Bid Day. Two words that can determine how you spend your college years. Joining the right fraternity or sorority can define your college career. Today is fall bid day, a day upperclassmen find, quite literally their brothers. And then their sisters, if the fraternity has a sister sorority. For guys, bid day means parties. Fall bid days at Baylor bring raucous gatherings, dance parties, and sometimes even passed out bodies in front of the “House of Sin.” But really, bid day brings brotherhood. In fact, for the largest fraternity pledge class of 19, brotherhood means expanding upon precedent and welcoming a new generation.

Receiving a bid is truly a cause for celebration, for finding a home and a family. Fraternities are often just brushed aside as “frats” and not taken seriously, but to those, which do not have the connotation of “frat,” a fraternity is a way of life, of meeting men in from various walks of life and bonding together to create something bigger than themselves. Fraternities can be vain, and shallow, but not all. Many of Baylor’s finest are strongly rooted and invite true gentlemen that any father would be proud to welcome into the family.