So, they're at pretty much every college campus in the country, save the more conservative, private, Christian ones. They're the ones that wanted to take the caste system of high school and continue it in college when the rest of us just wanted to transition into something that more resembled the real world. Worst of all, it's impossible to tell one from the next - they all look the same, bunch of crazy clones.
Aka, the Greeks.
Now, I have friends that are Greeks. And yes, spare me the lecture, I know it's not all supposed to be about drinking and hooking up with your "brothers" and "sisters," and that they're not all the same. But seriously, a lot of them are the same. I just about ran over eight million of them in the parking lot at Towers(my dorm) getting off of a school bus. (It makes me laugh that they use buses.) But here are my main problems with the Greek system:
1) It's totally class-ist. You can't pay, you don't get in, end of story. Lots of college students are fighting tooth and nail just to get through schooling, let alone pay hundreds of dollars a year in fraternity or sorority dues.
2) It's too "high school." There's this whole system of ranking for who's better than who else. Everyone at SEMO knows that Alpha Delta Pi is "on top," Tri-Delta is the "slutty" sorority, Alpha Xi Delta is "old news" and the Tri-Sigmas "didn't get in anywhere else." Gamma Phi Beta is the "nice and smart" sorority, and Alpha Chi Omega...well, I couldn't even remember their name, so that tells you about them, lol.
3) And you don't even want to get into the dynamics of fraternities. It's way worse.
4) I hate meeting someone, and then seeing him or her in a Greek group and not even being able to pick out the person that I met.
5) Even though the lifestyle isn't necessarily about the drinking and sleeping around, I feel like it's accepted and encouraged in those circles. Not cool.
End of rant #2, because, well, I have a headache. New entry soon.
~Kassius~
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