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Fraternities

                “What frat are you in?” This is the question that I am most frequently presented with when I meet new people at college. It just seems a bit odd to me that the national organization that you decided to pay annual fees to throughout your college daze is more important than practical questions like: Where are you from?, what year are you?, what’s your major?, even what’s your name? It may be hard to believe or understand this if you haven’t been exposed to the college environment yet, but believe me; at colleges with large Greek populations, fraternities are like god’s vagina. When I look at fraternities, specifically their purpose, it becomes quite obvious to me that all of these frats are just groups of kids, competing day in and day out, straight up trying to conquer the social totem pole.

Rush/Selection process:

                Frats seek out and pick the kids that will affect their frat’s image in the best possible way. The most important factor in this rationale is essentially the kids’ ability to get girls or not. If the kids get girls, then not only will they generate a certain reputation for the fraternity, but they will also draw in girls to the fraternity, allowing other brothers to get action, and reaffirming the reputation of the fraternity.

                 A plague is upon us in contemporary college life. Not being in a fraternity causes girls to show no interest in you.

“Hey, how’s it going?” – GDI (god damn independent)

“Oh what frat are you in?” – Dumb bitch

 “I’m not in one, they’re not for me”- GDI

“Oh that’s funny… cuz you’re not for me." – Dumb bitch.

                This is practically how it is sometimes when you meet college girls for the first time. When it comes down to it, you must ask yourself the question, “do I want to pledge a fraternity (which is really terrible) to allow myself to create friendships and connections or do I want to try to do that stuff on my own?” When you are able to answer this question for yourself, you should know and fully understand why you’re pledging a fraternity or choosing not to. Whether you realize it or not, by making this decision, you have chosen your fate - the lifestyle that you are going to engage in until you graduate. If you’re reading this right now and are making the presumption that I hate fraternities, you are wrong. I don’t particularly love fraternities, but I, by no means, hate them. I am simply laying out the facts and suggesting that that the social standard of being involved in a fraternity is a little fucked up. If you had no luck in the past with developing friendships, hanging out with others, or having relationships with females, then step on down, say hello to Jesus (fraternities), your lord and savior. Now, one may ask, “What’s so bad about those things” There’s nothing bad about those things, but it’s not that easy/simple. To be part of a fraternity, one must rush (have you ever flirted with guys before?), then pledge (can’t maintain health, grades, or self-respect), and then even after you’re initiated, you must pay to remain a member, as if college wasn’t expensive enough (goodbye money, hello debt!). As you can see, it’s a very large commitment to enter Greek world, but once you’re in, it sure is a hell of a ride! I guess in the end, some of us have other priorities in mind that prevent from being part of all the fun. I mean, what even is college besides having sex with each other and getting fucked up?