Reflective Essay: The Use Of Peer Pressure In Greek Life

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As the days closed in on the final deadline of Greek life enrollment here at Central, I found that the decision to join did not get any easier. I had heard so many fun stories from my mother and older friends already in college, that greek life was the way to go and it would give you so many fun activities to participate in. At the time all of my roommates were signed up to rush and it seemed like I was the only one who hadn 't joined yet. The amount of peer pressured I endured to simply sign up was already unbearable and I knew that it wasn 't going to get any better from the stories I had heard. Sure I wanted to get involved and meet tons of new people, but I also didn 't want ot have to deal with the other pressures that are involved with greek life itself. Although I overcame this specific aspect of peer pressure, I realized that it 's a bigger problem in many other areas of college as well
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