"We just had a couple of parties. We trashed a room twice in three weeks. It's just a mix-up--it wasn't really our fault," Millitello says.

But a paucity of parties does not necessarily mean that B-Schoolers sit home and study all day. "I would say we play as hard as we work," says Thomas V. Ealy, a first-year student.

Ha Ha Ha

"We never study. This place is a joke. There's no work at all," Epker says. He adds he spends his time working 20 hours per week for a venture-capital firm and watching television.

Drinking and watching television are how most B-Schoolers relax, Epker says. He added that there are "not enough" drugs on campus, although he says he has seen them before. "I'm not going to get honors, but what the hell," Epker says.

Students say sports--squash, basketball, volleyball, dance classes and daily aerobics classes, as well as the paddle tennis that has created a waiting list for court time--help them relax as well.

"Whenever there's an opportunity to blow off steam, they blow off steam," says first-year student Anthony J. DiNovi '84.

But the predominantly male population of Business School students spends a great deal of time trying to meet women, students say. Garbed in sweatshirts and button-down Oxfords, the students frequent the Boathouse Bar, and the more ambitious ones travel even farther to the Hong Kong.

Because there are no formal lines of connection between the College and the Business School, the Boathouse plays a crucial role in allowing the graduate students to mingle with the undergraduates, Ambro says.

Douglas J. Rowen, a first-year student called finding dates "the hardest part" of surviving the social scene at the school. "I haven't started any deep, meaningful relationships since I've been here."

Others travel to nearby women's colleges where undergraduates oft fall prey to Harvard MBAs. "There's always been a Wellesley connection," says one student who asked to remain anonymous.

Because of the approximate seven-to-three ratio of men to women among B-Schoolers, such connections are necessary. "Last week, to make the party really move [at a Friday night B-School gathering that featured four kegs and a band] we had to advertise at Wellesley [to invite women]," Ambro says.

Yet, many students do not have to make the effort to meet women, because they are already dating someone they knew before coming to Cambridge, Epker says.

Newman, who is married to a student at the Law School, says, "The students are older [here]. More than 50 percent of the people have very serious mates. It takes a lot of people out of the social scene."

As concerned as students are about their social life, however, as Phillipkosky says, "There's a fair amount of people who aren't motivated by a keg of beer."