You’ve just sold the books you never opened back to the university for beer money. Your sorostitute of choice is sporting constant tan lines. The weather’s heating up, and school has wound down…but just because you are no longer in class doesn’t mean that you should decrease your fratty activities a bit. In fact, the summer provides opportunities to frat hard that don’t come around any other time of year. In this lesson, we will discuss several options that you should explore in order to assure that the summer air will be filled with fratitude.
Beach: Nothing even needs to be said here…the beach affords many opportunities to frat hard, bronze, drink copious amounts of frat water, and observe bikinized sorostitutes in their natural habitat. All of our suggestions for spring break apply during the summer as well.
Overseas Vacation: Is going to the beach too pedestrian to an advanced fratter like you? Well, then try a beach in France. Overseas vacations can provide a multitude of chances to give your frat gland a strenuous workout. For one, you get a chance to meet other top notch fratdaddies and sorostitutes who spend their holiday across the pond. Next, you will get to sample foods and drinks that you can only find copies of here in America. Keep in mind, Germany is the home of the world’s finest frat water. If you want to truly blow those around you out of the fratsmosphere, head to Italy and show off the wine knowledge you acquired after reading our Fratty Activities 301 lesson on wine tasting.
Rush Parties: If you leave campus for the summer, you have to be sure to get back in time to attend the events that start the process of grooming the fratdaddies of tomorrow. I’m speaking of course of the time honored rush party, where, in the words of David Wooderson, “I keep getting older, and the rushee girls just stay the same age.” She has to learn about shacking from someone..it might as well be you.
The Obvious: Some summer activities need no introduction or explanation. You should get in as much of the following as possible: golfing, tennis, boating, deep sea fishing, drinking, shacking, and other such normal fratty activities.
In short, you should do all the things you usually do, while using your new found free time to take fratting hard to the next level. They say that the human body’s muscles grow the most during your sleep. Summer is the “sleep” that can make your frat gland look like it’s on human growth hormone.
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I’ve got a question:
At your school, are the sororities allowed to recruit over the summer?
At mine, nobody is allowed to contact the incoming freshmen before rush week. We get our leads from a checkoff card send to all the freshmen.
what is the frattiest summer job? To try to get a good internship that will further your knowledge in your future fratting adventures, or something simple, that requires no time/effort, so that you have more time to do the aforementioned activities?
UT Fratty:
The frattiest of jobs are those that of course further your social network while allowing you frat hard every night of the week. Your brothers should have given you the proper opportunity to meet the CEOs and CFOs of enough major companies to open the door for you. Fratting is in the blood, and these rulers of the business world will always look out for you.
No matter what the city, you should look for your internship to be in close proximity to events that transpire after 5pm. In a city such as Atlanta, you would want to work in Buckhead. This not only allows you to begin your frat tabbing immediately after work, but sorostitutes whom have graduated live and work in these midtown areas bequeaths you nearly unlimited shacking up potential.
Your internship is your gateway to your career. Choose a job that will ensure you meet further contacts for your post college fratting. Jobs related to activities such as investment banking, medical sales and Real Estate REITs generally employ a significant amount of sorostitutes as they have the social skills to sell fratdaddys at both trade shows and the bar. These companies also typically reside in higher rent districts in metropolitan areas and not in the suburbs. This will directly influence which downtown condominium you will have your parents bankroll while attending your summer internship
Be sure when interviewing for the internship make sure your immediate boss or his boss has a good level of fratitude (the higher up the better), these men in power often influence the level of douchbaggery you will find in the corporate world and ensure an aurora of fratitude at all times. Furthermore this will make showing up to work still intoxicated on Fridays not only acceptable, but encouraged for showing your firm’s out of town clients and the sorostitutes of the firm a fun time on Thursday night. An ideal summer internship will have an unlimited expense account for your frat tab, with the corporate credit card to boot.
If working in a major city make sure that your frathoe will fit in the parking garage, only GDI’s take public transportation (game day exceptions do apply if the pledges are performing other duties).
