re: Largest student party in the SEC starts today

I no longer blame the man Aggies for their gheyity. I blame their womernz.

Yeah, I wouldn’t wanna be in that crowd unless I am at a game. And even then, I like the space tailgating provides.

I’m old now, so the idea of being penned in with a bunch of immature kids who can’t handle alcohol isn’t the coolest thing in the world.

Chilifest is awesome. I’m an old and I probably couldn’t hang, but I would love to see Turnpike.

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We’re your dues less than 4K a year? Because that got me a room, bathroom, shared kitchen with 1 roommate, living room, back yard, parking spot, washer dryer, internet, and directv.

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My dues were around 2k a semester. That included housing, social dues, and 9 meals a week. We also had direct TV and all that other stuff. If you lived off campus, you were looking at, minimum, $5-600/month in rent. That alone is over $2k a semester. Granted, I'm sure dues are more now than they were when I was in college over 10 years ago. I also didn't live in the house the whole time I was in college, but if you did, you were paying no more than a regular college student, and many times less. And if you didn't live in the house, social dues including food were like $1200/semester until senior year they dropped to around $800. My fraternity also gave out around $50k in scholarship money every year so some people ended up paying nothing, but most people got between $500-750 every year.

On campus housing was outrageous. It was over $2500 a semester for housing alone. Add a meal plan and you're looking at another grand a semester. So, yeah, fraternities are just for people who need to buy their friends

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My dues were around 2k a semester. That included housing

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Did not realize that. Not a bad deal if you're living in the house.

Chilifest is a blast. Was actually going to bring up rodeo, the auburn guys I work with said its essentially the same thing. Friends are going this year in the classier VIP area (expensive not exclusive) but the cluster frick trying to leave isn't worth it for me anymore. Some of the best people watching. My senior year had Cody Johnson, Turnpike, Rodger Creager, with Hank Williams Jr headlining

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Collecting dues, discussing said dues with parents, trying to convey party budgets to a group of idiots who mostly did not care, etc.

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You would have hated me my first year

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Then I threatened to and finally went through with cancelling a Saturday night band party on a home game weekend. The ones who were paying their dues basically threatened to murder all the slackers and overdue payments picked up nice and quick.

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This is why I lobbied to be Social Chairman

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This is why I lobbied to be Social Chairman

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LOL - crisis management skills are learned when on Wednesday the Social Chair informs you of the awesome band he was able to get for Saturday and how it is only going to cost $8,000 but you have to help him get the security forms to the University office in 90 minutes. And you don't have $8,000.

READY, GO

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You wouild have hated our social chair (and my best friend). He literally told the incoming social chair after him not to worry about how much things cost, just pay for it and we'll figure it out later. That's probably why our alumni were pissed when they found out he spent $30k on formal in Hilton Head and $30k on Three 6 Mafia (right after they won an Oscar) in the same year.

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LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL - weird, it's like every social chair of a fraternity has the same base instincts

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Crisis management skills are learned when on Wednesday the Social Chair informs you of the awesome band he was able to get for Saturday and how it is only going to cost $8,000 but you have to help him get the security forms to the University office in 90 minutes. And you don't have $8,000.

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You went to Tennessee, right 19?

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correct

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The mid-2000s were basically the end of anything remotely resembling difficult mental stress with fraeternity stuff. Most of my high school friends were at Tennessee the same time I was at Alabama and they all had similar stories as their college years got towards the end.

We still very much had sleep deprivation, forced cleaning, alcohol stuff though that was always very dependent on who was around and who the subject of the haze was, verbal abuse and all that (nothing physical). By the time I left it was basically down to wearing the same clothes and having to answer a few questions. None of it was ever really my thing (not exactly a huge ball hazer), but some of the funnier things people made me do as a pledge still stick with me. Especially stuff me and my buddies had to do as a group.

Sucks that stuff is gone, but people overdid the other stuff and earned it I guess.