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I was part of a group that re-started my chapter. You want to talk about hard?? Try starting out with only 4 members, inheriting a debt of $16,000, with absolutely no help from your nationals. The prevailing joke in our fraternity province was we were a dead chapter, its just that no one told us. To say that we were screwed and lied to in the very beginning is understatement. Despite all our work, "technically" we weren't considered "Founding Fathers" even though that is what motivated us in the first place.
After two full years we still only had 15 members while other chapters had an average of 40-50. The 4 of us at times paid more attention to fraternity matters than school. A ton of work doesn't even begin to comprehend my experience. That's why I always roll my eyes when I hear some colony folding when they started out with so many people with the full support of their school and fraternity headquarters. Some colonies think it's hard, but many of them don't know how easy they have it.
What sucked for me is that the fraternity finally started to really take off during my senior year.
Anything can succeed, as long as you want it bad enough.
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