Frat Guys

[NHB7]

Any frat guys in here?!

No offense, but every frat guy I ever met seems lame as hell.

But anyone in here have experience in a frat? Did you enjoy it?

Or experience meeting people in a frat?

 

[FierceRedBelt]

I know a guy who was president of a fraternity at a state university and he's pretty down to earth and dare I say boring.

Not douchey at all though.

 

[JSN]

How will we know if they're frat guys if we can't do the handshake, bro?

 

[Cptn1NSAN0]

Went to a few frat parties when I lived in Boulder a few years ago and they were all lame as hell indeed. Just a bunch of rich entitled dickweeds, at least the ones I met. You can meet chicks who are just as hot and way easier at bars or house parties if you are young enough.

 

[I Am Legion]

I was in a frat. In college it was partying, helping each other get jobs, living together, helping with papers, getting laid. Now 20 years later they are life long friends who network with each other for opportunities. We are doctors, lawyers, cops, car salesman, business owners, executives, real estate, insurance etc... Good to have the connections. We weren't rich kid snobs like in the movies.

 

[NHB7]

I was in a frat. In college it was partying, helping each other get jobs, living together, helping with papers, getting laid. Now 20 years later they are life long friends who network with each other for opportunities. We are doctors, lawyers, cops, car salesman, business owners, executives, real estate, insurance etc... Good to have the connections. We weren't rich kid snobs like in the movies.

Cool. Thanks for sharing. I'm sure there are some decent frat guys. But damned if the ones I met almost all seemed stereotypically Douchey.

 

[usfbrah]

I've met a few. They seemed like cool people. Most just told me there in it for the networking opportunity

 

[Skip Reming]

I was in a frat and it was the best thing I did in college. I was exchequer, pledge master, assistant pledge master, and did a few chairs. We won the all sports trophy 3 times while I was there.

So, basically you are joining a group of guys like yourself and have sports to play, various functions, mixers with sororities, you get to know a ton of people, and many of my frat bros I am still really close to after being out of college for over a decade.

and to put the buying friends thing to rest, as stated i was the exchequer and most of the dues went to paying insurance to national. The rest of the money went back into things like mixers and shit, but every frat worth a shit has bar nights where they get a cut of the door and this money goes back into having fun. So you are making more than you are putting into dues easily.

It is very easy to kind of drift through college, but being in a frat it is more like you are part of campus life.

and yes, there are a ton of asshole frats for sure and my frat was not like any other. it is horrible when a different chapter of your national frat comes to your school and they suck. ugh.

 

[Jkaylor]

TS be honest you wouldn't even say that frat guys all seem lame and then ask how it was if you didn't wish, deep down, that you were in a frat.

 

[BisexualMMA]

I chose not be in a frat but I knew plenty of people that were. Some of them were cool guys but whenever a bunch of them would get together and frat out, they would all kind of sink to the lowest common denominator. There were always a few real assholes in the group that would drag the whole thing into the mud.

I was too busy to make that kind of stuff an actual priority in my life. It wasn't too difficult to find a party without having formal obligations tied to the whole experience.

 

[Skip Reming]

I chose not be in a frat

that's one way to say it
another way would be because you did not get a bid

 

[BisexualMMA]

that's one way to say it
another way would be because you did not get a bid

I suppose that's one way to read it. I took a look, and thought to myself, I can make my own schedule and friends and drink when I want and party when I want...or I can have it made for me in a formal hierarchy of friends, and I just decided to do things my own way and hang out with frat friends when it worked for my schedule. I ended up anchoring boat races as a ringer more than once regardless.

It was just nice to know that when 2am rolled around on a weeknight, I was free to go home and sleep if I wanted, rather than be obligated to run around and engage in public mischief and petty crime.

For example, one night I ducked out and went home with my girlfriend at maybe 1 am. The next day, I'm talking to a couple of my friends who were in that frat I was hanging out with and they're going on about this gang bang they had with some sorority girl where it was maybe ten of their frat bros and this one girl. I was just thinking to myself...cool, I banged a chick last night and didn't have to wait for nine other guys to finish up first.

