Kids

[Sandstone Outcropping]

I have a 9 month old daughter and a boy due in June. So they'll be about 15 months apart. Anyone else have kids this close in age and want to tell me I won't die in the first two years?

Are these your only two kids? If so, it will be fine. None of our kids are more than 2 years apart and it has been really good.

[nicname]

I have a 9 month old daughter and a boy due in June. So they'll be about 15 months apart. Anyone else have kids this close in age and want to tell me I won't die in the first two years?

Are these your only two kids? If so, it will be fine. None of our kids are more than 2 years apart and it has been really good.

Youngest turned two Dec 2, middle turns four May 20. Also have a 15. Piece of cake. They entertain each other well

[Stevesie60]

I have a 9 month old daughter and a boy due in June. So they'll be about 15 months apart. Anyone else have kids this close in age and want to tell me I won't die in the first two years?

Are these your only two kids? If so, it will be fine. None of our kids are more than 2 years apart and it has been really good.

Yep, they're the only two. And I'm going to ask the guy doing the circumcision if he can go ahead and neuter me at the same time so they will be our only two.

[nicname]

I have a 9 month old daughter and a boy due in June. So they'll be about 15 months apart. Anyone else have kids this close in age and want to tell me I won't die in the first two years?

Are these your only two kids? If so, it will be fine. None of our kids are more than 2 years apart and it has been really good.

Yep, they're the only two. And I'm going to ask the guy doing the circumcision if he can go ahead and neuter me at the same time so they will be our only two.

You’re still pretty young aren’t you? The world can use more kids born to decent parents.

[Winters]

I have a 9 month old daughter and a boy due in June. So they'll be about 15 months apart. Anyone else have kids this close in age and want to tell me I won't die in the first two years?

Are these your only two kids? If so, it will be fine. None of our kids are more than 2 years apart and it has been really good.

Yep, they're the only two. And I'm going to ask the guy doing the circumcision if he can go ahead and neuter me at the same time so they will be our only two.

You’re still pretty young aren’t you? The world can use more kids born to decent parents.

QFT

[steve dave]

2 is the maximum number of kids that should be allowed by law


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[steve dave]

And 1 should be illegal. 0 and 2 are the only options.


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[wetwillie]

3 only if your second pregnancy is twins. Even then you should be lightly shamed by society.

[IPA4Me]

Need more of you to pump out 6+ to counteract the lack of production from others.

[nicname]

Need more of you to pump out 6+ to counteract the lack of production from others.

Exactly. Might as well have a brood.

[steve dave]

HAVE 6 KIDS PLAYING COMPETITIVE YOUTH SPORTS CHALLENGE (IMPOSSIBLE)

[Justwin]

Neither Mrs Nicname or I were part of the Greek system. We both agreed that we would encourage our kids to be a part of it. There just seems to be a lot of advantages and opportunities to form strong bonds that aren’t as readily apparent for gdi students.

I am all about network.  My parents didn't really prep me for that before college.   Since college, it's wildly obvious that the right network can be as important or more important to certain careers than the degree.  I know that isn't always applicable, but by kid wants to do medicine, and from the little exposure I have to folks in that world, it seems wildly important to get through the med school, residency, specialty, etc stuff.

I don't think it is wildly important to get into medical school. Your performance in school and your relationship with a research lab mentor will matter a lot more.

Do you know how residency match works?

[CNS]

Neither Mrs Nicname or I were part of the Greek system. We both agreed that we would encourage our kids to be a part of it. There just seems to be a lot of advantages and opportunities to form strong bonds that aren’t as readily apparent for gdi students.

I am all about network.  My parents didn't really prep me for that before college.   Since college, it's wildly obvious that the right network can be as important or more important to certain careers than the degree.  I know that isn't always applicable, but by kid wants to do medicine, and from the little exposure I have to folks in that world, it seems wildly important to get through the med school, residency, specialty, etc stuff.

I don't think it is wildly important to get into medical school. Your performance in school and your relationship with a research lab mentor will matter a lot more.

Do you know how residency match works?

I just read about residency match and it sounds much better than it was explained to me quite a few years ago when a coworker’s significant other was going through the process. That said, it’s been nearly 20 yrs and I might have been hearing sour grapes.

[michigancat]

I have a 9 month old daughter and a boy due in June. So they'll be about 15 months apart. Anyone else have kids this close in age and want to tell me I won't die in the first two years?

My kids are closer than this and it was stressful for a small window but overall has been great. But now we will transition to empty nesters very quickly which is kind of sad but almost more of a shock to the system than going from 1 to 2.

