Greek Life Opinions

I assure you that I don't pay dues... And I think we all understand that you are very against Greek systems so please stop beating a dead horse... your coming off as a douche
 
Frat houses where i live are nasty and all of the guys just seem to want as many girls as they can get just to be cool. The guys are just socially awkward and there are a few frat houses that like to slip date rape pills into girls drinks-WOW really cool! HA NOT! Thats pretty pathetic if they have to do that to get a girl.
The sororities where i live seem to be full of girls who cant make friends on their own either because they are huge bitches and think that they are hot shit(when theyre not) or because they want to feel cool.
Sorry but at least from what i have seen, frat/sorority life is way played up in the movies and really lame/pathetic in real life. I dont see why anyone would want to join one. But if you & your frat house is different then thats awesome. Come fix ours please.
 
There are so many sides to Greek life. There's definitely the guys who date rape or are creepy, and girls in sororities who are stuck up or elitist or whatever.

But, especially at bigger schools, Greek life can be sick. You get a super dope house all to your own. Whether you rush and bid with your friends or not, you'll meet your best friends through your fraternity (if it's a good one).

Greek life is really driven by the social aspect though. It wouldn't exist, and no one would join, if there wasn't a social side to the organizations. Otherwise they'd be just another service club. It's definitely not for everyone, but you CAN have a really good time anywhere between 2 and 5 nights a week and still get your school work done. And some of the best times of your life, and your fondest memories, will be had amongst your brothers (or sisters for girls).

I've found that people in greek life are just like the student body at large. Some guys are tools, some are creepers, some are awesome. Some girls are catty, some are really awesome and laid back.

But what makes it great is that you can participate in the drinking and the partying to whatever degree YOU want and benefit from the other aspects as well. You can network. You are exposed to a ton of people through the rest of the Greek system, and a lot of those people go on to be successful and influential both in college and after college. If you have a GLO on your resume, and some employer shares that bond with you, it could be the difference in getting a job that you want. Greeks look after their own, especially their own orgs.

Truthfully, Greeks are doing a lot of the same things, party-wise, that every other student does. Greeks just do it in bigger numbers.
 
Well said. In addition to the things you have mentioned, Greeks also do a ton of community service and fundraising for both national and local charities.
There is a quote that a few of our chapters have used on rush shirts "From the outside looking in, you can't understand it. From the inside looking out, you can't explain it." Basically, until you get involved with one of the organizations you will have no idea what Greek Life is really like and how much good it actually does.
 
I go to a school that's ridiculously Greek in nature. We have 1400-1600 students, and 75-85% of the population is in a fraternity or sorority. Most of my friends are in a fraternity or sorority, although a lot of them probably wouldn't have joined at most other schools. They're nice guys, I really like them- I live with a bunch of guys in different houses right now, and the only time someone gives a damn is during rush week (which is going on here right now).I came in REALLY, REALLY wanting to do it, and tried to prove myself way hard. It didn't work out, mainly because I was acting like a huge tool. So I mellowed out and joined a few semesters later, and quit two weeks later. I don't like how exclusionary the system is, and even though my pledgeship was pretty easy, I didn't agree with a lot of stuff that was going on.Essentially, I'm neutral on it. Looking back, I shouldn't have tried doing it from the start, but that doesn't mean it's a bad thing. At a bigger school, it would make more sense, but here, I have no real reason to. In all honesty, I only want to be in a fraternity six hours out of the year.
 
Well, here is your problem... You're trying to "expel rumors" that ONLY are relevant to your small school. Go to any state university, or any bigger school, and you will see that what you perceive as "rumors" are actually exactly how it is at every other college in the country.
 
because your not paying to be their friendits not like brothers pocket moneyits spend on beer, drugs, strippers and other assorted things normal friends dont have collections of cash to spend on for you.
 
stereotype. are you good at cooking and cleaning, bad at math, suck at driving, and have a small brain?
 
it's funny how the people hating on fraternities are the ones coming across as the douchebags...
you have no fucking idea what you're talking about first of all.
man i met some kids from this teener league baseball team and they were gay!and then i moved to another town and some kids on one of those baseball teams were gay too!everyone that plays baseball is gay!!! -this is you.
 
