Would you join a sorority or fraternity?

Hey guys I'm currently doing research on UK versus US uni scene and I noticed that the UK doesn't have fraternities and sororities (Greek Life). Could you please answer a few questions for me so I can finish conducting my research? Thanks!
How often do you make friends at bars and clubs versus on campus?
Do you know what fraternities and sororities are? If so, which would you join?
How do you think Greek Life would benefit your school?

Reply 1

Talkative Toad

I don’t go to the bar or club (I am probably an anomaly from a British perspective).

I have no idea what fraternities and sororities are.

I don’t think that Greek life would benefit my school.

Reply 2

artful_lounger

Universities Forum Helper

The rugby teams and like here are close enough (and bad enough) that I absolutely wouldn't want there to be "Greek life" formally in the UK.

Also a big part of that is living in a frat/sorority house with other member of the frat/sorority as opposed to living in on campus dorms, but that doesn't really translate to the UK because unlike the US it's quite unusual here to live in on campus, university managed accommodation for the full course and most students will (by necessity and often choice anyway) live out after first year and be living in shared accommodation with friends anyway. There are exceptions (notably most Oxbridge colleges offer accommodation for the full course) but in general that's really a big feature of Greek life which just doesn't apply to the UK.

Anyway I really consider it a blight upon the US university system and creates a lot of issues and solves very few, so I think overall the UK is better off without it.

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Reply 3

The_Lonely_Goatherd

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I've only been clubbing once (it was OK, but not for me. I was told you need to drink alcohol to actually enjoy clubbing - perhaps there's some truth to that :iiam:

) and that was with people I already knew. I've been to a few bars and quite a lot of pubs, usually with at least one person I already knew and then some people that that individual knew. I definitely expanded my friendship circles that way and made some friends for life! :h:

It's hard to remember all the specifics of how friendships started but I definitely made a small handful of new concrete, long-lasting friendships by going to bars and pubs, as well as cementing pre-existing ones :yep:

I don't entirely understand what a fraternity or sorority is, no. The way Hollywood depicts them, I'd avoid all like the plague! I agree with everything @artful_lounger said, tbh :ninja:

I do not see how it would have benefitted my undergraduate university experience (which, incidentally, was at Oxbridge, so I had some of the perks of living in my college all three years, which artful_lounger alluded to). It would have made it a lot more hellish, imho :eek: