Matt’s Blog

Blog crossover wtih the Pro-Blog about the physical arrangement of my new server system:

http://pro-blog.mattroe.net/?p=117

That’s one heck of a educational discount.

It’s hard for me to imagine now why I didn’t want to rush as a freshman. I even remember stopping by the house my first week at Tech and somehow thinking that I would never, ever “Go Greek”. Now I don’t know what I would have done without it. Even though I officially graduated from Theta Xi two years ago when I completed my undergraduate work, I still feel a part of the house. Probably because I was too cheap to move out . Almost every significant relationship I’ve developed at Tech has come from the fraternity, and there are so many good memories that I’m sure I’ve forgotten more than I can remember. Here I will present a semi-exhaustive list of everything associated with Theta Xi that brings a smile to my face that I can think of:

• Formals
• Semi-formals
• Greek Week
• Greek Sing
• Homecoming
• Mock Rock
• “The Hovercraft”
• Diet Coke Sandwiches
• Kitchen Chores
• Unicorn Power
• Intramurals (Even though I have yet to go to a game)
• Catapult (For more reasons than are immediately apparent)
• Football Block Seating
• Halo in Fox and Jones’ room
• DOW With Fox and Jones
• Croakies
• 24 (I learned of Jack Bauer here)
• Scrubs
• Tug
• Front Porch Swing
• Broomball
• The Malibu Mixer
• Steak and Shake (Preferably very late at night and with girls… erm that doesn’t sound right)
• Taco Mac
• Good Beer
• Not-so-Good Beer (“Diet Coors”)
• Rainbows
• Matt Wertz, Jon McLaughlin, Dave Barnes, Anberlin, Cartel, Augustana, Country Music, Diana Krall…
• Front Lawn (Particularly the use of a skid-steer)
• TX Golf
• Monster Golf
• Date Nights
• “Announcements”
• Chapter Meeting Secrets (Some funny, some lame, but all secret)
• The “Make-Out Spot”
• Initiations (Locations and Experiences)
• Moustache Week
• The GTG’s
• Getting the Pig for Rush
• Rush Bingo
• Breaking Femurs
• Rage in the Cage
• Cooking Mealplan
• Re-Tiling The Kitchen
• Road Trips

Honestly, I could keep going for a while, but I have to stop somewhere.

God was so good, giving me a whole house full of brothers to entertain me, help me, grow me, and hold me accountable. When I was a little kid I used to come across my dad’s old fraternity memorabilia in boxes and drawers in the house. I never understood what it was all about.

I understand now.

So it’s been a while. Not that there hasn’t been a lot going on. I finally graduated and walked across the stage for the last time. More on that another time. My parents were in town for that and we got to hang out a little bit which was nice. Although this was likely the last time that they will be visiting me in Atlanta.

Now I’m just hanging out and getting things setup for the move to Seattle. Eventually I need to get a list of things to accomplish this summer together, preferably before it’s over.

I have a bunch of blog posts ready to go so, but unfortunately none of them are available as I’ve been in the midst of a domain re-organization project for the past few days. Once that’s finished updates should be both more interesting and more frequent.