what are the advantages of having been in a fraternity?

Question

Does it give you any privledges in later life?

Answer 1

You can make lifelong friends, or lifelong enemies in a fraternity. You will be able to capitalize on your friendship to help you with your career path, or social status.

However, if you provoke everybody in the fraternity, you will reap the whirlwind.

The wild card: Fraternity life will take its toll on your grades, your relationships with women (there is a group sex mentality that is pervasive in some fraternities). Fraternity hazing can get you killed or permanently disabled. Alcohol consuption can or will lead to phyiscal problems, mental problems, or put you in jail.

Drug abuse in fraternity life can get you thrown in prison.

In a fraternity, you will be forced to choose to be your own man, or to submit to the will of the mob. When I chose to be my own man, I alienated myself from the rest of the mob, and thus, was nearly blackballed and subsequently quit at the end of the next semester.

I have never heard from the guys, and never heard from them after I walked out of the meeting (there were elections that night and the VP that was elected and I did not get along. He was going to be President the next year).

In the 20+ years I have been out of college, I have only come across two members. First: The first guy I met and I were in the same pledge class and we got along. He was working in a mens store and I was buying socks.

The second guy I met was the office manager of a company that I was interviewing with about 7 years post graduation. He and I did not get along (he hazed me and the rest of the guys during hell week. I was defiant, let him know that I thought he was out of line, and he and I NEVER got along after that). Anyway, when I saw him there, I knew the interview was over. I did not get the job and I am not sure I would have worked for him anyway as he was a huge pothead in college (I was not). He has since moved on and I do not know where he is now.

So, it can go either way. You would have to make your advantages being in a fraternity.

Answer 2

I join to meet new people and make new friends. Before the fraternity I was involved with 3 major clubs on my college campus and one I help start from scratch, so my reason was that i didn't have any friends, I wanted more. Also the opprotunities of brotherhood and business connections. I would be lying if the socail scene didn't cross my mind as well. Academics were a big part alot of my borthers are economic majors like myself and I can ask them for help when ever. Finally I love the community service, I am my fraternities community service chair

Priviledges in later life are possible in the business work with the networking having brothers accross the nation. Plus if a employer sees that you went greek and they did the same you have a similar bond