Fraternities were as important to my college education as the schooling itself. Life is about connections and the cliche, it's not what you know, but who you know is most certainly true.

I've heard the whole paying for friends spill before, and I've always laughed it off, because the ones spewing that rhetoric have no experience to quantify their words.

I use the connections I made through a fraternity every day in business, and I'd venture to say those connections have paid not only my fraternity dues, but my college tuition off already.