Citizenship of Pi Kappa Alpha

Before this class I believed that citizenship is the state of being a citizen of a particular community. My definition now isn’t too far off from what it originally was; it just has a little more detail in it. Citizenship is a community of people that help support each other and benefit others around them.

How does my fraternity show citizenship?

Well I take that as, “how does my fraternity better the community it is around?” I say that with my fraternity being on 15^th we help develop the community around us by building stronger bonds with our Greek life by having open invitation to our bon fires and random events that we hold on our lawn. Granted we don’t get to go to every house to invite them or else that would just be chaotic, but it’s open. We better the Ohio State community by being awesome and showing that being Greek doesn’t mean we only drink.

We are badass in athletics granted only certain ones but we are working on it;

We are not skipping classes and are getting better grades;

 

We help out the unfortunate people by doing philanthropies to help better them;

 

We also try to keep our community clean by adopting a street and cleaning it up every other week.

Because my chapter does all of this stuff, I can say that Pike has changed my definition of citizenship because it shows me what type of citizens actually help the community and which ones don't, and the positive of the two helps me further my definition of citizenship because people should care about their community that they live in.

Also here is a kitty that my sister owns. Granted it's bigger now but this is my favorite picture of one of them:



Rawr



Panel Take Away

During the panel, I asked one question. I asked them, "What was their greatest difficult encounter while being Greek, and how they overcame it?"

I managed to take 2 things from my question, to be a better leader.

1) I took that I have to be more trusting of others. I grew up believing that I could trust people to get things done for me, but after many disappointments I decided that I couldn't rely on people to get things done for me, and that I should do things that I want done by myself. That has worked so far, granted sometimes when I would need help and I would ask for it, but I would still be there with them to make sure it gets done right. So I guess you can say I have a problem trusting people, but I would say I have a problem of people getting things done right in a timely manner. Trusting people might take some time to get used to, but once I have a lot of responsiblilties and I can't do everything I will have to rely upon people and be forced to used to it. The only thing that I don't want to happen to me is that I become lazy and put all of the work others and do nothing myself, because then I will become a person I dispise because they do nothing but expect everything.

2) I also learned that chapters/organizations should be more "transparent" because everyone should know what you have planned and why it is being done. We have personally had that problem in our chapter a decent amount this quarter. Some things aren't discussed at chapter and people are expected to be there when it was a randomly planned event. For example we made some pumpkins and wanted to carve it, we managed to carve it, but a lot of brothers said they wouldn't help because didn't know about it and had something "better" to do. This was planned by a few people and they expected everyone to help, but since we weren't transparent no one wanted to really help. I don't want to hear, "well I never knew we had to do this," or "why weren't we informed about this" ever again. I'm going to try to make my chapter more transparent so we are all on the same page from here on out.


On a lighter note. Here is a cute little panda dancing


Also here is a place that I want to go on vacation to one day:
http://justpaste.it/5ko

The place is Maldives

And it Looks Awesome!!!

PS: Click on the pictures for a bigger view of them

Oath

I am sorta confused of where to go with this I mean the prompt was one word... I guess I'll start by doing this:

Highlight the blank spot below to ready what it is :p  <--- yes I'm sticking my tounge out at you

Oath is a promise to yourself or your organization to uphold it's values and mission. I believe we all took an oath right before we joined our organization. We said that we would up hold our values and to try to live them everyday, to make sure we better our organization, to make sure we take care of each other.

How am I living up to the oath that I made? Well I can say that I honestly try to be myself. Being my I represent our slogan, S.L.A.G. Scholars Leaders Athletes Gentlemen. I readily study to make sure I don't feel dumb while taking quizes and exams, and to keep my grades up to get a better job. I am a leader because I do stuff before everyone asks because I am a leader by example, I can't say I'm too good at commanding people to do stuff. I am an athlete because I want to keep in shape no matter what because I want to be healthy for as long as I can and being active and working out regularly helps me do so. I can't say I'm much of a dick in any way unless I'm messing around with a person. I learned it from my mom to be a gentlemen to everyone and it has been engraved in my morals.

What else I am doing to uphold my oath. I personally take care of all of my brothers, friends, and family whenever they need help. I will generally stop doing whatever I'm doing to help them out because I know that if they are asking me then they either can't do it themselves and need actual help. I am a brothers keeper because I'm on constant watch when we are out partying to make sure all of my brothers are alright, and I keep track of my friends and make sure they don't get in a fight.

Well now can't really think of anything else to write about, but here is something fun that I stumbled upon while being bored.

http://atdpweb.soe.berkeley.edu/2130/tstadelman/websiteproject/jokes/zen_quotes.html

my favorite quote is this:
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

Also be happy live by some of these things:
http://www.globalone.tv/group/gratitude/forum/topics/21-habits-of-happy-people&title=The+Article+Title

The Bad...

One thing that we all can agree on in our visions and mission statements is that we all want to better ourselves, the community, and each other.  But there are some times in which we don’t follow to what our statements say or want. What is happening? We are doing stupid drunken stuff. This leads to society to look down on us, the Greek community.   This also giving people with the intent of being drunken messes to join Greek life, therefore keeping the stereotype going.

We need to stop being drunk everywhere. Granted most of the Greeks do drink on the weekends (including Thursdays). People see us with letters on being dumb at community service events, philanthropy events, and so on. Even though it is just a few people doing it most of the time during the day, what about night time when you have a social event, singing songs and yelling letters. Society already has a bad view of us; we don’t need to give them more reason do dislike us.

Most of us are SOCIAL fraternity/sorority but this doesn’t mean we need to belligerent or being stupid in front of others.  My definition of social is interacting with other people and making connections. That doesn’t mean we have to drink in order to fit the definition of social. I feel as though having other events like philanthropy events are social, as well as just ice cream socials, fire pit and smores and so on. We don’t have to have TG’s to be social, but that doesn’t exclude TG’s from being social in my definition. We just need to have them less than like once or twice every week, so we are less drunk in the community therefore we have less chance of doing something stupid.

We need to change how society views us. I mean look at everybody else in the world they drink, they get belligerent, they do stupid stuff, but they don’t have letters on representing a group. To the outside world the Greek letters we wear mean almost nothing the specific organization, they see the  Greeks as one big group. We need to wear our letters and do GOOD, not bad.

I Really Want A House Dog

Since there is no blog prompt this week, and I'm sorta bored and waiting to go some where here is a couple of things to maybe keep you busy.

Short, but freaking AWESOME!!!!!!


Same dog but still cute as hell


DOGGIE!!!!


Man I wish we could have a house dog. I would never get anything done though...