For every hero, there lies a villain. For every frat-star, there lies a GDI. Let’s delve into a vocabulary lesson. GDI: God Damn Independent. For those in college who choose to live a life of solitary confinement, a meager contact list and ice cream socials, this lifestyle is for you. They forgo the opportunity of fraternity stardom, quite possibly the worst decision of one’s life. GDI’s are the nerds of the university, those who make the educational institution so respectable. They’re a parent’s dream-child. No alcohol, no partying and no enjoyment of life whatsoever. When they leave college, their footprint is as valuable as Bernie Madoff’s investments. Fraternity guys hate them. They’re the honorable recipients of our tactful heckling.
Fist off, their attire just isn’t acceptable. I don’t think they’ve ever been introduced to boat shoes and a quality polo shirt. A visor? Hell no. They wear backwards baseball caps and rice picker cones atop their heads. The Greek alphabet is a foreign language to them, and it’s truly unacceptable. For such geniuses, you’d think they would acquire the partying language. They walk around with rolling backpacks and a pencil behind their ears. Yea, they’re probably the one’s who will cure you of cancer one day. But until then, fuck them.
So who cares if a GDI will someday be my boss? I’m planning on winning the lottery anyways. College gives you 4 years of experimentation and unlimited chances. I’d rather blow 8 out of my 9 lives on partying, rather than stuffing my head into a book for 4 years straight. Everyone finds a job eventually, and luck usually plays the largest role in making it big. Don’t even argue that one.
Top 3 Reasons Why Fraternity Guys Hate GDI’s:
3) At times, they make us look bad. Their flawless GPA’s and lack of arrests are just unacceptable. They stand firm as model students. But hey, we all need to be well rounded. Yet, they’re obviously lacking in the partying category.
2) Their attire defames southern class. Unless you’re joining the Jersey Shore frat, there lies an inherent need for Polos, boat shoes and a visor. It’s a way of life. Wearing tight jeans and a math-club t-shirt… need I say more?
1) They run the university. Student government oozes independents. They devote their lives to campaigning, and making life tough for Greeks. They preach change, and suck off the administration while they’re at it. They shut down our parties and make us jump through hoops. Just not cool.
Every GDI would benefit from a life within the brotherhood. A dose of pledgeship would whip them into shape, and most of all, turn them into the ideal fraternity guy.
It’s not hazing. It’s brotherhood.
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No wonder frats are considered useless. Look at this shit article! 5 top reasons why people hate GDIs and there are only 3? Thank god I was a GDI. At least I learned to count from school..fucking useless fratties.
^^^ awww look who couldn’t survive pledgeship, or even get invited into a fraternity in the first place. GDI’s are gay.
Yea, notice how the only people who say they are glad they didn’t join a frat are the GDIs, and it’s definitely not all of them. However, it’s never the other way around.
so basically,
if you join a frat and don’t work hard in school, you’ll just get really lucky and get a sweet job under someone not “privileged” enough to join a fraternity. sounds like a recipe for success, as im sure when your done with 4 years of dipping, exposing yourself to other males and grabbing tits, the only natural response is to be down to run a 9-5 to the fullest. or winning the lottery, because that’s obviously legit. 4 years is a whole lot shorter than life bro, and personally im enjoying the full benefits of frat membership (free beer, ….) without ever needing to turn over a semester of my life, but im sure ill enjoy the library this weekend.
faggots.
Yeah bullshit will a gdi EVER be the boss of me. This site and article is for jeeds being in a fraternity means we have more money than a jeed ever will and will be the boss of their fathers upon graduation. This site is retarded. TFM
So, basically, you’re a mooch who thinks they get all the benefits of Greek Life because they beg and plead for brothers to let them into parties. Congratulations. I can’t get over how cool you are. There definitely isn’t any aspect of brotherhood to Greek Life, or enjoyment in actually throwing parties… Basically, it’s the exact same people who bitch about Greek Life who are constantly trying really hard to get in. It’s people in Greek Life that make a campus party atmosphere what it is, and instead of calling us out, you should be thanking us that not EVERY single one of your nights involved wishing you had friends. Greek Life, and Pledging, teaches you so much about getting along as a group. You’re always pledging, no matter what you’re doing, so it might as well be formal early on, so you know what to take.
And rooting for the Raiders? Seriously? Have fun making the playoffs…
http://www.forbes.com/2003/01/31/cx_dd_0131frat.html
“about a quarter of all chief executives on the Forbes Super 500 list of America’s largest corporations were members of college fraternities.”
“A mere 8.5% of full-time university undergraduates are members of either a fraternity or a sorority. Not only have fraternities been the breeding ground of those 120 Forbes 500s chief executive officers, they also have spawned 48% of all U.S. presidents, 42% of U.S. senators, 30% of U.S. congressmen, and 40% of U.S. Supreme Court justices”
Suck it.
Hey “dumbasses” you do realize that means 76% of Forbes 500, 52% of presidents, 58% of senators, 70% of congressmen and 60% of justices were NOT members. Doesn’t really give frat boys bragging rights when you are the minority of every category you named.
