text: should i join a frat?   totally not. frats (unless devoted at least three-fourths of the time to volunteer work) are the lamest of the lame. why not just live in an eight-bedroom house? you'd make as many friends without the idiotic frat politics. (the politics are really the stupidest part about them. all frats are good for is reproducing the white european, religious, upper-middle-class, male-dominated ideology that normal people struggle against every day.) get to know students who are different from you rather than the same. expose yourself to new, challenging viewpoints. expand your mind - don't narrow it by living in a house full of ... well, you know what it's full of.  and i wouldn't count on a frat "looking good" on a resume unless you plan to go into business and become a cog in the corporate machine.