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Originally posted by Fmr12B:
It's no longer Animal House every weekend.
The hell it isn't! Go Huskies! Woo Woo!
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Originally posted by Fmr12B:
It's no longer Animal House every weekend.
Yep, it's true. The University of Oklahoma became a dry campus a couple years back and I cant even recall the last time I saw a flyer for a party at a frat house.
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Originally posted by The Digital Slacker:
Anyways, there are only two reasons for frats.
1. You are not 21 yet and have the urge to drink cheap beer.
Actually, I drink cheaper beer now than I did when I was in college. So you're wrong there.
Originally posted by The Digital Slacker:
2. You are unable to get friends normally and enjoy being somebodys [censored] for a period of time just so you can do it to others.
I never went through hazing of any kind, and never put anyone else through it. I will swear on a stack of Bibles to this fact. Plus, I had plenty of friends before I joined a fraternity and many of those people (non-fraternity) are still friends to this day.
Originally posted by The Digital Slacker:
No thanks. I make fun of frat brothers just because they think they are badass ;0
Which makes you equally as badass, I'm sure. Nobody in here that was in a fraternity is ragging on people that weren't in one (it's funny how that is the case 99.9% of the time)...
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Originally posted by Fmr12B:
Frats are great. They also look great on your resume. The community serivce events and team building activites mean a lot to your future employers.
This is true. I was involved in a TON of community service with mine. It looks great on a resume, especially to a kid coming straight out of college with no real work experience.
Originally posted by Fmr12B:
People who [censored] on frats have no idea what they are truly about 
It's been my experience that the people that talk s*** about them never joined one because they were too worried what their friends might think.
Originally posted by Fmr12B:
Frats help motivate you to keep your grades up, manage your schedule, get you involved in school spirit, tutor you and the like.
My GPA was higher during the period I was in a fraternity than during the time I was in school and not in one. With the way the house GPA worked, if I slacked off I wasn't just screwing myself, I was screwing everyone else. Also, when you're taking 15+ credit hours, working 2 jobs, studying AND trying to fulfill fraternity duties, you learn damn fast how to schedule your time.
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Good post. My daughter is a college senior this year, and she pledged a sorority last year. They are extremely service oriented and have done a TON of community service. And she's having a blast while doing it. She's now vice prez and she's become their project coordinator.
She has already made lots of networking contacts, and we're sure her sorority service/affiliation helped her get a seat in grad school. I know darn well it didn't hurt.
Scoff if you must, but frats/sororities definitely are NOT just animal house revisited.
That resume will go a long way, especially if your prospective employer is a frat brother/sister.
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Originally posted by hopalong:
My daughter is a college senior this year, and she pledged a sorority last year. They are extremely service oriented and have done a TON of community service. And she's having a blast while doing it. She's now vice prez and she's become their project coordinator.
You'll get out of it exactly what you put in. Whether the naysayers want to admit it or not, this kind of stuff looks REALLY good on a resume. And the contacts never hurt either.
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Originally posted by hopalong:
Scoff if you must, but frats/sororities definitely are NOT just animal house revisited.
I just revisited my old frat at Texas State last week (I helped them buy a new house last fall). I had to wade through all the beer cans and unconscious actives(although it was at the crack of noon).
....I miss college 
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Aren't frat chicks usually hot too? Well, at least not the nerd frats...
If they try to force-shape me (i.e. force me to cross train to a different career field that sucks or get out) at the end of my enlistment, I'm going to use my GI Bill and try to get a Bachelors in EE.
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Originally posted by Big Daddy Kane:
Aren't frat chicks usually hot too? Well, at least not the nerd frats...
They be called Sorority chicks...............
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars ~ Hobart Brown
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