A Blog Post for Another Website

So this is my first post on nwso. First and foremost I wanna thank the man himself for giving me a shot. With that said let me introduce myself. For all intents and purposes you all can call me JDEL. I'm a twenty one year old college student thats majoring in Marketing at Troy University.

Now that that's out the way here's the topic of my first post. College dating and how it affects your social status. Now most of the people that are reading this have probably gone through college and know what I'm talkin bout. There's also some that haven't or are experiencing it now.

While we all know who you date really shouldn't affect your social standing it unfortunately does. Rather it's fair or not is for a different discussion at a different time. Here's three examples to prove my point.

Example one: if a female dates a Greek and she isn't a greek. It boosts her popularity on campus as to someone that almost everybody should know. Now if they ever break up depending on how bad the break up was her social status could be affected drastically. She go from a nobody to a somebody to a hoe. All in the matter of months just because of the individual she chose to date.

Example Two: If two Greeks dated. Depending on how the relationship goes it could be beneficial or harmful for both the respective organizations and the individuals. If the relationship went bad it could become a major issue on campus and ruin any chance of Greek unity on that campus along with the reputation and perception of one or both Greek organizations. However, if things went good it would show and prove that Greeks from different organizations could get along which is a good look for all parties involved.

One last example would be if a non Greek male dated a Greek female of relatively high social standing on campus. It would more than likely promote him to a high social standing; and depending on the individual he could use that social standing to join an organization that he possibly wouldn't have been able to join without being in a relationship with that Greek. Probably shortly after he joined the organization he would break up with her because she no longer has a purpose and her popularity and social standing would take a hit.

So in the end, should who you date really affect your social standing? If so why ? Have you or anybody you know been in one of these situations? It doesn't have to be with a greek. It could be with anyone of high social status and standing? For those that are wondering if I'm Greek does it matter?

Thank You. Be Easy and Enjoy Life

JDEL