How sad! What year did you graduate? I am a greek here at UCSD and I absolutely love it. The greek system here is growing seemingly exponentially each rush. My chapter was capped in fall rush! Before I came to college, I also expected to go greek and believed since I was born that I would go to USC like my parents did. But I came here and could not be happier. Rush is formal here...a very tiring but well worth it week. And while this campus does remain a very academic campus, our greek system is amazing. Our girls always joke about how it's nice to be here because you are guaranteed that all the hot surfer fraternity boys are intelligent if they are here! Our campus is beautiful, the teachers are amazing, and the beach is always open for random exchanges. The top houses are competitive like all other campuses. But we all have lives outside of the greek system. I have just returned from an event that included greeks from all over California and I was impressed with our girls for having so much class. And our guys for having fun but not being blatantly obnoxious idiots like at other "party" schools. Remember that you are at a university for 4 years...ask yourself what you want out of a sorority...if you can handle four years of the row, every weekend. Here our social life is diverse...a day at the beach, shopping downtown, bars in Pacific Beach, exchanges at rented out restaurants and bars, fraternity formals in Rosarito, and those infamous fraternity trips to TJ! Feel free to ask any questions about UCSD or our greek system! I am ecstatic to answer them!