 

[Mondo Freaks]

Was in one at USD. Its not like the ones in movies. Our school had a no hazing policy and no on-campus houses. Whenever we had parties, we could not attach our names to it. We had mixers with other sororities which is always fun. You had to pre-party before the dance because no alcohol was permitted.

We had a mix of ROTC, engineers, business majors, theater majors, stoners, crew, rugby guys and surfers. However I heard that our fraternity at other campuses did the whole hazing and hardcore party stuff.

We did a lot of community service and a lot of the time we just hung at the beach and had bbq and surfed. You really do make life long bonds.

 

[Reyesnuthugr]

1 Actually cool people are low in supply on this Earth and in virtually any demographic

2 College Fraternity Organizations have a much higher demand for cool bros than can be possibly met from the reserves of its own current list of male students

3 Quality of Frats and frat bros CANNOT be assured to even the smallest degree of standard, due to severe lack of quality human resources, resulting in lack of confidence on the part of potential investors/applicants

4 MOST frats will suck as those who run and join them will predictably fail quality standards

5 Potential (somewhat to very cool) enlistees will often recognize this general observable lack of quality, will determine such a trend, and will not feel an obligation to even so much as attempt a bid into the estate

6 Without the ability to interest many 'somewhat to very' cool level students, college fraternities will, in a cyclical manner, suffer yet further in their abilities to draw quality individuals into membership, and will continue to obtain a low federal grade of coolness credit level, perpetually damaging its reputation to potential applicants



What's so hard about that?

 

[Sampsonsimpson]

I've met a few. They seemed like cool people. Most just told me there in it for the networking opportunity

They joined for the networking opportunity, stayed for the butt stuff.

 

[Te Huna Matata]

I was in a frat. In college it was partying, helping each other get jobs, living together, helping with papers, getting laid. Now 20 years later they are life long friends who network with each other for opportunities. We are doctors, lawyers, cops, car salesman, business owners, executives, real estate, insurance etc... Good to have the connections. We weren't rich kid snobs like in the movies.

I was in a frat and it was the best thing I did in college. I was exchequer, pledge master, assistant pledge master, and did a few chairs. We won the all sports trophy 3 times while I was there.

So, basically you are joining a group of guys like yourself and have sports to play, various functions, mixers with sororities, you get to know a ton of people, and many of my frat bros I am still really close to after being out of college for over a decade.

and to put the buying friends thing to rest, as stated i was the exchequer and most of the dues went to paying insurance to national. The rest of the money went back into things like mixers and shit, but every frat worth a shit has bar nights where they get a cut of the door and this money goes back into having fun. So you are making more than you are putting into dues easily.

It is very easy to kind of drift through college, but being in a frat it is more like you are part of campus life.

and yes, there are a ton of asshole frats for sure and my frat was not like any other. it is horrible when a different chapter of your national frat comes to your school and they suck. ugh.

These 2 basically sum up my experience. I was in one in college. My school was around 30% Greek so it was very common. There were houses that had a type whether it be the nerds, misfits, rich kids, etc. but on the whole, most were just decent groups of guys. My 2 best friends in the world were guys I pledged with.

 

[IIIIIIII]

I've met a few. They seemed like cool people. Most just told me there in it for the networking opportunity

and that is REALLY important in today's economy. most folks hired today had past connections with someone in the hiring company. people want to work with people they know and/or like, and that plays a bigger role in being hired than sheer knowledge does.

 

[SammyPops]

I readfrat as fat. would have been better

 

[Flemmy Stardust]

I haven't had to think about these guys in years.

What do they look like now? It was a lot of trucker hats and sandals in my day. Popped collar polo shirts.

I know people that were in frats that are cool. Some of my best friends even, but i always thought it was an excessively douchey part of being 18-23

 

[usfbrah]

and that is REALLY important in today's economy. most folks hired today had past connections with someone in the hiring company. people want to work with people they know and/or like, and that plays a bigger role in being hired than sheer knowledge does.

It's not what you know, it's who you know