Love Potion No. 9

Love Potion No. 9 In celebration of todays holiday, I decided it would make sense to provide you with a few thoughts on dating at MIT. I make no allegations of the sort that Im an expert on the issue by any stretch of the imagination, but for those of you interested, heres my take on the lay of the land. (But I am good with pick-up lines) Ill flashback to the conversation I had with my grandpa before I left for MIT: Gramps: Now dont be a hermit. Me: I wont. Gramps: I dont want any great-grandchildrenyet. When I came to MIT, I was somewhat afraid of what relationships would be like seeing that I expected to be studying a lot of the time. Would we have study dates in the library? Would we send each other love notes on the reverse side of returned problem sets? Cue unnecessary worrying. MIT is full of relationships, people whove been dating for days, weeks, years. Some homegrown MIT relationships, some long distance, some within the Boston city limits. In a town where there are so many college students, its not hard to meet new people. With dating and the like, I dont think theres really much science behind it at all. I just think this isnt one of the things theres a formula for. Although, here are a few amusing ones, try to identify what they are. r = 2a(1 + cos(theta)) C7 H8 N4 O2 (sorry, I cant get subscripts to work) Well, Im off to class where one or two of them will surely be paused for a serenade by the Logs of the Muses, but Im sure to think of something I missed in this entry throughout the day, so Ill probably be adding to this entry later on. Happy Valentines Day or for those of you celebrating the other holiday, Happy Single-ness Appreciation Day!