"greek life" is basically highschool all over again. each frat/sorority is like it's own little group and there is way too much drama between each house. people try and buy popularity and it's just stupid imo
 
Too bad your analogy fails cause of pics like these:

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That coupled with the fact that Greek life in the giant state schools do fit the stereotypes more often than not. The only frats and sororities at the big state schools that don't are usually the non-nationwide ones.
 
wow good joke with the baseball analogy....
and oh really? how many giant state schools have you gone to? how many fraternities at each school have you been to? how many people do you know or have even talked to in them?
you are fucking guessing you have no idea.
youare anidiot.
 
I was at WSU for a year and am now at another state school, a bit smaller, at EWU. I have been to every frat on the grounds at WSU and been to two or three that are here at WSU. Any frat with the letter Beta in it is trying way WAY too hard to be like Animal House.
 
so you've been to two state schools out of hundreds, but you know that out of those hundreds of schools the majority of fraternities are gay? hmmm well that doesnt sound right...
 
I went to Purdue for 2 and a half years. It's one of the largest greek communities in the world.

The stereotypes are true.
 
Compare the frats and sororities of today compared to what they were when they first came on.

Originally they were designed with each house being for a specific major and in these houses they had the old tests and assignments from key professors that were in the majors. Now, that aspect of the frat is all but gone.
 
first of all learn to speak english.
second, i know a lot of houses still have an "old test filing cabinet"
and third, you just tried to change the topic because you realized you literally have no idea about 99% of greek life in the u.s.
 
I've noticed this trend too. Everyone who's not in a fraternity seems to hate so easily on them without anything legit to back them up. Hate to tell you, but there are douchebags in every group. Fraternities are started with like-mindedness as a priority, so if you get one that encourages the douchers they will draw attention. Nobody notices the good ones because they're "normal" people and aren't doing anything dumb.
The fraternity that I'm currently pledging to is just starting up and we have a goal to break the record for amount of money raised in the city for breast cancer ever. We're planning on doing soup kitchens and all sorts of stuff to help out. Everyone is pretty legit and focused on doing good things for the school and community. We are all in it to help eachother to be the best people we can, as retarded as that sounds. We can basically run a business without huge consequences, and test our knowledge in a safer real world situation. But obviously we're just gay douchebags paying eachother to pretend to be friends so we can fuck girls and put roofies in their drinks right?

Basically, don't trust NS when it comes to fraternities. Many NSers in them don't give enough time to talk about the reality of fraternities, and most who aren't in them don't give a thought or chance to fraternities.

 
Oh don't worry, if you have to do lines of coke and suck dick to be in any club I think you're a useless piece of shit
 
find a frat that makes pledges do that and lemme know... shit like that doesnt really go down as often as you silly little tweeners think.
 
i generally hate frats because to me, it seems that they spend their time partying, or claiming that they aren't stereotypical, and do good things for the community, rather than actually doing them.

And you're not improving my thoughts towards them...

Cause the funny thing is that I have my friends here on campus, we live together, eat together, party together...yet we didn't have to pay, didn't have to pledge, we live by no specific rules, we don't refer to ourselves as "Greek" (which is stupid as fuck to begin with, last week i saw a mexican fratboy arguing about how greek he was)

Oh, and I don't have to waste my time justifying my hanging out with my friends. I do it because i like them. Not for some bullshit organization.
 
unless you sit on your ass and stare at each other, you do have to pay.
you people are fucking retarded. the money is used for parties and shit. when you drink, you buy booze, when you drink at a frat, they use the social money (which you kids consider paying for friends) to buy it, so you pay at the beginning of the semester rather than every time alcohol is purchased.
 
