No, it's just me saying-how did you not catch everything that I said in my comment to NOT be serious. I really actually want him to kill himself. This is just one big mess of not understanding me being facetious. I find that off putting (and by that I mean revolting), and i don't think that lack of diversity does anything to help the outside perception of greek life at tamu.īasically, a lot of the negative perception of greek life stems from perceived discrepancies between the values of the a&m community as a whole and the values of the greek community, if i had to guess. Here however, the frats are basically all white, and 2 guys i know who served as rush chairs for their houses actually met with resistance when they tried to take black kids or whatever. Not that we'd affirmative action minority kids in, but if a guy is cool/handsome/whatever other criteria you're looking for, not being white wouldn't hurt you (being athletic and black would actually help). Our pledge classes tended to actually reflect the racial demographics, with a majority of white guys fleshed out with a couple asians, black bros, and whoever else was cool in a given pledge class. We didn't have that so much out west, and also actually had other races in the frats. Fratters here tend to look the same, and often seem to have a little dress code or uniform thing goin on. One difference I find kinda funny, coming from a west coast school, is that the greeks here are much more homogenous than what I was used to. I think a lot of people outside greek life don't understand the depth of relationships formed during pledging. For me, it would've been similar to that 'rent-a-friend' perception people had, because I wouldn't have had the deep bonds formed during pledging. Yea, adding to this, I transferred from another school where I was Greek but didn't affiliate here, because I wouldn't have had a pledge class. It's not like A&M has a monopoly on that. I didn't even click with Greek life at UT since I was active in other student organizations. In the end, it's really just another memorable American university life. But in general, it was just as easy to make friends and do things at UT just like at A&M, and I still don't see what's so different about the campus culture between both campuses. Also having attended college in East Asia for a couple years, campus life between UT and A&M are much closer than people actually realize. I guess I see things differently because my first two bachelor degrees were at UT (one science, one engineering) and I lived in Austin for a decade before coming to A&M to do my PhD (spent over half a decade here working on it), so I have some pretty good perspective of actual campus life between both campuses. It was not really something I wanted to be a part of. I grew up around Austin, and the campus culture is very different there. You do you man, as long as you’re growing as a person and like how your life is going keep doing that. Tuesday teas at Mad Hatters was one of my favorite things in the world, but I couldn’t stand the place most weekend nights. I liked going to the bars after class and leaving before it got stupidly crowded. Life is too short to hate people for no reason. Treat people with respect, do your own thing. The people I grew close with were not ones who could typically go out and drop 200$ on a Thursday at Northgate and then afford an extra rent payment in dues to have the privilege of going to a date party on Friday. I guess one of the biggest issues I had with fraternities on campus was the fact that I fell in love with A&M because of its lack of entitlement. I came from a very entitled neighborhood growing up, and it was something that I was trying to leave behind, and there were plenty of other organizations that existed to provide the same type of camaraderie. I tried to rush at the beginning, but there were so many people who were still just living off of daddy’s money and laughing about it that it rubbed me the wrong way. The main reason I never really got along with fraternities while I was at A&M was because they embodied pretty much every reason why I did not go to t.u.
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