<------- Alpha Tau Omega

Just went through rush and pledged because my friend/roomate didn't want to do it alone. Had some pretty good times. Drank way too much. About half of my frat brothers were total jerks. If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn't.

Wow---the hyperbole and stereotyping is almost overwhelming in here.

I was a Sigma Chi in college. Unlike KPH's experience, the small (1300 students) liberal arts college that I attended (Whitman College) was split just about 50/50 between Greek/indy, which likely skewed the experience a bit. Overall, I thought it was the right choice for me, and would do the same again. Not all fraternity men are "cretins".

This was still fun for you after the first time?

Fuck no.

yes yes yes yes. a thousand times yes. this whole 80's preppy look for hip-hop kids and emo kids alike makes me want to grab them by their turned-up collar and shake some damn sense into them (especially the fucking sweat band on the forearm scenesters).

and i kinda have the same story as todd and sketch. did it for a couple years--seemed important at the time--probably wouldn't do it again--probably wouldn't have stuck with it (or done it in the first place) if my folks didn't spot me the money in the first place. not embarrassed about it, y'know live and learn.

And I doubt you are alarmed.

Not particularly. Maybe a little surprised, but not really.

never considered it being in a city with lots to do, had some good friends in SAE, TKE and some other one Chi Psi or something from other schools and they had some decent friends, no judgement here just never had a reason, a few friends and I did have a running joke of our own, TTA, "The Three Amigos" when frats were recruiting quite heavily freshman year.

uh, i don't think there were any sororities that would take somone as socially inept, weird and 'un-conventional' as i was when attending university--thankfully!

i did use to walk realllly fast by the frat row houses as i was scared i'd be ridiculed by boys with thick necks and backwards baseball caps. having said that, i was *once* invited to a frat party by a non-stereotypcial cute-ish frat boy and even went but then, at the party, he only smiled and said hi and walked on and so i just stood next to the keg for free beer and left wondering why he invited me in the first place (maybe i was part of their plan for "diversity" or one of their required "good deeds" via social outreach?)

Nope - ALL of the fraternities at school (Univ. of IL - one of the biggest fraternity systems in the nation) were completely obnoxious and retarded. In the first week of school, the frat across the street shot a girl (<-- just walking down the street, minding her own business) in the face with a pellet gun because they "thought it would be funny." That pretty much sums it up.

lol...

This is akin to someone in France talking about how obnoxious Americans are, and telling a story of how once an American received a bad meal and threw table on the ground and stormed out, finally proclaiming that 'that about sums up Americans.'

I highly doubt you had a chance to visit every fraternity at Univ. of IL, and it seems as though you are making a big generalization based upon the bad actions of a few.

I got hired as the cook for Phi Kappa Theta at CWRU. Every single guy in that house was smart, nice, socially conscious... I ended up joining. I'm still friends with many of them. They do alot of community service. They drink a fair share. They don't really get alot of pussy, but it's an engineering school, so what are you gonna do, right?

And we fucking owned the radio station and almost no one had bad taste in music. We played alot of volleyball, and grilled out, and would go on crazy road trips (gee, how long would it take to drive around lake erie?), and alot of us were members of the various honors fraternities and the service fraternity. We were good kids, conscientious, studious, at times gluttonous...

It was a way easier place to study and feel at home than the dorms which were insanely raucous and debaucherous. Go figure.

-Phil

top gun.

small group of guys, If I had gone to a big school like madison I seriously doubt I would have joined anything.

we played a lot of bocce ball.

<------- Sigma Chi

Absolutely no regrets whatsoever. Was and continues to be a great thing for me.

Me too. What school?

How does the secret handshake translate on a messageboard?

Delta Omega chapter... University of Tulsa How about yourself?

Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.