Brotherhood Gathering
Last weekend was a brotherhood event with pledges. It was my first time going to one. I was supposed to have one too when I was pledging but something happened. Basically a bunch of actives and pledges meet in one place… the rest is history haha. I’m just glad I didn’t have it…haha. For pledges I’m sure it wasn’t a fun night, but for actives it was pretty fun. It was really cool seeing so many different chapters all in one place. It’s also really cool how all the chapters really respect each other. I think this social network aspect of frat life is really appealing to me.
My favorite part of the weekend was when we saw the alumnis. We met at some park and had bbq and football with the alumnis. I met the founding father of our chapter, who was like 50 years old, the founder of my family line who was like 40. It was really interesting to see all these guys that were married, had kids, come out and support us. They told of stories of pledging back in their day, and it was fucking scary back then haha. It was really cool that all the faces that I saw on our walls (composites) were actually real people. Seeing them in flesh was really cool and made me have mad respect for the guys who’ve lived in the house before me.
The alumnis were all pretty badass. They were all hella hardcore and huge… No wonder why everyone used to be scared of our guys haha. The alumnis also offered us a lot of advice and insight into fraternal life. Alumnis told us how things used to be like and taught us about old traditions that were lost along the way. It was just really interesting to hear about the fraternities past from a primary source.
But yea that was a really cool weekend. I just wanted to blog about it before I forgot it. Oh and I got the shit kicked out of me when playing football. haha
