<p>A quick question for all those who have already pledged. Just how bad was your pledging process?</p>
<p>You sound like you should just join SigEp.</p>
<p>If you have to ask, you wouldn't make it through elsewhere.</p>
<p>It's really not bad at all. Most of what you hear against joining or how brutal the process is, be it here or elsewhere, stems from ignorant stereotypes by people with no basis for discussion. </p>
<p>There is a time commitment involved but how much time really depends on how involved the chapter is in it's own functionality. At the very most, the time needed will be equivilent to taking another class, only a class you wont find reasons not to go to.</p>
<p>For what it's worth, I'm in charge of my chapter's New Member Education Program. If you have any other questions just let me know, either here or in the PM mode.</p>
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<p>Also, the worse the pledge, the more you'll enjoy the frat!</p>
<p>(It's true... overall, everything else controlled, you will enjoy that for which you suffered more than that for which you did not suffer--the accomplishment changes your psychological perception)</p>
<p>I actually somewhat miss being a pledge, it was a lot of fun.</p>
<p>Apumic, i don't really agree with you, but I have somewhere to be at 7, so i'll have to get into detail later.</p>
<p>Pledge term was fun. You have to do a lot of things in most cases, as it is a time commitment, and nearly all houses haze in some form, but it's fun and brings you closer to your class.</p>
<p>"hazing" and I put that in air quotes on purpose is very campus specific. If you want to take a very board definition that no pledge should have to do something an active doesn't, then yes, 99.9999% of all fraternity chapters haze. However, there are some schools where all the worst possible things imaginable happen. At others, it's constructive stuff, that once you never have to do it again, you're pleased, but when you're doing it, it's not that big of deal.</p>
<p>GUnot, by "it" do you mean "in"? An example of one thing we did during pledging (and one I can share since it was extremely public) was that we had to learn two songs to peform a capella, and then one night we went to the sorority houses and various other campus hotspots and performed. Easily one of the best nights I had last year.</p>
<p>Have you heard the story of the goat?</p>
<p>Serenading sororities is fun, and yes all goat related stories are TRUE. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.</p>
<p>It really depends on the exact frat... At my school, some of the frats just make you memorize a lot of random facts about founders and stuff and recite it back at the actives; some dress their guys up in tutus and stand them around the main quad; others make the guys drink a 24 pack in 24 hours or (supposedly.... i'm a girl, so i don't really know first-hand) make them strip and do all kinds of gross stuff. One frat I know made the pledges hide from the actives for 3 days--if an active found any of them, the pledge would have to be the active's "slave" for the rest of the 3 days. Let's just say there were a lot of frantic freshmen and a lot of actives banging down doors at 4 in the morning...</p>
<p>Different chapters of the same frat do different things, and it's hard to generalize. Your best bet is to make friends with some of the guys who've pledged in the past and get them to tell you some of their stories. Good luck rushing!</p>