I started college in 1978, the year Animal House came out, so fraternities suddenly became cool again after declining in popularity during the 60s and 70s.
We don't have the same customs here - no sororities or fraternities. Most of the universities have colleges or housing where students can live on or close to campus. The older unis have same-gender colleges; the newer ones are co-ed. But these residences don't form clubs. But these tend to be very expensive, so most students live in privately rented rooms and share-houses in suburbs close by.
Every university has its official alumni of graduates - but these amount to a year-book and a registry. They don't result in social connections. None of the unis has cottoned on to the American idea of encouraging a sense of identification - so they don't get many endowments from successful former students. With the exception of the middle-class, Australians tend to be irreverent towards authority - they're suspicious of both power and knowledge.
The friendships formed at uni tend to be personal and quite chancy - who you happen to meet during tutorials, in the student quadrangles, the libraries, the common rooms or the cafés.
This post was edited by inky at November 26, 2019 1:49 PM MST
No college wanted me ,so I'm self taunt .....I belonged to my parents and now belong to who I live with....i also have no idea wat the last S&F WURDS mean.... :( Im just a dumb ares really that's fourever going through a bad spell.....:(
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