How Greek life is Beneficial

  Most people believe that being in a Sorority or Fraternity is all about getting drunk, partying every weekend, and not caring about school. But it's not like that at all, as Alexander Vervloet has stated in his article, being in a fraternity was really beneficial to not only himself but to many other successful brothers.(ex. Presidents and people on the  Forbes 500 list) Some of the key things that people don't realize about greek life is that when you join a "house", that fraternity or sorority has a minimum GPA requirement and if you fail to meet that minimum requirement then you're supposed to go to some type of study session to help raise your GPA. Another fact that goes somewhat unnoticed is that every fraternity or sorority has a philanthropy (a charity that they raise money towards) and they hold an event once or twice a semester and all the proceeds go to that charity. For example I'm in Phi Mu: Eta Nu and our philanthropy is Children's Miracle Network Hospital LA since we're located near Los Angeles. Lastly majority of the people who are apart of the greek life community gains an enormous amount of social skills, leadership skills, and self confidence. Greek life makes you learn how to approach people and socialize with people that you normally might not get along with and this is an important life lesson because in order to succeed in any career of choice you're going to have to learn how to deal with people.

Being in greek life isn't meaning less and a waste of time, it's giving you the opportunity to branch out, explore who you really are, and what you're capable of achieving.

http://www.dailybarometer.com/greek-life-is-beneficial-1.3003420#.UT12rRy9auI