01-02-2008, 10:40 AM
Using my 'experience' with the dutch versions of frats I can only be negative.
Some people that go to university very much need others to show that they are going to university; best way to do that? join a frat.
Can't make friends on your own? ; join a frat.
Want to be sure you get a job using nepotism?; join a frat.
I also noticed that most people that continue for a PhD were not the ones in fraternities.
I mean, it will all be good fun, gives you a nice sense of 'home', but I just don't like the whole idea behind it.
If you go to university you are supposed to finish it yourself; it is not school. So why have your personal life 'being lived' in an organized way?
Of course I don't want to comment on people personally, not everybody is the same, and I know enough people that joined frats who are perfectly respectable people (and my idea of the lurkerlounge is that all of you are intelligent and respectable people). I just don't like the idea of forming societies that are there for, and to show that, you are able to go to uni.
Some people that go to university very much need others to show that they are going to university; best way to do that? join a frat.
Can't make friends on your own? ; join a frat.
Want to be sure you get a job using nepotism?; join a frat.
I also noticed that most people that continue for a PhD were not the ones in fraternities.
I mean, it will all be good fun, gives you a nice sense of 'home', but I just don't like the whole idea behind it.
If you go to university you are supposed to finish it yourself; it is not school. So why have your personal life 'being lived' in an organized way?
Of course I don't want to comment on people personally, not everybody is the same, and I know enough people that joined frats who are perfectly respectable people (and my idea of the lurkerlounge is that all of you are intelligent and respectable people). I just don't like the idea of forming societies that are there for, and to show that, you are able to go to uni.