[Pete]

Neither Mrs Nicname or I were part of the Greek system. We both agreed that we would encourage our kids to be a part of it. There just seems to be a lot of advantages and opportunities to form strong bonds that aren’t as readily apparent for gdi students.

I was small town white trash and even making it to KSU was a miracle. When I got there it was all pretty big and i struggled at first. Had a few friends, but they were old friends and I knew I wanted to meet more people. I decided to try the greek system and just randomly called a bunch and then visited. Best decision I ever made. It was extremely beneficial for my situation.

Different situation but I know for me joining a house ended up being a net positive. I had a really, really good freshman years not in a house (lived in Moore), and ended up joining a house sophomore year just cause the make up of my floor my second year wasn't as great, not bad by any stretch but needed something that honestly helped keep me going in engineering, as well as in general the HS I went to most people didn't go to Catz U so it was a lot of starting over for me, fraternity life allowed for more consistency.

I have plenty of friends and acquaintances from both in a house and out of, but the ones in the house ended up being overall more enduring and I often talk and hang out with to this day. Very important to having any sort of social safety new when I moved to the KC area and not really knowing anyone.

I just think that as long as any house obviously doesn't haze, party too much, (it's college you're going to experiment and have fun, just within reason right), and I think not take itself too seriously then they are probably good fits. I think my impression having now not been as associated with the day to day going on at my house is since K-State (and a lot of Universities for that matter) have very much distanced themselves from the greek system, I think it has weakened it, but honestly in a good way. I feel like it's more the actual good social and academic groups they intended to be, rather than the super preppy, serious, and often dangerous groups they used to be. But obviously my 

I knew little to nothing about the Greek system when I rushed and joined a house. My folks didn’t go to college. 

The number 1 thing being in a fraternity provided me was a group of people who would not only approve of my drinking, but absolutely normalize drinking 5+ nights a week and fully endorse it.

Secondarily, it provided me with the framework to chase as many girls as possible.

Those things are probably in every fraternity….the groups and sub groups exist in all of them, but some more than others.

I had no idea that I had a family history that put me at risk, and had zero awareness about the progressive nature of alcoholism.

Heck, I probably would have ended up with a negative relationship with alcohol no matter what, but holy crap did the fraternity super charge it. Absolutely launched it.

[ben ji]

My parents weren't in the Greek system and I had not even considered it until my senior year of HS. I was talking to my one HS friend who was also going to K-State about staying in the dorms and he was like "dude, were not staying in the dorms, were joining a frat". Went and stayed with his cousins bf who was a phi delt and ended up joining.

All in all it was a great experience and I'm still good friends with 10+ of my fraternity brothers to this day.

In regards to hazing it depends on the house but in general K-State does not have a "hardcore/stereotypical" Greek system like other universities. We stayed at the Mizzou/Auburn houses during football games and.......yeah, holy crap. Worst we had at K-State was having to wakeup in the middle of the night and clean the house and I don't even know if they do that anymore.

Some other pro's -

You have to regularly DD when you are a freshman but then you basically have a DD anytime your next 3 years.

The structure that being a pledge provides is beneficial to some people getting their first taste of freedom. Example - You have to go to classes, assigned study hours, people checking and caring about your grades that aren't your parents.

Other people have mentioned connections and it's true, being in a fraternity you just meet and form relationships with a lot more people than you would normally meet and stay in touch with. I'm in sales, I have personally made THOUSANDS of dollars just from people I knew in the fraternity. In B2B sales it's extremely helpful to have someone, anyone, you know who works at a company that could buy your services and help you get your foot in the door.

[steve dave]

My parents weren't in the Greek system and I had not even considered it until my senior year of HS. I was talking to my one HS friend who was also going to K-State about staying in the dorms and he was like "dude, were not staying in the dorms, were joining a frat". Went and stayed with his cousins bf who was a phi delt and ended up joining.

All in all it was a great experience and I'm still good friends with 10+ of my fraternity brothers to this day.

In regards to hazing it depends on the house but in general K-State does not have a "hardcore/stereotypical" Greek system like other universities. We stayed at the Mizzou/Auburn houses during football games and.......yeah, holy crap. Worst we had at K-State was having to wakeup in the middle of the night and clean the house and I don't even know if they do that anymore.

Some other pro's -

You have to regularly DD when you are a freshman but then you basically have a DD anytime your next 3 years.

The structure that being a pledge provides is beneficial to some people getting their first taste of freedom. Example - You have to go to classes, assigned study hours, people checking and caring about your grades that aren't your parents.

