appears to be, and as I would soon find out, to be a pretty normal guy. My parents leave after what seems of hours of kissing and hugging and I am on my own. The sun goes down and along with it my childhood.The rising tide of adulthoodMonday morning comes around and so does first day of classes. Not so bad in fact hey seemed damned easy, college was going to be a piece of cake. The first weekend came along and with it the start of what I would learn to become known as “Rush”. All the fraternities through these awesome parties over the course of the next few weekend in the hoe of getting us freshmen to pledge. The one I finally settled on, Phi Kappa Theta, made fraternity life seem like heaven. They were first with grades, mandatory study times, and every one of their parties I left with an alcoholic’s smile on my face and hot girl on my arm. What guys could pass up an opportunity for something like that. And besides I knew what fraternities were all about I had watch Animal House hundreds of times. Have you ever been in the top of a bunk bed and fallen out? Well that is what it is like pledging for a fraternity. You go from being treated like a king by the Brothers to become slaves overnight. And while I never did anything against my morals some things did get on my nerves, such as the first time I got called out for a pack of cigarettes in the middle of the night the day before I had a seven thirty class. Events on the weekdays will go till four in the morning, which is what will really test your nerves. But it was all worth it, in so many ways.While some of the stuff seemed ridiculous and repetitive it did several good things. It gave me the closest group of friends, my pledge brothers. I never thought I would have made 17 friends so fast and become so tight with them. There is nothing I wouldn’t do for them and that they wouldn’t do for me. In the past I have unfortunately quit when the...
