Joining Fraternities and Sororities

[Bedhead]

What exactly are fraternities? What makes them training grounds for superficial people? I've heard these stereotypes, I just don't understand why they exist...

To explain the "training" ground for sheep phrase... in a fraternity, if one guy jumps off a cliff, all the others tend to as well. No matter how retarded something is... if one guy does it, the others tend to follow suit. The ability to think for yourself goes down the drain once you join a frat.

Frats/Sororities aren't all bad, but the stereotype definitely exist - and some people even enjoy living up to the stereotype.

 

[ebola?]

Dear men and women in the Greek system:

please top breaking bottles in the bike lane--you don't see me throwing pill bottles and nitrous cartridges on the sidewalk.

ebola

 

[rant*N*rave]

I'm a member of Alpha Chi Sigma, a professional chemistry fraternity, and it is NOTHING like any of the stereotypes you hear. We do tons of charity work (lots of science stuff for girl/boy scouts, tutoring, as well as the "typical" stuff), have awesome parties that aren't idiot-fests with people puking everywhere and trashing the house, and commiserate with each other about getting into grad school and plowing through shitty lab experiences and painful exams and all that. The focus really is the science and not the political/social bullshit that comes with most frats/sororities, but we still have plenty of fun. We don't really associate with the rest of the Greek system on campus (don't do Homecoming or that shit). We do also get the benefits of networking, and we get prestige being members of the founding chapter of the fraternity at a school that is still stellar in the sciences.

The rest of 'em, yeah, mostly just a bunch of coked up, drunk assholes that like to feel important about themselves by being part of a predefined group.

But don't judge us ALL. tyvm.