We are selling some GDI shirts!
What’s your label?
Huh?
I mean, what Sorority are you in?
None, I’m a human, an individual one even
No you’re a GDI
http://www.squeezemytees.com/5/god-damn-independent
“Hey “dumbasses” you do realize that means 76% of Forbes 500, 52% of presidents, 58% of senators, 70% of congressmen and 60% of justices were NOT members. Doesn’t really give frat boys bragging rights when you are the minority of every category you named.”
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Your the fucking retard. If only 8.5% of college graduates are greek, yet an average of 35-40% of judges, congressmen, presidents, and CEOS were greek, that means there is a positive CORRELATION between SUCCESS and GOING GREEK.
best parts about being in a house on campus -
1) my dues covered a house and meal plan and was on average about 2 grand less/semester than what a gdi paid
2) alumni corp. football tailgating was free
3) almost everyone in the house was involved with some other aspect of campus life; for instance, the 10 other brothers in army rotc with me.
4) formals, socials, bbqs, boating, ski trips
5) we had to maintain a 3.0 to be an active member – we had a house library where we kept study materials and 24hr quiet room.
yeah, i should have never joined Theta Chi and passed up so many advantages
lol ATO – you’re vs your… I wonder if there are greek life statistics regarding doctors – the learned, noble career.
I hate GDI’s as much as the next fratter but this is not frat at all, being a worthless piece of shit is not frat. Raging hard, and still having your shit on lock because you KNOW that you are better than GDI’s and will be THEIR bosses some day. Thats what fratting is all about. But you are probably a Pike so it makes sense.
I rushed, pledged, got initiated, and joined. Two years later from being a frattie because my friends were doing it, I’m proud to be a God Damn Independent. The fraternity I was in wasn’t too bad with hazing or just being straight up douches. Sure there were a few but not as bad as some others I’ve seen. Still I hated being ‘nf/not frat’ for wearing american eagle and not polo. I hated getting ridiculed for the people I hung out with outside of the frat. I hate having a damn schedule to follow and going to work instead of a meeting or a part was a gdi move. Stupid. So once again. Proud to be a GDI!
“I hate GDI’s as much as the next fratter but this is not frat at all, being a worthless piece of shit is not frat. Raging hard, and still having your shit on lock because you KNOW that you are better than GDI’s and will be THEIR bosses some day. Thats what fratting is all about. But you are probably a Pike so it makes sense.”
Fuck you. This is about putting down fuckin GDI’s. I would rather be a Pike than a GDI anyday
Phi Phi I think I got cum in my eye
must have been that Phi Phi frat guy
god I hate all guy Phi Phi’s
GDI or Greek, doesn’t matter. I know plenty of “weird” greeks who would never get laid and plenty of GDI that have more friends than frat stars. Its more of a matter of personality. If you are cool, being in a GDI doesn’t change that. If you are creepy, being in a frat isn’t going to help. I go to a Big Ten school with one of the biggest greek systems in the country (if not the biggest). College is suppose to be about getting an education and making connections (for business students, most likely by getting drunk every weekend and most weekdays). Some people need a fraternity to do this, others do not. Or there is always the third class of people who are in the greek system but don’t belong to any particular house. They are the true “Kings” on campus.
The fact that many frat boys get high end jobs is simply because of connections. Mostly, these have no connection to pledging. Think about it. Who joins the greek system? A majority of over-priveleged, white, rich kids. So, who hires these kids who don’t have the proper qualifications? Their daddies or their daddies’ rich buddies. So, whoopie for you. You were rich and now you will stay rich by sponging off your parents for life. Also, politics? That’s your example for success? Politics is the arena for all that are inept, secretly soliciting kinky gay sex, or blatantly corrupt.
We beat the shit out of the gdi competition in our school, higher gpa than the business school average, and we party harder than everybody else on campus. so yeah definitely not regretting that decision there.
Sounds like you’re mad bro. Did you leave your rufies in the car your daddy bought you? Did your orange skinned girlfriend peel all over your brand new polo? Maybe you just ran out of steroids or your penis pump finally broke. It’s really no reason to get all worked up man, the bro’s will forgive you as long as you keep drinking natty light and giving cheap blowjobs. But next time you decide to vent on the internet because the hipster across the hall stole the girl you were planning on date-raping, just sit quietly, close your eyes, and count to ten, all the while breathing slowly and remembering that everybody around you views you as a complete douchebag. Meditation is good for the soul.
The reason the “Greeks” (get over it, you’re not Greek. . .this is the United States) have a higher gpa than the rest of us (and personally, I’m a Dean’s List student), is because there’s a gpa requirement to be in a frat or sorority! If there weren’t this requirement, y’all would have the lowest gpa on campus, so don’t even fret it. Get over yourselves. And FYI, I can get laid or party or whatever whenever I want. I don’t need to be “Greek” to do it.
JUST PLAIN DUMB AMERICANS.
