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i remember when i first heard about american college fraternities as a teen and was like well i must be missing something culturally there must be more there that isnt just the evil stuff but then i learned no its pretty much just the evil stuff

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i went to a small engineering school so the fratenerity culture was a bit different. One just made it a thing to put thermite on cafeteria trays and smelt them into the sidewalk. but yeah i never saw the point other than housing. you can just, be friends with people, why do you need to join a club?

When I was in college they suspended the entirety of Greek life for a full year cause one of the frats killed a kid. During the investigation they found a DIFFERENT frat was running a cocaine trafficking ring. Friends don’t let friends join Greek life

There are some non-residential ones that are basically just pre-professional networking like a club for all the dental students or whatever but yeah the least evil residential ones are weird and the most evil ones are basically demonic

they occupy the same spot in my mind as the KKK and the masons and I'm sure it's like partially the exaggerated media depiction of them but also it feels like they probably are not THAT far apart in nature

one of my freshman students years ago pledged at a greek house and to haze him they made him to drink a lethal dose of pure grain alcohol and then left him by himself overnight. he died there. do not feel the need to give them the benefit of the doubt

the final word on this secret society larper shit is in twin peaks when the cops are like something serious is going down... we have to call the bookhouse boys... and then they cut to. literally the same cops but in a different building now and they are like we are no longer bound by the law lmao

Everyone on my college dorm floor became best friends, and I feel like we basically got the perks of a frat like thing without the insanity.

We had LAN parties! And nerf wars. And rented a conference room to give very dumb speeches. And held an event to test all the things we’d been told not to microwave. And made waffles for people who had finals before the dining hall opened. It was so wholesome.

Someone found a microwave at a thrift store, and we ran an extension cord out a window and stood at a safe(?) distance. Then we put objects such as CDs, lightbulbs, forks, etc into the microwave for a few seconds at a time to see what would happen. The bulb was the best, it did a glowy plasma thing.