Social Life at Brown for transfers

NapoleonInRags
Sun, 02 Sep 2012 19:00:12 +0000

please do not rush. if you are looking for friends, which it sounds like you are, there couldn’t be a worse way to go about it. Sure, you will meet some folks in your pledge class that you are naturally friends with, but the bottom line is that the way fraternities work is that you are put in a room with a bunch of people and told THESE ARE YOUR FRIENDS. Those aren’t real friends. And since most of the institutions ARE dysfunctional, these friends-by-association will not be there for you if there’s trouble. Further, fraternities and sororities, co-ed or single gender, will isolate you to that particular group and make it harder to have as deep of friendships on the outside

instead, do this: join clubs and participate in activities for things that interest you. there you will find real friends with like interests and will have an allegiance to you beyond a few greek letters.

Also, be bold. put yourself forward. sit with new people. introduce yourself into a conversation. I think you will find that people at brown WANT to be your friend. but you have to do your part to make it happen!