The most popular or what some may call "bitchy-est" sorority is ZTA, while the most "popular" frats are probably SAE, PKE, and TKE. I'm not in a sorority, but i'm on the track and cross country teams and involved with Christian Campus Fellowship. Being on an athletic team has a lot of perks including priority registration for classes, free tutors, a really nice dining hall, and tons of free gear, but is obviously really time consuming. I got involved with CCF almost immediately after coming to campus. They had set up a humongous waterslide in the burger bowl (giant field on west campus), and they were letting everyone slide down and giving out free food and gatorade. They made an effort to make it feel like you were instantly accepted and i instantly felt like i had 5 new best friends in the freshman interns. They invited me to come over to the house that night, and i had so much fun playing ping pong and chatting, and the rest is history. For a girl the dating scene is pretty good lol, and i'd say it is for guys too, they just don't try very hard. My closest friends, I met in my dorm because everybody leaves their doors open and pretty much everyone is really really good friends. It also is a lot of fun living in a co-ed dorm b/c i got to hang out with guys and girls daily. If I'm awake at 2 am on a Tuesday night, it's probably because i'm either studying, watching a movie, playing guitar hero, baking, watching random youtube videos with friends, eating wingnuts..who knows... A big tradition every year is homecoming week. The sororities and frats participate in all kinds of competitions like squirt ( a giant water gun fight), the mini 500 (tricycle race around peters parking deck), and the freshman cake race - you don't have to be greek to run in it and if you win you get a cake and you get to go on the football field at halftime and get a kiss from mr or ms. georgia tech ( I won it my freshman year :) ). Another big tradition is One Night Stand, which is the weekend before finals start at the end of fall term. It's held at the CRC and is basically a night full of games and free food. Sting Break is also really cool, which is a huge carnival in the spring and a there's a free concert one night. There are frat parties pretty much every weekend, but there are tons of other things to do if you don't drink. Atlantic Station is about a mile away, which has shopping and a movie theatre. All my friends went salsa dancing one weekend at a club about 20 minutes away, which was really fun. In the winter they set up a huge ice skating rink in centennial olympic park, which is less than 2 miles away, so you can always find something to do, or just chill and watch movies with friends.