At no time is it acceptable for a fratdaddy to work in the service industry. Waiters, mechanics, pool boys are all the results of an individual choosing to be a GDI. It is better to bronze on the beach and drink frat water in France at your Brother’s villa than to hold a summer internship making less that $15,000 over the course of the break (roughly 45k per year when annualized).
One of the Frattiest Summer Jobs would have to be Commerical Real Estate Development. Hands down.
DCFratStar:
Very true, for those wish to enter into this world, I highly recommend you attend the International Conference of Shopping Centers (ICSC) spring convention in Vegas, later this month. All the major national retail developers will be there. Registration fees are $940, but flash a student ID you get in for $50. Well worth the plane ticket to get into the development world.
Info: http://www.icsc.org/2007SC/sc07_register.php?print=yes
List of attendees: http://exhibits.icsc.org/2007SC/public/ExhibitorList.aspx?ID=94&sortMenu=103003&exp=5%2f15%2f2007+6%3a11%3a35+AM
The truly upper echelons of FratLords don’t even need to work over the summer. After all, you don’t need an extensive list of internships to take over the Old Man’s firm once he retires.
There is a difference between having family money and being spoiled and lazy. Spoiled and lazy is definately not fratty.
There is a difference between having family money and being spoiled and lazy. Spoiled and lazy is definitely not fratty.
Lifeguarding/Caddying at the country club was the frattiest job you could have in high school. Not GDI at all. Some of my friends caddy (for pros and business men) in the summer making 2000+ a week. Make bank, golf, and make connections, don’t see anything wrong with that.
well, im an intern and it hasn’t been fratty so far, but i’m working my way up and in a few more weeks i’ll be a lot better. i was told i’d be working inside with computers and quality control tests, (which isn’t hard), so i show up for work the first day in slacks and a fratty oxford shirt. well, the gdi’s, (yeah, couldn’t find frat connections in packaging industry close by), said they needed me in the maintenance room. so there i am working in the maintenance stock room with guys in steel toes compared to my dock siders, jeans compared to my freshly pressed slacks, motorcycle shirt to my oxford, and safety glasses to my sunglasses around my neck via croakie. anyway, i’m still working my way up, but i managed to frat hard despite the light labor of stocking shelves.
working with computers isnt fratty you GDI nerd
i’ll agree that in most cases working with computers isn’t fratty, but im interning at a consulting firm this summer and getting paid $12k over two months, but I’m focused on IT, which means im working with computers and databases (which only nerddy GDI CS majors should be working with, but since they can’t fix their own problems they call us consultants). Not bad for an incoming junior (Of course those multiple recommendations from alumni who are now execs at major companies helped). For the panel interview I was flown out first class and booked at a luxury hotel. I’d say that that’s pretty fratty.
60 minute man is a frat god!!!!!
Well i got a summer internship with Flair Magizine. It is a good modeling oppurtunity and i get to show off some of the newest designs such as dragon tees and this new color of “flair” jeens with many selective tears. Let me know if that is counted as fratty!
I’m not working WITH computers, I hate them, but I’m working on projects with them…there’s a difference, I’m not fixing them, but trying to get stuff done by using them mcpherson
One more thing, I never said it was a fratty job because it’s not…I’m just trying to make a fratty situation out of a douchebag one
60 Minute Man is merely just fratting in spirit. He is surrounded by douchebags at work and instead of having that put him down, he is just fratting even harder. Keep it up.
My summer internship is with a landscape design firm in South Carolina. I’m in close range to fratmecca Charleston, and only hours away from the parent’s vacation home in Sea Pines on Hilton Head. Not only is the pay remarkable for two and a half months of work and the fratmosphere through the roof, but the connections made are truly beneficial. Not to mention Friday afternoons are reserved for frattabbing at the country club while getting in a nice 18 with the 9 other gentlemen in the office. A solid way to set off a weekend.
