One piece of Advice

[chickenoodle]

Originally Posted by mccoyred

My advice for ANY new member of ANY organization would be to study and learn your documents. If one learns the information correctly early in their membership, they are less likely to make stuff up and pass on incorrect knowledge. While each person is an individual, there has to be some uniformity of understanding and purpose in order for a cohesive and functioning organization to exist.

I would like to expand on this by saying get to know your organization. Meet people from other chapters, go to National/Provincial events, visit other campuses. Read your documents and learn, I mean really learn, what your organization was founded on. Should you be initiated, you will represent that organization and everything it stands for. Make sure it's something you believe in because you'll be connected to it and its members for the rest of your life.

[SydneyK]

The Golden Rule, as you learned in elementary school, continues to apply:
Treat your sisters (brothers) the way you'd want them to treat you.

[ree-Xi]

NPC:

Don't try to fit into a group/put on a show/suicide a particular group because you think they're the "best" at whatever (coolest, prettiest, smartest). Find a group that you already fit into.

If you do receive a bid to a group that you think embodies something that you WISH you were, rather than a group that is similar to who you really are, you'll either be dissatisfied or be playing catch-up (popularity, fashion/style, hobbies, spending habits, partying) for the rest of your time at school. (Note that there are people of ally types in every group).