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Um, how exactly is 35% “not really that high at all?”</p>
<p>Are you a freshman (judging by your age in your profile)? Ok, sure everyone can go to section parties first semester, but frats literally throw those SPECIFICALLY for freshmen as a recruitment strategy. There pretty much aren’t any open parties second semester. Unless you join a frat or stay REALLY good friends with several members (the likelihood of which diminishes when they start pledging), you won’t be going to very many frat parties, and when you do, it’ll be as an outsider looking in.</p>
<p>Does it mean anything to you that “GDIs” (god damn independents) is an insult that has become standard vernacular among the Greeks?</p>
<p>I’m not bitter about this or anything. I’m not an independent, and I do have a lot of great friends at Duke, but I know for a fact that not everyone is so lucky in finding their niche as it seems they should be.</p>