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Originally Posted by JohnnyCash
(I've been kind of ghost lately from GC with school and all but I got to thinking recently and searched the topic but found no threads.)
Lately I've been feeling differently about my organization. I'm proud to be a brother of my fraternity and honestly think it's one of the best chapters on my campus, but I'm reaching my 3 years and things feel very much different (no shit, I know- but still).
I used to be very internally involved and found it to be very rewarding, but I no longer am and now I'm very externally involved on campus- you can say I'm one of the "face" guys in my fraternity. I guess this caused me to drift away from my chapter and the guys I used to consider my best friends.
I feel like the vast majority of the friendships with my brothers are very casual and superficial. Don't get my wrong, I spend a good amount of time with my brothers doing the usual- drinking, eating, hanging out, partying, etc.
But I feel like there are no guys that I can really sit down and have a meaningful conversation with. Most of my interaction with brothers consists of casual conversations and often never goes past the "how was your day?" type of small talk.
I was wondering how many of you have experienced that or experienced that as an undergraduate.
Do you feel like Greek life is composed of primarily casual and superficial friendships or can you really find your lifelong best friends being Greek??
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I think that happens to a lot of people, especially as you get older because some of your close friends have graduated or transferred and you're involved in class and other campus activities while a lot of other members spend most of their time with each other. By the time I graduated I felt the same way, and I have a couple of friends I keep up with on a regular basis from the sorority, but I figure that it's great if I can have a couple of super close friendships...but if I don't get that out of the organization that's ok because I still had fun being a part of it as a collegian. That was my attitude for my last couple of years, and now I hear some of the girls below me who are about to leave this year or next year saying the same thing, and it is mostly the ones who are spending more time studying, working, and participating in other campus organizations.