You just reminded me that I was a Brownie Scout. :( I sincerely hated it because it was a source of gendered socialization more than it was service oriented. Yeah I was hating gendered socialization back then eventhough I didn't know that's what it was. LOL

same here, except it was PSU I transferred to

As a child I was paddled with my mother's Theta Psi Delta (local) sorority paddle. Does that count?

You get 5 Amen's for that!!!!

Haha...how ironic, eh??

I first learned about sororities the summer before my freshman year in college. I was 17.

My sophomore year of college when I found out that sororities were not for blond girls looking for husbands (my parents were not a good influence for Greek life and discouraged me throughout my new member period)

My senior year of high school when I received a brochure for a Greek Preview weekend. My mom said my eyes lit up and she knew I was completely gung-ho, which was a pretty accurate reading of how I felt. :)

The 's to denote plural is not quite as annoying as "mines."

/end hijack's

Freshman year of college after my roommate dropped out of rush and two of the girls across the hall accepted their bids. It just seemed so fun. I had all of my freshman year to watch Greek life from the outside and rushed my sophomore year.

early high school...i think i was 15? my 2 bff's moms are DST, my family consists of numerous AKA's and Zetas, so i was surrounded completely.

I have wanted to be a Delta since the second grade! It happened thankfully, so be persistant and know your information!

I never considered joining a fraternity until getting into college. I decided to join a fraternity at the age of 18 spring semester of my freshman year.

Before going to college I believe a lot of the stereotypes about Greek Life. These were slightly reinforced because of family members in Greek Life. When I was a sophomore, two of my close friends joined sororities and helped me to erase those stereotypes. These friends were the ones who encouraged me to join the charter class of Theta at my campus!

i got interested in greek life a few weeks before rush my freshman year. One of my friends from high school convinced me to rush with her during our orientation week. It was one of the best decisions of my life!

I was 16 when I decided to go Greek. That was my main reason for going to college because I didnt want to go. Im glad I did, not just to pledge, but for the whole college experience.

My story is a little bit different from everyone's being that I'm a first generation college student. Noone in my family has ever been a member of any type of GLO so until I got to college, I didn't know anything about greeks. I did a lot of community service on my own. That's where I met members of various GLOs and became friends with some of them. After being exposed through them, I became interested.

I can't even imagine thinking about sororities while I was in high school - I was too busy with everything I had going on. It would have been an unnecessary added stress!

My senior year in high school when I saw all of the members of the previous year's graduating class returning to visit the school wearing their pledge pins.

Ditto. Except that technically, I am not 1st generation college. My grandfather attended college (for Mechanical Engineering). My stepdad has his M.S. My grandmother attended college in her 50s. And, my great-grandmother attended a teaching college.

I AM the first person to think about going Greek. My family thought I was from outer space when I told them I was rushing. I would have rushed as a 1st semester freshman, but my boyfriend at the time convinced me that it was NOT something I wanted to do. (Not being Greek, I had NO idea what he said was a lie...) So, we broke up. And, I transferred to Ole Miss the next year. I was a sophomore at MTSU. But, was still considered a freshman at Ole Miss.

No one I know thinks about rushing in high school...

i was a sophomore in high school [now a freshman in college]. 90% of all of my teachers were greek, and not to mention both of my mentors.

Maybe your thoughts on rushing prevented you from learning correct grammar.

i think it was junior year of high school when i started touring colleges and saw girls in letters and greek rows at different schools.

My gosh, the lack of grammatical skills in this thread is making me want to poke my eyes out. CAPITALIZE PEEPS.

I've wanted to be a Sigma Chi since as long as I can remember. My dad was the president of Beta Xi chapter when he was an active, and then went on to be president of the housing corp. as an alumnus, so I've been surrounded by Sigma Chi life from a very young age.

Beginning of my sophomore year of college.

During my freshman year, I just saw alien letters on annoying people.

I was actually born in seersucker shorts and a Brooks Brothers polo. The doctor paddled me to make me cry, then handed me a bottle of Jack to calm me back down.

In all seriousness ever since elementary school when I started going to football games with my dad, tailgating with some of his brothers and stopping by the house for BBQ and to see how it was doing once or twice a year.

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I was in my freshman year of college. So I must have been 17 or 18.

LOL.

You know, everytime I see the title of this thread -- "What age did you begin thinking about The Greek Life?" -- all I can think of is the father in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."

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if you take GC so seriously that you need to point out other people`s grammatical errors, then maybe you need a life. just a thought.

Or, maybe you need to act like an educated person by punctuating and capitalizing correctly. You make yourself look like a retard with your preteen-type writing skills. Just a fucking thought...

When I was in jr. high, so around 13. I remember my friends' sisters talking about how much they loved being greek and I could not wait until I was in college.

Nooooo... I just like reading celeb gossip... most celebs live in cali so that's pretty much what my name is about.

I think I must have been in 8th grade. I remember looking at my parents college yearbooks (they both went to the same school I eventually went to) and looking at the sorority pictures. I just remembered that it looked like so much fun and I wanted that when I was in college. Didnt think about it again until I was a freshman commuter and having a miserable time that my dad suggested I rush to meet people. I guess it was only a natural step since I was a Girl Scout for 12 years!

oooh someone`s angry, LOL. insults and expletives flying everywhere.. you`re right, you "look" so intelligent and mature right now.

I vaguely remember wanting to wear letters, but not realizing they were Greek related when I was young, 10, 11? Didn't think about it again until I went to 2 COBs my second semester freshman year with a friend. It wasn't until the second that I actually started to consider it.

Tippiechick needs to calm down. Xanax, anyone? I generally have perfect grammar and punctuation, but when I'm doing a quick reply to an unimportant, just-for-fun thread on a website called greekchat.com, I don't worry about capitalizing. Chill out, please.

Random quick replies are one thing, but have you even bothered to read the troll's other posts? :rolleyes:

#1 rule of GreekChat. You never, ever tell Tippie to "chill out".

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