<p>If you want to join a frat, do it. If you want to be a doctor, you either already know how to deal with having lots of stuff to do or need to learn, so don’t be worried that it will take up a lot of your time.</p>
<p>Of course, if you don’t really want to, then don’t. Fraternities are not the kind of thing that you should let yourself get peer pressured into (although they aren’t evil like some people seem to think either).</p>
<p>he already made his decision a few posts ago</p>
<p>reading comprehension ftw</p>
<p>It’s the internet, why would I avoid giving my opinion just because nobody cares? :D</p>
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<p>Hmm, are you actually required to drink? If that’s the case, that’s hazing - a practice that’s strictly prohibited at most campuses.</p>
<p>How much time committment also differs based on the organization you choose. So, you’ve seen how that chapter didn’t work out for you for the reasons you’ve stated. Maybe another chapter will. There are reasons why there are multiple houses.</p>
<p>Making you drinking is considered hazing? Well yea my first day of pledging they made me drink a ton of beer. I was hungover the whole weekend. I must have had 10-12 cans, and for me that’s a lot.</p>
<p>Making you do anything without your consent is hazing, the initiated brothers are just going to find a way to do it that they can easily weasel out of if someone were to investigate. E.g. “He didn’t have to drink all of that beer, we just asked him to,” “We encourage participation in bonding events but by no means require it,” etc.</p>
<p>just remember institutions do have personalities that will simply clash with it. if money isn’t an issue then you must find out for YOURSELF.</p>
<p>Yeah, I did join the first semester of college, and ended up with a 3.8 that term. Time management.</p>