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I think the main reason I started to thinking about Greek life in my senior year of HS was because I had a friend going to K-state who was starting on the rush process already around the time of Spring break. He got me thinking about the possibility. Hearing him come back and tell tales of the parties and the girls obviously raised my interest.
Nebraska sent out a fraternity info flyer right before spring break, and it had a return mailer to get information about certain houses...I spent like 3 hours looking at all the chapter webpages, and marked my selections of the houses I was interested in, only never to get any information until the rush application came in the mail. I putzed around with the application and never got around to filling it out. By the time I wen through New Student Enrollment it was mid June, and I figured I was too late to start rushing. Luckily the guys (who happened to be Beta's Rush chairs) at the Greek Affairs table on the morning I was enrolling said that I could still rush.
I really had no idea other than the social aspects of what I might be getting into. The only other reason I came up with to join was that I was from out-of-state and only knew one other person who was going to be at UNL.
After talking to the rush chairs at a bunch of different houses I realized the many other important reasons to join: Service, improved academics, brotherhood (although I didn't really understand at the time), networking, and a place to live.
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