OMG
Everyone is drinking and partying. THat means that the cool kids drink. HAHA I gotta drink too to make me belong. I Have no brain. I just follow. THose kids who are the ones who gave us tvs, computers, ipods. “fuck them”
Im so cool. I party all day and don’t do hw and expect everything to come to me. I will win lottery for sure and have a good life. Someone else work harder than me. NO Problem. Im a dumbshit american.
YOU fucker frat stars won’t get anything. U fuckers deserve to get boated to AFrica and serve some hardship.
NO DIsipline.
LIFe too comfortable.
Ur mommies and daddies give u everything. MAKE America Fail.
THATS why economy is down.
Cuz fucking 85% former frat members run the fuckign country. What a bunch of fuckign jokes.
^^^ok then have fun not drinking……
The war is retarded. There are two extreme sides… one are the frat dudes you will find in the tool shed aka their frat house, and the other extreme side are the really nerdy kids who play world of warcraft 24/7.
Frat dudes who think youre the shit…get over yourself, your parents paid for you to be in that frat and probably paid for all you awfully rigid polo shirts. Cmon guys, it looks like you blew the easter bunny and he shot his pastel colored cum all over your shirts. And crabs and shit on your shorts are seriously just gay. Stop thinking youre the shit because youre in a frat because you honestly are not. If you are a frat guy that makes fun of GDI’s what are you saying? That youre DEPENDENT on your so called “brothers”? They are not your brothers retards! Just because youve had a few beers with them and used them to get girls doesnt make them brothers. Seriously guys, get the fuck over yourself and back into reality.
As for “GDIs”… I am a gdi and proud to be one. I am not however what a frat guy considers a gdi. I hate cargos, I cant stand the wallstreet protests, and i hate hipsters as much as the next NORMAL person. But there are some gdis i guess that are weird as shit and play video games and study all the time. those guys are called losers, not independents. stop wearing fuckin cargo shorts, doing weird hippy things, and believing that negative and positive spirits are all around..because youre just being weird as shit.
If youre cool, youre cool whether or not youre in a frat or not. I have a lot of frat friends and a lot of gdi friends…I also hate a lot of frat dudes and a lot of gdis
If theres one thing we can all agree on its that All sorostitutes are stupid bitches
the summer before i went off to college some fugly ginger guy told me i’d have to join a sorority or else i would be labelled an “independent.” As if some lame label mattered to me. When I saw the people who give that label, let me tell you, I’m glad I stayed “independent.” those people all look the same… and they want to!! there is nothing more pathetic than that.
There was a sorority on my campus we called the “oompa loompas” because each and every one of them had a fake orange tan. You people think you’re laughing at us, but in reality – we’re all laughing a lot harder at you! I had a far better time in school not having to waste my time trying to be some scab whore who had to fake tan to feel better about herself. Those types always hated me anyways – I’m naturally hot, they’re not.
I did actually consider joining though… I went to a recruitment thing with a friend and we both took bong hits beforehand. The girls we had to talk to had fake drawn-on eyebrows (each of them had plucked out their real brows) and I busted out laughing at one of them.. and then so did my friend. We left the room laughing. They looked like plastic people! LOL. ah memories.
another time a frat guy was hitting on me at a bar and his loser sorority gf got pissed at me. he stuck up for me. she felt like crap. guy was a loser anyways tho. thanks for the free beers, dumbass!
Who the fuck cares? If you wanna go greek, fucking do it. If you make it, kudos to you; just don’t turn into an asshole like so many do – it’s really easy to be a dick when you’re surrounded by them.
If you rush and don’t make it, get the fuck over it. You weren’t what the fuck they wanted. Don’t go around bitching about frats just because you couldn’t get into one.
If you’re a GDI and you just didn’t want to join a frat, cool. Just don’t turn into some self-righteous asshole who thinks you’re better for not being in a frat.
Also, being in a frat isn’t the only way to make friends, party, and have fun in college. There’s more shit in college than just Greek Life, even though that’s the most guaranteed way to always have somebody to party with.
Lastly, to all of those who were taking this article to mean that GDI’s suck: read it again. Its written ironically, you dumbasses.
“about a quarter of all chief executives on the Forbes Super 500 list of America’s largest corporations were members of college fraternities.”
So the remaining 3 quarter or 75% were not members of fraternities?
Wow, looks like you cant count for real. fucking retard.
I got a bid to a frat turned it down, making 110K a year and im 21 years old.
I hope you fratters enjoy these years, they are all you will ever have
Heres the deal ladies. As a current GDI member I will proudly say that a particular scool in the midwest has cancelled the coveted beer olympics because they could not compete with any of the GDI’s at the university. On another not GDI raises, donates, and gives more money than any other organization on campus. More than 4 times of any fraternity. GDI parties harder and works harder than most fraternities have ever dreamed and as I recal the heads of several large companies were former GDI’s. So you most likely work for a GDI who probably makes a shit load more money than any pansy ass frat douche ever made. So think again before you are so fast to cut GDI.
gdi’s are a bunch of pussies