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Originally posted by carnation
I disagree with what people have said about advisors needing to get a life. Face it, if there were no advisors and alums helping, there would be no sorority...undergrads often don't realize this and think that certain things just magically "appear" and/or happen, but they don't.
I'm not an advisor--I'm too far from any Pi Phi chapters--but I wish I could be, to try to give back even half the experiences that were provided for us. It's like the neat things that parents try to do for their own kids (like birthday parties) so that they'll have good memories. Some people are ready to give back what they were given right after they graduate; others may take a while. Never have I met an advisor whose whole life was wrapped up in an undergrad chapter.
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I agree with you, Advisors are incredibly important to undergrads. Perhaps your chapter and my own are different though. You said you never met an advisor whose life was wrapped up in an undergrad chapter. In our chapter, they are incredibly obsessed. This is well known throughout the undergrads and even in a couple of the advisors who aren't so wrapped up. Perhaps if I had the advisors you had in college, I would feel differently about this.
But like I said, they are incredibly important. Chapters would be nonexistant without them.