r/Frat

I’m trying to join an academic Latino frat in public state school. So far, the experience hasn’t been fun. The initiation process is basically simulating a corporate environment where we do presentations. We’re given formats to follow and information to memorize. There’s 15 positions to be filled up for our group but only 3 of us actually stayed so we each take like 5 positions. On top of that, the two guys I’m working with both aren’t as reliable. One is a really young dude so I don’t expect him to be as reliable but at least he tries. The other dude is a senior who is not pulling his weight. This dude asked me how to tie his necktie the literal hour before the presentation. They both showed up not knowing how to tie their shit but I googled how so I did it for them. We ended up having to stay and recite the passages until we had it memorized because they didn’t take the time to do so.

Anyways, I now have a lot of shit to do on my plate. On top of studying for midterms I have to interview an active, make a new set of rules, get my 2 brothers to study or even just bother to mention that they haven’t been studying, come up with a proposal for community service, and get ready to be shit on again for the next meeting cuz I know my brothers aren’t gonna be on top of their game.

I care a lot about my academics because I used to be homeless. That’s why I find joining an academic frat so appealing but it doesn’t seem like academics are an actual priority here… If only there was a frat where the initiation process is helping each other get perfect scores in every test lmao

For example do you personally think the majority of frats would or would not let in a lone girl into a Halloween party if she had no one else with her? Or would she seem like a creep?

Hi, I'm managing a project for replacing the sound system for my frat's basement and was wondering about the kind of speakers I should be getting.

The thing is the basement we have is a tight 8mx15m space with ceilings about 8-10ft high, the basement is always packed to the point where people are right next to our speakers so i was wondering if coaxial speakers are kind of a requirement.

Currently our setup is 2 JBL JRX125 tops and 2 JBL SoundFactor SF15 with 2 subs that I don't know what they are honestly the speakers currently sound like shit probably because they're old and the amp is fucked so we're completely replacing the system, I want to keep a similar loudness level (the JRX125s are like 133db SPL i think) but I was noticing that speakers with the same db rating that are also coaxial are much much more expensive, our budget is around 15k and I'm looking to get 4 tops and 2 subs.

Our budget is in the ballpark of 15k and these were the two options I was looking into

4× JBL SRX812P + 2× SRX828SP (Non-coaxial) 135dB SPL per top

4x or 6× Tannoy VXP 12 + 2× SRX828SP (Coaxial) 131 dB SPL per top

I was wondering for this case with a packed basement how important coax is and is it worth losing the loudness. Also curious what the word is on passive vs powered systems at this price point and I've heard powered speakers are dangerous when people with drinks are nearby so let me know if that is a huge worry or not. I'm new to this speaker stuff so any advice would be appreciated! I'm also curious what other things I should be worried about with speakers and if things like driver size are important to look at like if i want to SRX812s or SRX815s for example. Appreciate the help!

Most of the pledge class brothers don't live in the frat house, what can I/we do to hangout and bond more?

Long story short I go to a small mid west school and my frat is lowkey bouse (using that term loosely since it’s such a small school the whole touse/bouse concept isn’t really a factor.) but nonetheless we hosted our second social the other day and it was fun, a lot of the girls seemed to be having fun but after about an hour and a half most of them had already left. What kind of stuff can me and my pledge class do to improve our socials, all my frat had out was 3 drinking games and music, but as a pledge it was my first social experience so I’m not sure were other frats have at their socials to make it a cool place to be.

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Rushing this fraternity as a pledge and this brother is super shy to talk to girls. Any advice on how I can help him approach better. I feel like with current generation and social media it is way harder unless someone disagrees? How common was getting laid for you by semester in college for any good reference