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Your sarcasm aside, it was a big deal to me; one of the few positive decisions I made as an undergrad. My personal experience notwithstanding, I didn't show up in this thread to get pulled into a pissing match with anyone. It was right for me, and I get how others have no interest. That's cool. Live and let live.

Frat parties did always have tasty biscuits I will give them that

Nothing against them just didn't need to join one, I worked at a bar instead. Worked just as well and I got paid.

The funny part of that story is no hot girls go to DKE, EVER. They treat their house like shit and are a bunch of creeps (according sorority girls)

living with over 60 guys in a house would suck ass. I just dont see the upside to that AT ALL but different strokes I guess. I enjoyed having an apartment all to my self and going to house parties or the bars (instead of attending frat parties).

Its interesting to hear people talk about how joining a Frat helped them meet more people. While I believe at first this could be true; however, I feel in the long run it is not necessarily true. Frats tend to have guys together that are like one another (like any group of friends). This is because due to voting most guys will pick people they feel comfortable with leading to a group of guys together that have similar background (there are always a few outliers). Now this said group of guys throws parties and attends parties, but generally (if Frats are anything like the ones at Miami) they only associate with a one or two of the sororities.These sororities being whatever ones they feel are like them. Not to mention generally guys within the Frat do no associate with other people outside the frat that much (i.e. going to other parties, hanging out guys from other frats, etc). If they do, they tend to people to are disassociating themselves from the frat during their upperclassmen years. To me this seems if anything you are limiting yourself from meeting people from different backgrounds. Now I am not saying that not joining a frat helps change this. People tend to associate themselves with like people, I am just fighting the stance that Frats help you meet tons of new people more than people who do not join one. As tGreenway said for some people joining a Frat is great and helps a lot, but others is doesn't. Personally, I didn't see the benefit.

Had a blast at my Frat back in the day. All of the chicks and my current wife were met through the house. Some of the exclusive shit we did, meet greet & fuck sororities, date nights where you pick the girl, Halloween (good god) It was like a non-stop porno party from August till December. How I got any schoolwork done I have no clue

Problem was we partied so much we lost the charter at State

Normally, I like your posts. On this, you sound like a twit here or a narrow minded narcissistic dweeb. I was in a frat too and I don't remember occupying peoples emotions. People asked if I liked it or if I felt that I really got anything out of it. That was about it. People may have been pissed at you when they met you if you came across like a jack ass, not because you were in a fraternity.

I think being at a larger school allows for more diversity that way. I have heard about that element at Miami so I knew where you were coming from.

The other thing to consider was the culture at IU when I was there. In the early 80's, it was pretty much a mad-house and I have heard that it has since returned to that at various times. I was there during a period where they were trying to crack down hard on the party culture. Undercover cops were a big thing then. They would get into parties and bring down the whole thing for underage drinkers, serving to minors and all that. I don't think there were actually that many under-covers but it made everyone so paranoid that the big blowout parties were pretty rare outside of the Greek system.

So the party scene really made the Greek system more attractive at IU than it might some other places. Had I gone somewhere else for undergrad I probably wouldn't have even looked into. As I said, though, I was glad it worked out how it did for me. As it relates to MSU, I think the size of the school lends itself to diversity in the Greek system for those that are looking for it.

this is why i chose to rush GDI

Always love these threads when they pop up every 6 months or so. Here's my piece:

I had a positive experience in a house @ MSU. But the better benefits I've had have been after college: I owe my current job to a brother who was able to get me a law clerk interview in the firm as a first year law student; 20 yrs later, I'm still good friends and regularly see the two guys I lived with for my year in the house; and two of my better friends I've met post college turned out to be from the same fraternity at other schools. Would we have been friends otherwise? Probably - but having something in common when meeting them helped. It's not for everyone (my wife wasn't in a soriority @ MSU), but I enjoyed it.

Sure, these things could have happened w/out the frat. But joining the house shrunk the university down and gave me an additional networking group for the rest of my life.

Did everyone see that FAMU band kid that got beat up by his band members on a bus and died? If not there is a thread. No doubt it was a frat that murdered that young man right OP? This is why I didn't join the band.......