<p>Disclaimer: I attend a nearby university and have no plans to transfer to MIT.</p>
<p>I have one question about MIT’s parties. Is it easy for some bum from a nearby university to get into an MIT party? I don’t know anyone at MIT, but I am somewhat keen on attending at least one MIT party, partially due to how highly reputed parties at MIT are.</p>
<p>You just gotta know the right people. ;)</p>
<p>You just have to get inside, which probably just entails following someone who has door access, or going in with a large group.</p>
<p>And it varies. When I was at MIT, single sex fraternity and sorority parties were often open to persons of the opposite sex from nearby schools. For example at an all-male fraternity, the door was usually open to all men and women from MIT and to women from other schools. Though there was a fair amount of discretion on the door.</p>
<p>So, when do these parties happen usually? Friday nights?</p>
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<p>I would suggest not doing it unless you have a friend, or at least a friend of a friend, in the host living group, unless the party is explicitly welcoming random people. MIT people have had bad experience with people from other colleges trying to glom onto their parties, and then behaving badly once they get there.</p>
<p>For this reason, party invitations usually aren’t heavily circulated - the hosts want to avoid random non-MIT people coming. With the really big parties that everyone hears about (e.g. Steer Roast), there’s tighter security, and you won’t be let in unless you’re on the guest list. With ordinary parties, if you find out about them, you have a chance of getting in, but if you do this, I suggest that you behave in a way that’s not going to bring negative attention to yourself, or you’re going to find yourself kicked out and PNGed (banned) from that living group, and possibly from campus.</p>
<p>Usually, there are open and closed parties at the frats. If there are a large number of people milling in and out of a frat, it’s probably an open party. The closed parties have much less people and you probably wouldn’t know anything was going on.</p>
<p>Haha, you need to check these vidoes out: [YouTube</a> - MIT Party Mode: MIDAS Automation System](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsPQWz9CWuA]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsPQWz9CWuA) and [YouTube</a> - MIT Dorm Automation System Party Mode Activation](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_kYaPZ6eds]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_kYaPZ6eds)</p>