You know what happens in college if you do nothing but sit in your dorm room and study, instead of partying and making friends? you go crazy! look at the kids causing school violence in both highschools and colleges across the US.
I was in a fraternity and it gave me the opportunity to do a lot of things that no other students could do, including fraternity intramurals, Greek Week, Carnival Week, meet girls, meet people.
If you don't join a greek organization (social or professional), what are you going to put on your resume?? When you go for a job interview, and you are asked if you have leadership abilities, or how you cope with people who disagree with you, and you respond "I sat in my dorm all day, every day", you're not going to have a chance at that job. Being in a fraternity provides young adults with a lot of different life-long and life-enhancing experiences. Managing money, working as a team, working as an individual, overcoming timidness.
Also, at all your schools...who cleans up your football stadiums after games? - Greek life does. I also guarantee they are forced to do X amount of community service hours every semester to stay active. It's also a proven fact that over 60% of alumni donations come from ex-greek life members. Colleges know how much the Greek system helps them every year. If it weren't for the Greek system, the campuses would be dirty and have trash all over them, all year round. If Greek life didn't help colleges and universities, the colleges and universities would have gotten rid of them LONG LONG ago.
To top it all off...something like 39 of the US presidents were in fraternities. 75% of the US Senate were in fraternities, and 95% of the CEO's of Fortune 500 companies.
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ProtectYaNeck
16 years ago
I'm not in a fraternity, but I have friends who are and I agree that being a part of Greek life is not a negative thing. It helps you gain connections, which is a very overlooked part of finding a job after school. Some of my friends actually improved academically after they joined a greek organization, then again a few of them are on probation right now. Greek life can be a very positive thing. I don't plan on joining a fraternity, but Greek life gets a bad rap by ignorant people.
Although, I disagree about the whole resume thing, there a ton of things at school that you can list on a resume.
Anyway, to get back on track, it's quite obvious if you do to much of anything in college it can have negative consequences. Whether it's drinking to much, playing poker to much, going to the gym to much, playing video games to much, napping to much..etc. Even studying all the time can have a negative effect on your social life. How you interact socially plays a huge role in your future. College is about balancing your social life, school, hobbies, and other things.
The movie College obviously only covers one aspect of college, but that aspect seems to fill more seats more than any other thing you'd do in college.
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