Fraternity Life
John Earnhardt discusses balancing fraternity involvement with his studies as a student at NC State.
Interview on 2012-11-15 00:00:00 -0500
Transcript
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My intent was to have a good social environment here, certainly secondary to doing the best I could academically
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and getting myself set for my future, and there were plenty of activities in the dorms and all.
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I mean I didn't need to go to a fraternity but I thought I would like to try that, and I did and I enjoyed it but I had my rules.
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I don't party in the week. When it's Friday afternoon, that's fine. Sunday at noon started the next week for me making sure I was ready.
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Never missed a class the whole time I was at NC State, I don't think. I really don't remember ever missing a class. Somebody had told me that-.
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And that was one of the concerns I had about being out remote from the campus, getting back on campus, that I - be a tendency to miss classes.
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I didn't want to do that. But it was fine, fraternity life was great, and that's where I had to start figuring out, well,
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how am I going to integrate social life and studies and things like that, and there was nobody supervising that.
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I mean I could hear my mother talking in one ear and my dad talking in the other. They weren't there but I mean, you know,
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I did a respectable balance of that, but I really enjoyed the fraternity life, the academic life, the sports on campus, and that kind of thing.
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