"second is pledging the greek-letter organization/start-up - during which your suitability for hanging-out is determined" Like I said in another comment making

"second is pledging the greek-letter organization/start-up - during which your suitability for hanging-out is determined" Like I said in another comment making a similar point, I completely agree. It feels like the industry has been hijacked by people who were actively ejected from all cliques in high school, and now they create their own cliques around them and eject people arbitrarily because "they are not like us".