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[quote=Anonymous]I was in a house and still have many friends from that time. Lifelong friends. I conflate behavior that may have been more prevalent at that time (date rape, included) with Greek life, which may not be fair. It was a lot of getting ready for parties, going to parties, black out drinking etc, losing a Sunday to being hungover, talking about what bad things the bad girls did. One of my friends recently told me here big memory was everyone weighing themselves weekly, which I had totally blocked.

I've told my kids only some of this. What I do tell my kids was that it was very limiting and if I had one suggestion for them it was to embrace ALL of college life. Meet a LOT of people. If you don't like "woke", go find some woke. If you've never met a kid with MAGA parents, go talk to them. Go to the guest lectures. Sit in a lunchtime quartet once at least. And sure, go to lots of parties.

In my house, people joined clubs but they same quasi professional clubs. None of us were highlighting are hair in the bathroom by day and then doing a radio show by night. or joining an improv group. or getting involved in campus or community politics. Even the community service we did - which was substantial - was in our own bubble. We may have made 1000 thanksgiving boxes for the poor, but we never really interacted with the outside world.

I think everyone dislikes the "who didn't get a bid" thing. I hope everyone does. I like to think that even as 18-year olds we were aware that that was a bad look. But there was a social caste for no good reason (mostly based on looks) and I internalized it. Although certainly, by senior year I knew it was bullshit.

I did like the house set up, but I think a lot of colleges have emulated that in other ways. I was really drawn to the universities with residential colleges when we toured. [/quote]

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