On the off-chance that this is a genuine reply, I reply with a "Nope!" For personal reasons, I didn't drink until late in my sophomore year. No one pressured me on it, though it did result in me being voted into chapter positions that required sobriety at chapter events because there was an attitude of "Hey, it's not…

It's by no means a universal experience, as emails like this clearly show. I think the important thing is the recognition is that every campus is different, as are the different sororities and fraternities on each campus. There are sororities in which I would have floundered; similarly, some of the fraternities were…

If you really want to know why, I did it because I was at a large university, painfully shy, and didn't drink. I didn't hold out much hope meeting people by attending parties and such, my roommate was insane, and I'd had fun at weekend hosted by the Greek community when I'd visited in high school. Though to be fair,…