{"id":4972,"date":"2021-04-13T12:48:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T17:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=4972"},"modified":"2021-04-11T21:44:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T02:44:26","slug":"im-an-alpha-delt-pledge-and-youre-a-loser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/13\/im-an-alpha-delt-pledge-and-youre-a-loser\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m an Alpha Delt Pledge and You\u2019re a Loser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ve spent my life until this point looking for people as cool as me. I was the coolest kid in high school, even if no one else thought so. I had my lunch table all to myself. I even started on the football team until a better water-boy took my spot. Originally I feared that no one at UChicago would be on my level either.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enter Alpha Delta Phi. On my first day on campus, I stepped off the quad to a chorus of \u201cRush Alpha Delt!\u201d and looked up to see my future lovers \u2013 I mean Brothers \u2013\u00a0jamming out to the sickest beat drops of 2010. My favorite playlist! I knew I\u2019d found a home. I would do anything for the honor of scrubbing their floors and drinking their expired Natty Light.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My admiration for the brothers only grew as I saw the deep reverence accorded them on campus. It\u2019s common knowledge \u2013 their numerous contributions to the university community go without saying. And whenever I\u2019m in a conversation trying to show someone how cool I am, all I have to do is mention that I\u2019m an Alpha Delt pledge. Boom, conversation over. No one can top that. Most people just walk away. Pfft, losers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I must say that I will dearly miss being on the receiving end of all the abuse; I\u2019m getting so much attention from the coolest dudes I\u2019ve ever met. Maybe even as a second year I can ask the Brothers to continue subjecting me to beer runs and beatings with the incoming pledge class.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Honestly, though, all the hype around \u201cselective\u201d admissions and I haven\u2019t met a single cool dude outside of Alpha Delt. How is it that admissions made a mistake with everyone except the small minority of us Brothers?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve spent my life until this point looking for people as cool as me. I was the coolest kid in high school, even if no one else thought so. I had my lunch table all to myself. I even started on the football team until a better water-boy took my spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4994,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972\/revisions\/4994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}