Philanthropic fund raisers. Supporting university life and other on-campus events. Risk reduction at parties. Being dependable and loyal. Learning to navigate a

Philanthropic fund raisers. Supporting university life and other on-campus events. Risk reduction at parties. Being dependable and loyal. Learning to navigate and manage a small business by managing chapter affairs. Learning to separate the talkers from the doers. Being there for your buddies through deaths, divorces, cancer, and other hard times. Positive peer pressure to make the chapter look good. No, these positives aren't unique to Greek life, and yes, there are shenanigans too, sometimes worse. Sorry to hear about your negative experience. I hope it was only a vocal minority who were acting so terribly. To the suggestion in the title of this post, there's more to a product than the technology, and I say that as a technical person. Education is important, but most of it takes place outside the classroom. None of us does it alone.