he same interests as you do. Already I have made 21 of the greatest friends in my life. Fraternities cause you to become closer to people than you would most likely get otherwise. Basically, I believe from my point of view that the media misrepresents colleges very often times in reporting about them. The Media needs to do a better job of finding out what college life is really like. They never right about what kind of academic things are happening around the university. Even in the campus newspaper, which does a pretty good job of getting the facts, usually fails to write very much about any thing other than what bar specials there are that week, what band is playing where, what fraternities or sororities are having date functions, and then classifieds for jobs and other things. I have not seen a section dedicated to schoolwork. Even if they wrote an article every now and then about improving your study skills, or the best way to go about finding a tutor if you need one, at least it would be something somewhat beneficial. This sucks because it gives the general public a false impression about what colleges are about these days. Too many times I've heard older people talking about how college is nothing but a big party compared to the way it was back in their day. It upsets me because I would love for them to try coming to school now. I would go as far to say that college is harder now than it was 25 years ago. Not just the classes in general though. A lot of school being harder now is due to the increased distractions outside of school that keep students from studying. ...
