Dating in Business School

I'm not in business school yet and will have a very limited dating pool at whichever school I do plan to attend simply because of the limited number of gay students in business school...BUT however, I still have found this topic very interesting.  I stumbled across a blog post from someone at Uva Darden about Dating in business school and decided to talk about this topic.  I have nothing else really to do at this juncture although I think I'm going to re-read Ahead of the Curve!

In any event, so dating in business school... does it happen?  Well of course, it's inevitable.  I have friends who tell me that School X and School Y are notorious for folks matching up and getting hitched later in life.  I've also been warned by folks that if you go to a small school in a remote location with say... 250 students.  Your business WILL get out.  This isn't just isolated to dating per se, but I guess people may think that those are the juicy details.  In my eyes I'm like.. hey to each his or her own.  If you like it... I love it!  If it works for you.. then it works for me!  As long as I'm not being hurt....then by all means!

In the blog post from the Darden(ite), I'm not sure what students at Darden as called, there was one bullet point that said -

"Taken people don’t always act taken: Sometimes people with boyfriends, girlfriends, fiancés or spouses act single. Most folks are faithful, but the tasteless joke is that MBA stands for “Married But Available.”

Now that's disturbing.  Sure it happens but that's unfortunately.  Here is the link to the full blog post about Dating in Business School.

Here is another article about 15 Ways to Know You're Dating an MBA.  There are a couple of hilarious bullets in here and I wish I could just republish this, but it's not my content so I'll give you a little teaser - 

1.  "Calls the first month of your relationship a "preliminary assessment period""

2.  "Refers to love-making as a 'win-win' 

This person also made another post about The Eight Immutable Laws of Dating an MBA.  And here is a teaser for this post!

1.  "Women are scarce and are therefore in demand, Men are plentiful and therefore a commodity"

- The B-school dating scene (heterosexual, anyway) is a good case study on that old rule of supply and demand: What happens when a commodity is scarce and its consumers are plentiful? Men outnumber women by as much as two to one in many MBA programs, which means women can be picky.