Other people have mentioned connections and it's true, being in a fraternity you just meet and form relationships with a lot more people than you would normally meet and stay in touch with. I'm in sales I have personally made THOUSANDS of dollars just from people I knew in the fraternity. In B2B sales it's extremely helpful to have someone, anyone, you know who works at a company that could buy your services and help you get your foot in the door.

Great post BJ


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[steve dave]

Stands for BlowJob frosh


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[ben ji]

Stands for BlowJob frosh


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Someone is still bitter AGR/Farmhouse didn't give them a bid a bagillion years ago.

[Stupid Fitz]

My parents weren't in the Greek system and I had not even considered it until my senior year of HS. I was talking to my one HS friend who was also going to K-State about staying in the dorms and he was like "dude, were not staying in the dorms, were joining a frat". Went and stayed with his cousins bf who was a phi delt and ended up joining.

All in all it was a great experience and I'm still good friends with 10+ of my fraternity brothers to this day.

In regards to hazing it depends on the house but in general K-State does not have a "hardcore/stereotypical" Greek system like other universities. We stayed at the Mizzou/Auburn houses during football games and.......yeah, holy crap. Worst we had at K-State was having to wakeup in the middle of the night and clean the house and I don't even know if they do that anymore.

Some other pro's -

You have to regularly DD when you are a freshman but then you basically have a DD anytime your next 3 years.

The structure that being a pledge provides is beneficial to some people getting their first taste of freedom. Example - You have to go to classes, assigned study hours, people checking and caring about your grades that aren't your parents.

Other people have mentioned connections and it's true, being in a fraternity you just meet and form relationships with a lot more people than you would normally meet and stay in touch with. I'm in sales, I have personally made THOUSANDS of dollars just from people I knew in the fraternity. In B2B sales it's extremely helpful to have someone, anyone, you know who works at a company that could buy your services and help you get your foot in the door.

Another good post. As I said in a previous post, I basically just showed up on campus without any idea of how to do college. I'm pretty sure I could have graduated my small town HS in like a year if they had let me and i'm not a genius. I struggled my first year and I don't think I would have made it without fraternity study hours and others helping me and showing me how to go to class, prep for tests, write papers, etc. I never had to do any of that in HS. The structure really helped me.

[steve dave]

Small town schools and first generation college students are a very tough combination to overcome to have success in college. I was completely lost out the gates and took some lumps before I figured it out.


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[Stupid Fitz]

Small town schools and first generation college students are a very tough combination to overcome to have success in college. I was completely lost out the gates and took some lumps before I figured it out.


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Yep, I'll never forget showing up at my first day of college algebra. There were more people in that lecture than in my entire 7-12 grade HS. I noped the crap out of there really fast. I had to do classes like that in the summers in a smaller setting the first couple of years. I learned very quick that being small town smart in college was basically the equivalent of being that kid that ate rocks in your small town HS class.

[TheHamburglar]

Small town schools and first generation college students are a very tough combination to overcome to have success in college. I was completely lost out the gates and took some lumps before I figured it out.


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I’m not from a small town, both my parents went to college & my grandfather was an emeritus professor at K-State in Ag Education through the extension center in Garden City. He picked me up and took me to K-State a lot when he’d go to Manhattan for meetings.

Going to Fort Hays for 2 years to get my feet under me was still the smartest thing I’ve ever done. I would have drown going straight to Manhattan.

Living in Tulsa I tell people all the time that if their kids are on the fence & not excited to go to OU/OSU/Arkansas right away to send them to Pitt State (it’s in state tuition) for a couple years.

I’m in no way a Greek person & I would have lasted 5 minutes in a frat before I walked out. But if you’re going to a large university without any older siblings/cousins or someone else there for you, I can see how the Greek system would be a good community if it’s the right house for you. I tailgate with a couple that has twins in a frat at K-State right now & I think they’ve loved every second of it.

[star seed 7]

I pretty much never figured it out

[KST8FAN]

I think regardless of background, big hs school/little hs school, city, town, farm we all acquired the underlying skill sets growing up to rise to the challenge of college.

Marlatt might as well of been a Greek house.  It comes down to who you align yourself with, who you want to model your behavior after, who you find beneficial in your network.

I had no brothers, but I did have a neighbor I grew up with who went to kstate 2 years before I arrived. When I got there he let me hang around with his circle, which helped me immensely because they were all pretty serious about school. Several of those early acquaintances are still friends today.

Marching band provided access to another social network with the added benefit of being co-ed.  My wife and I marched beside each other.
 

Tom

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