The first project I will be working on is in the development of a new golf course in the Myrtle Beach area set for construction around 2009. Maybe someday ya’ll will be on my course.
Whatever it is you choose to do, you are the best barometer for your own fratmosphere. Act accordingly, socialize as necessary, and as always, frat as hard as possible.
Regards,
Fratrick
Fratrick…Thats awesome, most of the time landscape design wouldn’t be very fratty, but on a golf course, that changes everything, especially the courses around the coast. Get that handicap down this summer.
Since it’s almost summer, is it fratty to have chest hair? Or should it be shaved off? Or merely trimmed?
maybe you should come out with a summer beach/pool attire section and what is the suitable demeanor of a fratter
fratelli, there is place for chest hair. it needs to be kept under control however so you don’t end up looking like teen wolf. i would say chest hair is one way to distance yourself from the clean shaven douchebags you often encounter on the beach
Fratelli,
Chest hair should never be shaved. Shaving body hair is the sort of personal grooming that goes beyond what the fratdaddy should be concerned with. If one chooses not to show the chest hair while wearing normal clothes, one should simply wear clothing that substantially covers it.
During the summer when more skin is shown, frat the chest hair with pride.
Also, the frattiest sororities are told they can’t recruit during the summer, but they do anyway.
60 Minute Man,
Landscape architecture conjure up images of Mexicans laying sod, raking leaves and planting flowers. Not the case on the design end, especially with golf courses. Some of the best designers in the world were former pro’s, arguably the frattiest job in the world. And yes, that handicap will be cut in half if I keep playing with the caliber of players in my foursomes of late.
Regards,
Fratrick
The summer is a very important time for the fratty undergrad- I suggest that you don’t work much and take full advantage of it. There is no real such thing as a fully enjoyable summer for the post-grad fratter; we instead see it come and go at work and say “fuck, it sure is hot today” while the rest of you should be at the beach. Speaking of the beach- if you do have an internship or a job, ensure that you make time to still rock some road trips to the beach and other great destinations. Make the best of your undergrad years while you can.
To you sorostitutes- get down to Panama City on daddy’s tab, there’s plenty of post-grad fratdaddies in army flight school down here every weekend with too much money and who’d be more than happy to show you a good time…
i am working as a clerk for a pretty prestigous judge here in south carolina. the work is tough, but the job gives the opportunity to frat my ass off.
I just got back from sailing for a few days…..nothing like the open seas and a couple of cases of frat water to start the summer off right.
It seems strange that some people already are in summer break. Summer at my school is July 1st to September 31st.
Okay, so Ive been friends with this girl for about 2 years now and we recently started dating. Shes a “little sister” of our frat and friends with all my PC. The only thing is shes a non-sorostitute. Is it acceptable for a fratdaddy to date a gorgeous girl who isnt greek?
No.
Yes, Bob’s obviously a homosexual.
if you’re alright with never going to any sorority functions
First never call it your frat. Second, sometimes the right girl just isn’t greek. I went through a number of sorostitutes and although they’re fun, they and their sorority often come with a lot of unnecessary drama - I’d rather be fishing than put up with a lot of that shit. Plus, lookin back on some of these girls, I definitely wouldn’t want them to be the mother of my kids, for a number of reasons.
Besides, if your fraternity’s got its act together, there should be a number of events throughout the year for you to get in enough action w/o having to latch onto some sorority event.
Ditto armyfrat6, its fraternity not frat, secondly if you are shacking with a hot chick, who cares if she is in a sorority or not, the fact that shes in a sorority just means shes a different piece of tail to pull. The object of the end of the day is pulling tail, sorostitute or not. Besides when you shack with a sorostitute, youre shacking with the whole sorority chapter as they talk way too much. A bad reputation can be devastating.
Deke,
Funniest comment I’ve read all day… On the topic of the the word “frat”, this has been discussed through and through, either in other postings or through general discourse with brothers. A few primary points from arguments of past:
-One should not refer to their fraternity as a frat. Period. Such a slip-up shows not only a lack of honor for long held traditions, but quite honestly is about one blink away from being a total GDI move. Yank’s call them “frats”.
