>
<p>It all depends- there are close knit groups within living groups, majors, and activities…you can sort of choose where you fit in best. Some people don’t really spend much time with others in their living groups, but have a really close group of friends from another source.</p>
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And your cheerleading stunt partner.</p>
<p>yeah… pretty incestuous.</p>
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<p>Heh. I didn’t. But then, I wasn’t close to the people in my major (some of them were close to each other, though). I was close to the people who lived on my hall (including some alums who were still local) and the people who participated in my formal and informal student activities.</p>