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From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: "Party" Schools?
Message-ID: <1186@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 02:55:20 EST
Article-I.D.: mit-vax.1186
Posted: Thu Nov 21 02:55:20 1985
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Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
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Summary: 

In article <1158@princeton.UUCP> jsl@princeton.UUCP (Jong Lee) writes:
>Wait just a minute here, just because a school is prone to parties
>does not mean that it not have "excellent academics".

Let's not forget the flip side of the coin. I don't think I've ever 
heard of MIT (nerd heaven) referred to as a "Party" school. Most of us 
have been know to go weeks at a time without partying (except in the 
frats where social norms are more important tha personal expression 
[flame intended]). 

The difference seems to be that while MIT students don't party as often,
they get more out of it when they do. At what other schools would you 
expect a party like the VBTB? At this once-every-three-years event, a 
room is bathed in ultra-violet lights and the party goes are given beer,
twinkies and all the vaseline they can smear on their friends (or soon-
to-be friends ;-). At many college parties, groups of students will 
sneak off to smoke dope -- how many schools fill their bongs with liquid
nitrogen stolen from VLSI labs? Recently I attended a party whose 
location was a little odd -- on top of the Great Dome. In order to get 
their, the planners had to disable an extensive alarm system, picks 
several large padlocks, re-wire the elevator control and scale and 18 
foot wall eight stories off the ground.

Now, I've heard stories about great parties at other schools where "the 
beer kegs lasted all weekend", but when they happen almost every night, 
I imagine they get a little dull. MIT students don't party very often, 
but when they do, their very industrious about it. They don't take to 
being called "a bunch of anti-social nerds."

Probably the best mention of an MIT party was in Lisa Birnbach's 
"College Handbook" which said that Senior House's Steer Roast party is 
the best college party in the area (which it is).

We certainly don't have a monopoly of engineer-party-types here, I'm 
curious to hear what "interesting" events occur at other colleges.

-- 
-Charles