<p>So I know that some marvelously successful romances come out of MIT (i.e. Mollie), but how common are relationships at MIT in general? I noticed that none of the other bloggers ever mention relationships on their blogs; is this just because they don’t want to post something so personal, or they don’t want to have to deal with explaining a break-up to however many thousand readers, or they’re just to busy to have standing relationships, or what? I’m curious. :)</p>
<p>In the case of all of the bloggers I know well, it’s definitely not out of a lack of relationships. 
(Actually, at one point during their freshman year, two of the '07 bloggers dated each other. But I’m not going to say which ones, and it’s not the ones you would probably think of first.)</p>
<p>Actually further, one of the people in [this</a> blog entry by Ben](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/life/workplay_balance_at_mit/dating_at_mit_episode_1.shtml]this”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/life/workplay_balance_at_mit/dating_at_mit_episode_1.shtml) was a blogger.</p>
<p>Basically all of my friends dated someone at MIT for some length of time during undergrad. A minority of those people are still dating. My personal feeling (although I know this is constrained by the people I hung out with) is that a lot of my friends’ relationships, and mine and Adam’s, too, moved a lot faster at MIT than they would have elsewhere, because we didn’t have time for all the dithering around headgames people usually play at the beginning of a relationship.</p>
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<p>I’m going to say that I wasn’t one of them. :)</p>
<p>I think it’s that bloggers don’t want to post things that personal in public (unless they’re Ben and the personal things are about somebody else ;)). Even if they don’t mind people knowing about their own life, they’d generally want to protect the privacy of a significant other. Especially given how some fans of the blogs become rather excessive or stalkerish.</p>
<p>Most people I know/knew at MIT (including me) had relationships at some point while they were students. In most cases, it was with other MIT students, or young MIT alums, though I hear that in some circles dating Wellesley students is also popular.</p>
<p>I disagree with Mollie in the sense that my relationship as an MIT student most definitely did not move quickly, but I think that’s a personal preference thing. :)</p>
<p>I think the relationship clock ticks slower- as opposed to the big romantic dates every weekend you get the lunch breaks between classes every once in a while and study session in computer clusters, and maybe you actually ‘go out’ once a month- but the relationship matures faster w/ respect to that clock, precisely because very few people actually have time for the whole complicated works and one date pretty much suffice for three and so on.</p>
<p>I went to a MIT info session last year, and thought it was kind of funny that when the alumni (around 8 or so) there introduced themselves, all but like one said they met their current significant others at MIT.</p>
<p>Hee.</p>
<p>This thread greatly amuses me.</p>
<p>That is all. =D</p>
<p>Hate to resurrect a dead thread, but thought you guys might find this amusing.</p>
<p>[How</a> to Pick Up … at MIT - The Tech](<a href=“http://www-tech.mit.edu/V127/N61/dshirokoff.html]How”>http://www-tech.mit.edu/V127/N61/dshirokoff.html)</p>
<p>I laughed, at least.</p>