[thanksgivingmom]

The president of our school always REALLY pushed greek life. He said that you're not getting a full education if you just show up to class and go home. He was all about sports, frats, clubs, the whole experience....so I totally get the pushing for involvement in all areas.

Also, and I know this sounds CRAZY...but if you're strong and want to hold your ground, there's a lot of good you can do too....our frats and sororities were super philanthropic, two girls were on safe driver duty every Thursday-Saturday night to go pick up other girls if needed, there were people who had taken courses before you that would help you study, all kinds of stuff that WERE really good. And for my group, after the actual final initiation, most of the girls backed off (and it was that way for the frats too, at least on my campus). In the end, for ME, I just couldn't deal with the whole "we're mean to you until we're officially sisters, but then we're BFF, except we still want you to dump your bf and date a greek, we're just going to be nicer about it." I thought it was lame and left.

I sure hope they lay off J soon....or I might just have to make a trip south and kick some frat boy butt.