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= F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
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That Social Thang
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Yet another of these damned files. Bear with me as I am in a
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wierd mood yet again. I sat back in class today and pondered the whole
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social scheme that I am forced to participate in. You are too, by the
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way. Each and every one of us must be a part of a caste system of sorts
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where each person fits neatly into a group whether they know/like it or
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not. I think that I fit into the "nobody" or "geek" class myself. Of
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course I didn't put myself there but oh well. Its just your life. (And I
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will deal with the other groups later on in some other file.)
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When I say it is your life I mean that later, people will look
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back at what you have done, who you have been affiliated with, and such.
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Were you a boy/girl scout? Were you part of a fraternity/sorority? You
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may think that is trivial right now but it isn't. If you were an Eagle
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Scout then your odds of being hired go up. If you are part of a fraternity
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then your odds go up for being hired. Don't ask me to prove that, I have
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read that shit in other magazines at one time or another. Anyway, I want
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to deal with fraternities and sororities right now.
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-(If I refer to a frat it means fraternity OR sorority OR both)-
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A frat is a social group. An elite clique of people that get
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together every so often and do shit with/to each other or whatnot. First,
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You get to go through some sort of initiation. These are just a few things
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I have heard that a frat will make you do as part of that.
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-Carry a plant around for a week, EVERYWHERE you go. Can't let
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it die.
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-Get handcuffed to a girl, then eat a huge meal full of some
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kind of laxative. The handcuffs will be removed 2 days later.
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-When walking/driving you can't touch anything red.
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-Can't associate with certain people.
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-Can't talk(literally) to any non-frat type person.
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Basically shit like that. Ok. So what does this do? Is this mental
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discipline? If so why not test them over something, make them memorize
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something. This stuff is embarassing. Really nothing else to it when it all
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comes down to it. I ask why these frat people embarass future members...is
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it because when they become full memebers they won't have to be worried about
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being made fun of? Or are they getting them used to what many people will
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think of them? I say it is the latter. Frats are geared toward the "elite"
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of todays society. They consist of the "smart", the rich, or those with
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the right parents. You can buy your way into a frat, earn your way in,
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or have your parents get you into the same one they were in. So what is
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the point of it all really? I have seen signs that say a frat will increase
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your grades, help you meet lots of new and interesting people, get job
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experience, and loads of other bullshit that I don't exactly buy.
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If you join one you definitely meet a lot of new people, no doubt
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about that. What else do you do? You go to swell mixers with specific other
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frats and sororities. So you have this group of people that you hang out with
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and that is cool and everything. But if you hang out with other people
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then you run the risk of being an outcast or not as well liked by your
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fellow frat brothers. What else....you get to set fashion trends. What you
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wear or dress like or appear as can set a new trend before you even change
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clothes again. One person in your frat does it, next a brother is doing it,
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then a slight change and a sorority is doing it, then the rest of the frats
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are doing it, and you have just set a trend. Whoopty fuckin' doo sez me.
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Ok. So you have all these frats, or elite groups of snobs in most cases.
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Seems that being a snob is a pre-requisite to being a frat member. Anyway,
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you have all these frats that will only mix with certain other frats. They
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usually won't socialize with other frats and usually not with GDIs (God
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Damn Independents). Why don't they mix with all these other people? Are they
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scared? I think so. I think they are scared to mix with all the other people
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they so despise because they will realize that all these other people are
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a lot like them, have some common views, or they are actually better than
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them. Seems to me that is the whole point of them.
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Look at who is in a frat. You usually have really popular people. They
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were popular in high school, they were popular outside of high school, and
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they are generally popular in college. They have quite a few friends, many
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friends of the opposite sex, etc. So why do they join these frats? Seems to
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me that all those people in high school that had a hard time getting friends
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or getting a date should be in a frat. That way they are guaranteed friends,
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guaranteed a social life, and stuff. These are the people that need these
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socially elite groups.
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Next, how bout these mixers. Each mixer has a specific theme, and in
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many cases they are potentially offensive to a minority group, whether it is
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a racial minority or "ethical" minority. Recently here at Texas Tech, there
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was a mixer called "Party in the Projects". This mixer basically made fun
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of black people and it caused a whole lot of "racial tension" on the campus,
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gave people something to talk about, and stuff to keep up with.
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The whole point of this babbling is to think about why frats exist.
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Unless it is a service frat or something it is nothing more than a big kids
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club with "Special Neato Membership" and shit. Most, if not all, of my friends
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despise these frats. One friend, will not date a sorority chick even though
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she is really cute and everything. Just the principle of it I guess. I have
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been sorta put on the spot as well. I got invited to a "blind date party"
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this week and found out later that it might be a mixer of some kind. I am
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supposed to be going out with a friend of a friend's roomate. whatever is
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all I can say. I will go of course and be social but if it turns out to be
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full of frat boys and sorority girls I have a feeling that I will laugh the
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whole time. Not at them so much, as what they are doing. Like usual (and yes
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I have seen this over and over first hand) they will get drunk, blow chunks,
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and the next morning feel like shit. What a life.
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All of the people I hang out with are BBSers really, or close to it.
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They are all against frats in the sense that they, like me, see it as complete
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and utter bullshit. Sad part is, us BBSers almost make up a frat, but in a
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little different way. I see it as just a group of (mostly) intelligent people
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that share their ideas and thoughts electronically, rather than half drunk
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in person at some rich guys house.
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Enough babbling for me. Take all this how you want and think about it.
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If you are actually in a frat AND reading this then think about why
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you are in it. Maybe I am totally screwed up and don't know half of the
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story or something but I doubt it.
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And even though I do it sometimes, try not to stereotype people for
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any reason. And try to be more social, especially with those people
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that you usually wouldn't talk to for your own little reasons.
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-Dam
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