re: Word on the street is ACACIA gone...

My biggest con is that many frat guys isolate themselves to other greeks. College should be a time where you challenge yourself and form your own set of ideals. Diversity in who you are around affects you beliefs and attitudes.

Groupthink is another con. wiki it if you don't know what I'm talking about.

Frats have many great aspects to them as well though! In a university as large as LSU, making connections without getting lost in the shuffle is difficult. Like everything in life you have to find balance.

My father in law is 60 years old and was a "fratboy" at LSU. He still sees his closest frat brothers nearly every week while hunting, fishing, golfing, or drinking. That connection is invaluable.

I'm a member of an adult organization that plays sports and socializes. I gladly pay dues because my experience with the club has paid me back tenfold through friendships, professional networking, and support in difficult life moments.

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Yes you paid to have friends frickboy. They don't let any random person off the street go in the frat house. All the mixers and parties yall throw, you get to go to them because YOU PAID TO JOIN THEIR FRAT.

You went to college as a loser, got mommy and daddy buy you some male friends. That's pathetic

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From a fellow GDI - please stop talking.

Eh, I know a lot of guys that were in fraternities, and around senior year, they stopped hanging around the house so much, and had a close group of friends. I guess they get less isolated the older they get.

Sorority girls all seem to get tired of it after sophomore year, and a lot of them just stop doing all of the required shite, or barely do anything but pay dues

People who bitch online like little girls in regards to fraternities come off as the biggest losers.

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ol yea I spent my first 2 years at Blinn.....big deal? Do you think that's where it ended for me? lol. Those days are all over now obviously, but at least I had the ability to get recruited and play D1 sports. Don't be mad you had to pay to have friends.

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TopHog1

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I was a D1 college athlete. We laugh at people from JUCO who say they were college athletes, because they try too hard on campus. Frat guys were cool though





ETA: We didnt actually laugh at JUCO guys. But we sure as well would have laughed at this try hard. He would have been the guy that would come up to us to tell us how good he was in JUCO and he is starting a "club" team and may later try out in the fall

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would have been the guy that would come up to us to tell us how good he was in JUCO and he is starting a "club" team and may later try out in the fall

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so we're talking lacrosse here?

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D1 college athlete.

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nope

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You talking about me?

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come at me

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I am making fun of people like top hog. He is the type of guy that plays club baseball and tells people he is an LSU baseball player

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I know

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ol yea I spent my first 2 years at Blinn.....big deal?

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SAT=850
ACT= 14

Blinn...

I bet spelling and long division kicked your arse.

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I was a walk on in college, and a miserable one at that, kept around, in retrospect, probably only to have enough warm bodies for the real studs to humiliate this is the only place I ever mention it because I don't want to demean what so many great guys did, that plus, my son came home from staying with my mother and they'd pumped him up with so much crap you'd have thought I was in the LSU Hof, still trying to decondition him on that

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I played a sport nobody gives a shite about so I second your feelings