-Frat can/should be used as a modifier (i.e. the word of the week is “fratio”, you drive a “frathoe”, etc.) or as an adjective, like “Holy shit, Clark racked up a $300 at the country club last night, he was fratting hard.”
-Never should it be used as a noun. Ever.
If you’re scratching your head trying to think back to basic grammar for the definitions of those words, leave your fraternity, drop out of school, and get a jump start on your career in retail. The world always needs Old Navy employees. You’ll be doing your school’s panhellenic council a service.
Regards,
Fratrick
Fratrick,
Correct. We (obviously) use the word “frat” around here a lot, but it is NEVER to be used as a noun referring to the Greek organization of which you are a member.
fratrick tries to hard
if i was not so fratty i would say that Fatrick was a toolbag.
agreed. ‘frat’ in the noun form is frequently used by ignorant GDIs when they refer to any/all fraternities. no self-respecting fratdaddy should ever speak in such a manner. the douchebaggery surrounding its use is how we as fratdaddies verbally point out GDIs and other unfratty persons. that is ofcourse if their actions weren’t already rife with douchebaggery.
I will be working this summer for my dad’s vineyard management/wine business. not super fratty but leaves plenty of time for spending the weekends at the lake house and the evenings playing golf and tennis. plus the the wine industry can be very fratty at times.
Beaver Believer, are you serious? Not super fratty? Thats one of the sickest/frattiest summer jobs possible. I’m working at a local hiking store this summer. Not too cool, but I get done at 5:30 which means Ill always get a good 18 in before it gets dark. Plus great discounts on all the cool shit.
Alright, here’s something that hasn’t really been discussed fully. Is it ever OK to work for a Democrat? I’m headed to law school in the fall and I’m interning this summer for a Democratic Senator. Am I a douchebag?
Hey Neidermeyer, how about a post on this topic - can you be fratastic and a Democrat at the same time?
(Answer: yes)
UVa Alum which fraternity were you in at UVa?
I’m just going to throw this out there again…
we need a forum, that would be tremendously fratty
UVA Alum,
Democrats are scum. No self-respecting fratdaddy would ever be raised to support a democrat; not unless they love taxes, female presidential nominees, and abortion.
as well as same sex marriage, coddling sex offenders, and equal rights for border jumpers and yard apes.
Beaver Believer, are you from OSU???
In my opinion, politics are immaterial to living the good life. You should have the resources to not care about taxes one way or the other. Personally, if I needed to volunteer or get an internship on a campaign to further my career or make connections, I’d go for the best and highest up I can get. I feel that political viewpoint is irrelevant to fratitude, exluding the obvious commies and anarchists. Anyway, let’s just make sure this doesn’t turn into a pointless argument over liberal vs. conservative. The system works just fine regardless of who’s in charge.
bitching about politics on frattinghard.com = unfratty. in fact, it smells of vinegar. it varies so much from state to state we probably should just leave the topic alone. lets keep our eyes on the #1 priority, fratting as hard as possible. it’s somewhat hard to do this if we waste our time arguing about politics and fashion all the damn time. let’s sum it up: Politics- stay informed. Fashion- don’t dress like a douchebag. use good judgement, it’s pretty simple. now it’s time to heavily consume fratwater
That’s well said, pledgefetchmeabeer. I agree 100%.
Agreed. Also, a reminder about this long holiday weekend- Panama City will be hittin hard. I’ll be the fratdaddy behind La Velas running the beach party and pong table (which has been very successful the last few months, so come by if you’re any good)
I just got my fratty summer all planned out. First a couple of months doing little but drinking, shacking, and perhaps working a little at my dads company. Then a month long trip to Australia where one of my brothers and I will drink and shack our way up the coast. Hopefully Aussie girls like Frat-daddies.
no one is bitching about politics, just informing that yall are obviously liberal chaches from a densily populated northern community. that is all.
