Before I started my Local and had to get up in front of a group of more than 10, I was scared to death and would get sick!
I fought to get us on campus and become a member of a Strong International!
I learned from this experience to talk in front of a very large crowd of people as I gave the Key Note Speech at the Chartering!
I also gave the key note 5 years later to an even larger group of people!
I worked my butt off to get grades so we could win the outstanding Fraternity for GPA!
As a local, we had a 1.35 and with in 2 Semesters we had the Highest!
We as Greeks strive for more than any individual living in a Dorm to have good grades and participate in functions that will round you out as an Individual upon Graduation and go to the real life of working.
True, your time is not your own, but it is set out for you to do and function in a certain manner.
You learn to budget your time and strive to do more than most! Yes the first Sem as a Recruit is tuff but so is life after school!!!!!
Parents who are afraid are like students who are afraid of the unknow!
I for one have learned more doing what I did as a person than I did in 7 years of College! People looked at my resume and said OH you were in a Fraternity and you held this office, etc!
If you do not look into and try it, and this goes for everyone, you learn even less than you fan for you to be better prepared to handle real world situations~
