<p>I agree with boneh3ad on most of his points, Ive been at U of I for 2 years now studying as an engineer. I never joined a frat and never had problems finding a social life. On the weekends, I generally head out to the bars or to friend’s apartments to party. It isn’t very difficult to find and get into frat parties seeing as you’ll most likely make friends with a lot of people who did join the greek system.</p>
<p>Being greek is important if you have trouble finding people to connect to and hang out with or if you simply want to party every other day of the week. Instead of joining a frat, I joined the Men’s Ultimate Frisbee team at Illinois which was one of the best choices Ive made since arriving on campus. In reality, your social life will be dictated by your closest group of friends, not by whether or not you go greek.</p>