30 Things I Learned While Pledging

1. Hearing the same song over and over again is the best way to drive someone insane.

2. Being cocky will get you some places in life, but it will never make you a Brother.

3. I’ll never be able to comfortably wear a white t-shirt and khaki shorts again, repressed memories.

4. Your pledge brothers have your back for life.

5. A little apple juice and cinnamon will tame even the cheapest of vodkas.

6. The number one rule at all-nude strip clubs? “Don’t touch the cookie.”

7. Average looking sorority girls usually have hot friends.

8. The more ridiculous your social outfit, the more likely a gal’s going to rip it off of you later in the night.

9. If your National Exam has the bonus question “What’s your least favorite food?” don’t answer it, because that’s all you’re going to be eating come Hell Week.

10. No matter how well you think you know the Greek Alphabet, you’re probably going to fuck it up when a gargantuan bourbon-chugging 7th year is yelling at you.

11. Avoiding work at the house will only bite you in the ass later.

12. If you’re the only pledge with a truck, you’re going to have to do twice as much work.

13. C’s get degrees.

14. 75% of Fake ID success depends on how confidently you hand it to the bouncer.

15. “All You Can Drink” is a suggestion, not a challenge.

16. Designated driving shifts can range anywhere from “entertaining” to “that was the worst night of my life.”

17. Even when you think you know what’s going on, you really have no idea.

18. You can never meet too many Freshman girls.

19. RA’s don’t appreciate the amount of beer you can store in your mini-fridge the same way you do.

20. Getting rushed is awesome, being the rusher sucks sweaty donkey balls.

21. Ten minutes early is on-time. On-time is late.

22. Even when we thought we were right, we were wrong.

23. The duties for Pledge Class Sergeant at Arms are very limited.

24. Cockblocking a brother has horrific consequences.

25. If you pass out with your shoes on and only wake up with marker on your face consider yourself lucky.

26. Throw up in someone’s room and you’re guaranteed to have to clean it for the rest of your pledgeship.

27. The first and last words out of your mouth should always be “Sir.”

28. The less sleep you’re getting, the closer you are to finishing.

29. If you get a good pledge nickname, prepared to be called that the rest of your life.

30. Initiation night is guaranteed to be one of the best of your life.

  1. texas_bro

    Khaki shorts with a white tee would have been a blessing.
    White washed wranglers and boots for us.

    12 years ago at 3:31 pm
    1. ICALLMYDICKCHAINEY

      Things i learned while pledging Fuck TKE, Fuck sigma who, and every Pike should kill themselves. Seriously though Fuck PIKE

      12 years ago at 6:43 am
    2. Mashholder Stu

      ^^the guy above you must not have gotten a bid from sigma chi, to he joined TKE, and now he feels the need to defend it.

      12 years ago at 12:24 pm
  2. anchored378

    #22 should be: when you’re right you’re wrong, and when you’re wrong you’re fucked.

    12 years ago at 3:44 pm
  3. Czar Nobama

    What is this shorts bullshit? If you pledged a real fraternity it was wranglers and boots.

    12 years ago at 7:32 pm
    1. northeastbroscout

      I’d trek through Bali, Bangkok, and Britain in Sperry’s and Khaki’s, before the day I’d wear wranglers and boots.

      12 years ago at 5:41 pm
    2. Jon M Fratsman

      ^ That’s because you are (cue the Piker) mentally retarded. I pledged in the South, but we wore the attire I mentioned because we were required to. I would have taken wranglers and boots any day.

      12 years ago at 10:55 am