I recently just setup my classes to start school in August. Yet I feel like my current schedule might conflict with social events. I have mostly morning classes. Math from 8-8:50 am m w f, English Monday 11-12:15 and some required class Tuesday 11-12. Anyways I have 2 evening classes from 8-9:15 pm science on Tuesday and Thursday and Econ Monday and Wednesday. I am going to be joining a fraternity and I was wondering if this schedule will conflict with those events as well as other social events.
The Greek Social Life = Thursday, Friday, or Saturday night.
Although, not every member participates in every event. However, every organization is different, so I’d ask your fraternity president about your schedule and see what he says.
That schedule sounds absolutely terrible. If you still have an option, I would try to move the night classes to earlier in the day
Honestly if your living on campus I don’t think you will enjoy having a night class 4 nights a week. I don’t know about Greek life but there are often other campus activities at night. If you can switch at least one of them I think you will end of liking it better but that is just a guess. We used to have 10pm activities to accommodate various schedules so you can ask about that as well.
Update: I was able to change my economics to earlier in the day. 2:00-3:15 on Monday and Wednesday, I got lucky and saw one spot open up. Now I am on the waitlist for a Tuesday and Thursday science from 3:30 to 4:45 Tuesday and Thursday. hopefully it will open up.
I personally wouldn’t take evening classes, but that is my personal preference. It is a good time to relax and unwind, or even participate in clubs/hang out with friends. I wouldn’t want another class to get in the way of that.
My S took a couple of night classes in college (once to get a better prof., once because it was the only time the class was offered) – it wasn’t ideal but he made it work.
My first semester of school I took 1 night class that was on Monday’s and Wednesdays. I also rushed and joined a Fraternity. It didn’t interfere too much but I learned in a short time that I hated night classes. I also had a lot of late afternoon classes and I quickly found out those were the ones that interfered the most with fraternity activities.
If I had to have a night class or lab I tried to make those be Wednesdays as they seemed to conflict the least but in general I learned quickly that anything that started to go past 4pm started to become a hassle. The afternoon classes got in the way of intramural sports and some of our volunteer activities we did so I tried not to go past 3pm if I could help it.
Also, factor in time to go through rush. Most of those events for me at least were all in the evening.
I liked night classes, but only took 1 at a time (either one night or two). One was a film class so I watched a film one night and discussed it the next. I took morning classes so I could work in the afternoon. As I got more into my major, the classes were all T-Th, so I’d have them back to back, and very few classes on M-W-F.
You’ll find what works for you, but having one class on Fridays? Hmm, don’t be tempted to skip it.
@dcolosi Do you think my now hopefully changed science 3:30 -4:45 (on the waitlist rn) on tuesday and thursday will interfere with fraternity activities? My schedule is as follows:
Monday: Math, 8-8:50 am
English 11am-12:15pm
Econ 2-3:15pm
Tuesday:
seminar, 9:30 to 10:45 am
Science 3:30 to 4:45
Wednesday:
Math 8-8:50am
Econ 2-3:15
Thursday: Seminar 9:30 to 10:45am
science 3:30 to 4:45pm
Friday:
Math 8-8:50am
I had to do a few night classes over my time at unversity, but not more than once class per week. All the other posters are right in that you’ll miss out on a lot of social events and/or student orgs. Keep an eye out for earlier classes as I’m sure some will pop-up once the semester gets closer.
@Obaeez it really just depends on the school and the fraternity. We used to do our practices for flag football and softball in the afternoons and then usually if we had events with sororities we would have planning and other events in the afternoons. I think you would be fine for the first semester and then just use that to figure out what you want for the future semesters.
Even if there aren’t events, its still the aspect of just hanging with the guy’s. Almost every night guy’s would just be hanging out talking or goofing around. It’s just general bonding time in the evenings, even if its just hanging out watching Monday Night football or going to dinner together. During the day, in our student union we had an area where all the Greeks hung out. All the fraternities had their own table they would gravitate to and guys would just come and go between classes. Our houses were all off-campus so during the day we hung out at the union and in the evenings we hung out at the house.
My D is in a Sorority and I know that she had events in the afternoons as well but having a scheduled class or test was considered an excused absence so there wasn’t any negative from missing other than the fun of the event.
Our Chapter meetings were always on Sunday evening and my D’s sorority chapter meetings are the same. I think she said some of the other sororities do have Chapter on Monday nights so that would be the only other thing you have to be aware when scheduling.
Of course, all this only matters if you actually get a bid to join a fraternity. Not sure what school you are going to but you still have to be asked to join so.