I lurked a long while before first posting in 2018 or so. I posted to one of the evergreen threads in my sorority's section, then got yelled at immediately and unnecessarily by a mod for bumping an old topic. Really nice, warm welcome. :) Love the rush threads and the weird rush stories, primarily. The fake ones were some of my faves.

Hey yall! I just saw the anniversary email. After feeling old for a moment (because seriously....has it really been 25 years), I decided to join the reunion.

Hope everyone is doing well {{{hugs}}} Now where is the bar?

We have a few here in New Orleans ;)

I'm grateful to Carnation (a friend IRL since 1976) for introducing me to GreekChat. I especially enjoy stories of fraternity history and the many rush stories. I appreciate IrishPipes for maintaining the list of NPC chapters and recruitment dates and LaneSig for the charters/expansions/closures list.

^^^ :)

I LOVE this thread!

Congrats John on providing this avenue to educate and celebrate our Greek ties! NPC, NPHC, Honoraries, Locals, you made us all feel welcome. Thank you.

I didn’t realize the extensive history of sororities until I found this website. Obviously I knew about mine, but not the NPC or NPHC. Reading Bound by a Mighty Vow was eye opening…as a woman, I definitely have a ton of respect for those that paved the way for us in higher education.

Oh hi :D

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Happy 25 to the site. I don't log on as much anymore but pop in periodically. Met a bunch of people throughout the years and keep up with several outside of the site.

How did you first learn of GC?

Right after I crossed, I was on a mission to find any website that had resources that I could use for chapter leadership (since my organization was very green at that point). Stumbled upon this site and loved the conversation and inputs.

What is your favorite / most memorable GC story or all-time favorite GC thread?

All I can think about is the "yo yo it's ya boy k_s" shit that I posted early in my time here :D

Also, the gc chats and "meat in the sink" lmao

Who are / were your favorite GCers?

Everybody who put up with me for all the years I was on here lol

How has GC impacted your life?

Back in the day, there was a lot of information sharing that was super helpful, particularly for members of newer organizations. When I was more involved with my organization officially, I would pass along some of this information and it led to several changes within the group that have helped us grow and change for the better. Will always be grateful for that.

Who’d you have coffee and pizza with? I know about the lunch outing because I read their posts about what you looked like, 2 pages long Lol!

I feel like I missed a long party on here. I don’t recognize 99.9% of the folks everybody is mentioning in their posts.

I completely agree! :)

I just realized I was 16 when GC started.

For me the prunetacos news was probably the absolutely most jaw dropping moment with GC.

I recall checking on things with GC after having not been on the site for a few days. Nothing was working at all. Not a single page or image would load.

So, I got ready to work on fixing whatever server problem was causing this. But, I couldn't even login via SSH to work on things. That got me thinking maybe it was some really bad hardware failure, maybe all the hard drives were trashed & irrecoverable or something like that.

I ended up having the datacenter pull the plug on the server to see if it would restart & get going again, which it did. Fortunately there was no major hardware issue to deal with that time. Looked like it was just a big traffic burst which completely jammed the server up for a bit.

After that had happened I remember thinking that maybe some major site linked to GC or maybe GC was just growing more site traffic wise.

Some GCer, probably a moderator although I don't recall who, mentioned that I need to search the news for GreekChat.

So I went to Google News, searched for GC and...

:eek::eek::eek:

That was quite a shocking jaw dropping moment to see/learn that.

I recall there being close to 4000 news article results returned in that Google News search. Newspapers all over the US, probably mostly their digital editions, had short articles mentioning GC and referencing the larger story reported by The Washington Post. There must have been so much traffic from all those articles that it completely seized up the server for a while.

carnation, ever since you told me about this GC story of yours quite a few years ago it has always been one of my favorites. Probably my top favorite.

Makes me :)

And how perfect it was that you ended up being the first to reply to this thread and share that story!

I haven’t really used this site in ages but it’s good to see so many folks are still around. Cheers to 25 years!

Awww, thank you so much! You really have no idea how many people that GC has done great things for in real life. We appreciate all the effort you've put into it!

Saaaaaaaaame.

Can't believe GC was only 2 years old when I first started posting in college. I'm more of a lurker now.

Every once in a while, the lovely made up words of GC Trolls pop into my head…favorites being “rejectment” and “harassive.”

I keep revisiting this thread from time to time. Lots of really cool things posted here in this discussion.

Another one that makes me :)

Tripped me out when I learned people know each other on here. What really tripped me out was that not only were there greekchat meetups, but there have been greekchat hookups too Lol. I didn’t believe it at first until long time members on here told me it’s true.

I’m at the car dealership service area…and a customer just apologized to the staff for being “harassive.”

Some weird person used that non word here years ago and it always makes me laugh.

That, and rejectment

DP