“希腊式生活”席卷美国校园_大学英语阅读

“希腊式生活”席卷美国校园

对于大多数刚刚进入大学的美国学生来说，学习已暂不是生活的主旋律，此时必不可少的就是社团活动。每一届新生入学之际，校园里的兄弟会、姐妹会也纷纷登场。它们有一个共同的名字——“希腊生活”，是美国大学校园里特有的一种社团活动。社团作为大学生展示自我的舞台，已经成为一种独特的校园文化。然而，在风光的背后，这些大学社团是否毫无缺点?

College isn’t just about learning.

Contrary to popular belief, once you go to college academics is about the last thing on your mind. For me at least, I was scouting around the campus looking for valuable extracurricular that would aptly define me as a person. I wanted to be a part of everything imaginable. The merits of joining clubs were the friends I could have made as well as staying busy when my academic workload wasn’t as heavy. By the end of the first semester, however, many first-years felt like they lacked a small group of permanent friends they could always fall back on. Students felt like their support network was very limited, and many had difficulty coping with the fact that didn’t have the solid friend group they had in high school.

This is where Greek life comes into play.

For those of you who do not know, Greek life is a system of fraternities and sororities. Fraternities are all male and sororities are all female. These fraternities and sororities are essentially groups of girls or boys who partake in various philanthropic events. There are multiple fraternities and sororities and each fraternity or sorority has a name, which is usually a fusion of 3 Greek letters of the alphabet. An example would be Delta Delta Delta or Gamma Phi Beta. Apart from coordinating a volunteering event, fraternities and sororities are known to be strong brother or sisterhoods. Each fraternity or sorority has at least 20 members, but this number varies depending on the fraternity or sorority and the size of the school.