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Okay, I've been thinking about this thread a lot, and since I got to wear my letters during my pledge program, I was thinking about things that I could and couldn't do as a pledge. There are three things that relate pretty closely to being able to wear letters.
We couldn't say either "Wooglin" or "Kai", and we couldn't enter our chapter room, until we were initiated.
After getting initiated did I feel like being able to do those things were great acheivements? Not really they were all kinda anti-climactic, and paled in comparison to learning what the three great principles of Beta Theta Pi are. I would imagine that finally being able to wear letters would be a similar experience, a nice benefit of finally initiating but not meaning as much as the knowledge gained through initiation. In even further comparison, I think that wearing letters wouldn't even come close to finally being able to wear the badge - which is the official symbol of membership for most GLO's.
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