answer:My fraternity experience was a significant part of being in school. Yes, we partied a lot, but we also had some very good students who got outstanding grades. We participated in campus life, we were part of the community, and we had an active yet generally sane social life. My fraternity did not allow hazing, so it was a place to make life long friends who treated each other with respect. We did pull pranks on each other, but nothing too out of the ordinary for college students. We (I) drank to excess at times, but no one ever died. I am, 35 years later, still close to a number of fraternity brothers. Just last week an old roommate was in town on business with his family joining. We had number of us from the fraternity meet for dinner in San Francisco, and three days later I gave him and his family a one day tour of SF. It was one of those friendships that just picked up where we’d left it the last time we’d seen each other. Even today, many of my closest friends are fraternity brothers who live near me, there are a dozen that live within 15 miles.