It just rubs me the wrong way a little to discount frats and clubs as places to form meaningful relationships when it’s been the best place for me to do so.

I didn’t say they couldn’t be meaningful, just that they weren’t very meaningful to me, and that they seemed to lack deep emotional connections.

As you said most of you hadn’t really connected since the last trip and didn’t have much to share as far as life updates.

I don’t really see that as having a deep emotional connection. I’m closer to my best friend than I am with my family. I know how they are doing, what they are struggling with, we talk about our relationships, our careers, and our families. I can trust them implicitly with my health, wealth, and happiness and they can count on me to do the same for them.