Walking into this fraternity, I did not come expecting that within two hours I would learn a great deal about how beneficial a fraternity could be. It started off as general facts of what Beta Alpha Psi is founded on and what it stands for being as an honor society and representing brotherhood, community service, and professionalism. They all collectively join as a brotherhood to boost each other up to the potential they hold within themselves and seek to bring out that potential in new members. They do so by sharpening their skills and doing workshops to strengthen skills needed in starting off in a job by doing mock interviews, editing resumes, and serving in their communities to build their character and remembering to stay humble.
The president spoke about how advertising around Baruch for Beta Alpha Psi lead to him meeting a fellow Baruch student who wanted to join and lacked the skills to become successful until he helped him along with the other members who now shaped him into becoming the executive vice president of Beta Alpha Psi currently. Together, all the members resembled a family because they all spend time together in becoming better versions of themselves and over years they have seen each other grow to gain success in their field because of older and younger members guiding them along the way.
At the end, the professionalism of the current members and the positions they held at top companies inspired me to join a fraternity/sorority because it made me envision myself in one of their places one day in securing a job in my desired career field while making a family in a fraternity that could potentially become like a second family to me.