frats are lame. buncha dudes that jerk to sportscasts and drink beer. I don't want to associate with people like that.
 
one got shut down here for getting caught doing that last year. don't try to deny your dick sucking club's cocaine habit broseidon, lord of the brocean
 
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We can all strive to be more like you good sir.
 
im not in a frat anymore, i transferred. while i was there, i did not do any cocaine. we didnt call each other bro. but i did meet a bunch of nice kids who liked to have fun. believe it or not, there was no dick sucking either. and frats get shut down for numerous reasons, all the time, and then rumors start. i dont know how that frat got shut down, but im willing to bet money neither do you.
 
how was my opinion not relevant? the thread is about frats, and so was my opinion. I don't give a shit what you strive to be. I'm just saying that I prefer intelligent conversation about things that are actually significant, not who won the ball game or how fast I can chug a natty ice. all the frat parties i've been to have in no way provided me with this, thus leading me to the conclusion that frats are full of dudes that jerk off to sportscasts and drink beers.
 
let me clear some things up about pledging, because there is some reasoning behind it...
1. you do not do a single thing that can be considered homosexual. if that was the case no one would pledge.
2. pledging at my fraternity included tests, to weed out the dumbasses who you don't want representing you around campus.
3. pledging is also intended (and works very well) to bring you very close to your pledge brothers in a short amount of time. note: This does not mean you have to be best friends. me and another kid in my pledge class have almost fought on like 3 different occasions just since winter break. he is a douchebag.
4. chances are there are a few times during your pledge period where you will have to do physical things (pushups, bows and toes) and they will yell at you during this. this isn't at parties, or in front of people outside of the fraternity, it will be private. the point is not to just fuck with you, they want to see if you can handle it and if you have a backbone. if you start crying, or just can't handle it, they probably don't want you. one kid that was pledging a couple years ago got up and tried to fight them. they weren't like get this douche bag out of here, they said they liked how he could stand up for himself and was pretty fearless.
if there are any other questions about pledging please ask
 
and this proves that they made their pledges do drugs and perform homosexual acts? just keep trying to justify your hatred that is fueled by nothing other than your inability to decipher the shit other people say and what truly is going on.
 
This is my main problem with fraternities, the fact that you have to call people you absolutely despise your "brothers", and you have to pay money to do this.
There is nothing cool about frats at all. Here on my campus they live in worse accommodations than the kids in the dorms. I'm even friends with the president of chi psi, which I thought would be cool. Nope, their parties suck major dick, especially since all the betas come over from next door. I asked one beta why he decided to become a brother, his reasoning was that he could have more exclusive access to young freshman girls at the fraternity functions, since they don't let hardly any dudes in.
The best was when I was at chi psi late in the summer and there were all these bitch made little freshman there who were going to pledge in the fall. Since I was talking with the president of the frat they must have thought I was someone important, so I experienced what it was like to be a frat douchebag for a night. I told them to do push ups, get me beer, as well as force them to shot gun beers till one of them puked. It was only then that I realized what an incredible farce that whole fucking scene is. Fuck all your justifications like "friendship" and "future connections", that stuff is all garbage. You go through a period of non-stop bullshit (pledging), so that you can pay to hang out all the time with morons you probably don't even like but have to pretend to like (your brothers).
Don't even ask me about the lamer frats on campus like sigma pi. I wandered into one of their parties cause my friends were having a party at their house next door. All I saw was dumb fucking wasted freshman girls, each getting grinded on by at least 3 brothers on each side. I was then asked "woah woah woah bro, who do you here?"
The only worthwhile fraternities are perhaps the graduate ones, since the people there actually have drive and can help you advance your education rather than regress it.
 
i would have to agree. when i lived there for a few years my buddy was a pike and we would go there occasionally just to scam free beer. most of those kids sucked
 
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