How did you learn about Greek life?

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by Dionysus

Someone mentioned in another thread that some people lack discretion because they have no experience with the Greek system. It makes a lot of sense. More than 90% of my Greek knowledge comes from GC.

I don't see how it is even possible to learn about how the Greek system works without reading posts on Greek Chat. Obviously, people DO learn in other ways. There's many people I know in real life who knows a lot about being Greek, but has never visited GC. Then there's people who became Greek way before the internet even existed.

For those who gained most of their knowledge without GC, how did you find it? Are there books out there that some of us don't know about? Websites? Direct observations?

Well being as my expereince came long before the internet became public kowledge you had to find books and you had direct observation.

I learned some of what I wound up learing about Greek life from friends and associates who were already Greeks.

The internet did some good and bad for Greeks.

It put information out there that people could easily access to find out about whatever they wanted to find about the particular org. they were interested in.

To a point, however, I sometimes feel that with so much of the knowledge dispensed, some people aren't "earning" the knowledge that they need and then there is a question sometimes about how much is too much or too little that should be public knowledge.

On the flip, some of the easiest answer needed can be found via a simple google search.