Says “Jay Gatsby” a liberal, nuovou-riche twat.
en francais. Je l’aime.
My summer is all planned, sailing to Spain from the Cannes to watch the America’s Cup on a 90 foot boat, then heading back to France to relax at my family beach house in a small beach town.
In Arkansas our Governor is a Sigma Pi, Attorney General is a Kappa Sig and one of our US Senators (who I interned for) is an SAE all from the state SEC school in Arkansas. Additionally the Chairman of the Democratic Party owns Car Dealerships, which is the frattiest occupation of all time. They are all Democrats. If you’re fratty then politics shouldn’t matter.
Typical uneducated republican talk about politics…..
Say what you want about which political parties are frat, but the simple facts are, the suceeding party of the civil war were in fact SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS, the party has lost a lot of it’s swager because many of them have sold out and become republicans. Those yankee liberals you love to hate were in fact REPUBLICAN once upon a time, see Abe Lincoln or in fact Richard Nixon from GDI central california.
The beauty of fraternity is it transcends the borders of politics and brings together all spectrums of the political world on principles of enjoyement, gluttiny and consumption. Frat on and leave the politics to those who know what they’re talking about…
forgot to mention, excellent points ARfrat, where did you frat at on the glorious hill?
ARSAE, perhaps you should stop sleeping in history class or at least have some knowledge of our history. The Southern Democrats, you speak of, had similar conservative views to those of modern day republicans. The republicans of that time were much more left-wing akin to modern day democrats. So here is a short history lesson for you.
The New Deal (set forth by FDR) began to liberalize Democrats as a whole, while Southern Democrats largely stayed as conservative as they had always been. Some left the party to form farther right-wing parties such as the Dixiecrats. After the civil rights movement changed Jim Crow laws and other forms of segregation laws Democrats as a whole became the symbol of the mainstream left of the United States. At this point most “Southern Democrats” defected to the Republican Party and accelerated the Republican party into a much more conservative organization. The South is now largely controlled by the GOP.
So if your great grandfather was a “Southern Democrat” that would be fratty but you being a democrat would most likely mean that you are a liberal who supports ridiculous policies such as gun control, affirmative action, higher taxes, and gay marriage (Definetly unfratty policies). There are definetly shades of grey though and there may be fratty democrats who are more right wing (IE Sunny Purdue, well before he switched parties).
In anycase it is not exclusive that to be fratty you must be a republican. Its just that being fratty is associated with being conservative and thus most likely you will be a republican
Being a pro-business, limited government Republican is fratty. Being a demagogue on social issues, which the Republican party in Arkansas and the US has been leaning towards recently, definitely Unfratty.
I definetly agree with you ARfrat. the republican party is far from perfect, its just generally better than the democratic party. Perhaps the worst example of this is the legislation presented by President Bush to make all illegal immigrants living in the US legal.
If your going to Europe for Summer stop in London for a few weeks. The British drink like there is no tomorrow! Super Fratty!
ARSAE, I assume you spent time on the Hill? The Capitol Hill Club happy hour on Fridays always had a nice fratmosphere. Town Hall was awesome and Smith Point was cool, but I still think the list is gay and very northern-like.
lol - this is classic.
Frats…
Is it fratty to write “lol” on a forum?
no
no never use “lol”
nothing like reggata season in charleston
my summer job consists of using scholarship checks to fund living in my off campus house and drinking all summer. while the majority of camps is taking class, i’m waking up at 2pm, pregaming by 5 with some outdoor drinking games, then heading up to the bars to meet all the sorostitues that need release from a week full of physics. wake up the next morning at 930am because the girl shacking at my place has a quiz in her 9 oclock that she just missed, fall back asleep, and do it all over again
Back on the topic of fratty jobs, consulting…
It’s been said that pool boys are GDI’s, but working at the country club pool bar can be fratty at times
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