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Should I join a fraternity?

I’m going to college next year at Penn State. I hope to join several clubs such as martial arts, football, and maybe golf. I’m not too much of a ‘team player’ type guy, but I do enjoy good parties and good friends. I plan to take my schoolwork very seriously though. Suggestions?

You can get a lot of versions of what fraternities are all about, good and bad. Sure, join if you want to be humiliated and paddled endlessly while blindfolded, or tied naked to a tree, or there are other stories about fraternities and lifelong friendship…but look…. this is a moderately serious choice you’re about to make, whether to pledge one or not, and which one.

Here’s where I probably get some negative votes, but….

Talk to your father, or someone your father’s age in your family about it. Get their mid-life perspective on fraternities. If no one in your family has a perspective, find someone you look up to, a teacher, a boss, someone you’d trust not to steer you wrong.

It’s not for everyone, but it is for some. Get your advice from someone old enough to have some judgment that knows you.

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