<p>yesss KDR thats it!</p>
<p>awesome parties</p>
<p>How much time do frat activities consume? I'd quite like to join, both for the social aspect and the accommodation, but I predict a heavy workload ahead for me.</p>
<p>It depends on the fraternity you join. Are you talking about pledging or being a brother in terms of time commitment.</p>
<p>Both .</p>
<p>Yeah, both, if you please.</p>
<p>well with pledging you can expect to have 2 or three nights a week used up on a regular basis (not necessarily weekend nights, and by night you could end up being occupied well past midnight). Some of the events are really fun and some aren't so much fun, but either way, it's always a good time retrospectively.</p>
<p>As a brother, I am under the impression that you don't really HAVE to do too much of anything, other than attend a few weekly meetings and eat dinner at the house a few times a week. There are lots of fun things you will want to do like play intramural sports and stuff. Also, one can take positions in the house like steward or historian or president, etc, which i would equate to having a small job. Usually there are rewards for such positions, like getting a better room in the house, etc. It is said that you get out of a fraternity what you put into it, so you can be in one and not do much and not gain much from it or spend a lot of time doing frat things and reap huge benefits from it.</p>
<p>That's for a more mainstream fraternity though. There are "academic fraternities" that are more likely to be like "mandatory study party tonight" rather than "mixer with Delta Gamma tonight." It all depends on what you're looking for. Obviously everyone is a student first, but for those who want to make their studies their life, then an academic fraternity is more of a fit than a more socially oriented fraternity.</p>