Should I join a fraternity?

Agreed.

If you want me to make non stop fun of you, be my guest.

My instinctual resentment of fraternities and sororities springs from the dues-paying. I was too poor to afford them, so I resented them.

(I resented a lot of things.)

+ I have no idea what I'm talking about.....I mean 1.....I mean......no, I have no idea what I'm talking about.

I went to a large state school that had a lot of fraternities, although I never joined one myself. I think the negative stereotype about fraternities is generally incorrect. I went to a lot of fraternity parties because, in general, they usually threw the best ones. I met some assholes who were brothers but I also met some really cool guys. Just like I met a lot of non-fraternity folks who were assholes and just as many that were nice. My own brother was in a fraternity and he's one of the most intelligent, individualistic people I know.
Fraternities are not all the same. I went to parties at ones that were co-ed and very artsty and slackerish and full of stoners and some that were all jocks.

the only thing I can say I have against fraternities is the hazing. my freshman year of college (I went to Rutgers) a pledge drank himself to death in a hazing incident. i'd hate to be that kid's parents. i have no idea how bad pledges get treated when they're being hazed (i know it varies from fraternity to fraternity) but I've heard some get pretty rough,

"Hmm... I want people to realize that some guys in frats are reasonable, intelligent and level-headed, how should I go about that? Got it! I'll act like a prissy little cunt. Wile E. Coyote: Super Genius."

In Cash's defense he posted two very well thought out posts before this one. Alas, certain parties continued to take very cheap shots at the subject. A man can only take so much you know?

I love it when people site themselves as a source. I'm going to do that all the time now. Cause I'm a wicked good source too, see?

Also, back on-topic, my school is just a humble professional science school (I can't tell you, the privacy, the privacy) but we have frats as well, although more in the realm of the Tri-Lams then Animal House. The guy frat is Kappa Psi or something and the greek letters look like KY. I'm not shitting you.

Ha ha, college.

Seriously! You guys think you can just pay for an education?!

Ma'am, you're my hero.

I saw a visiting "brother" from another school hit golf balls at a candlelight vigil for battered women.
Then I saw our president speak to the collected fraternity telling us to keep it quiet and not report it to the college disciplinary committee (if there is one thing on this earth I will take to my grave as a regret, it is buckling to peer pressure in that instance.)
I've been pressured to quit organizations that the brothers thought didn't reflect well on the frat, and then confronted several times by "brothers" who didn't approve of the way I dressed.
I've seen "brothers" blatantly turn away people I invited to frat parties by openly stating that the party was to meet chicks - dues -> party -> meet chicks -> looks a lot like paying for friends to me.

And all that is after, as I said earlier, I helped start the frat and actively tried to prevent admitting assholes.

So, if you hit the jackpot and somehow got a group of non-dickheads, then good for you. But don't pretend that the bad reputation is fabricated by the media, because it's fucking dead on accurate from my experience.

yes and i pray that the education pays off...

I found out that it was a colossal waste of my money.
But of course I was an art major.

Run along, junior.

No Greek system at my college. We had one national social fraternity that tried way too hard to emulate the TV/film frat stereotypes. They sucked.

If I had gone to a large school, I may have considered a fraternity.

Sure thing, gramps.