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breathesgelatin 04-17-2003 12:05 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by PiKA_Phil
Hmm...no guys giving their opinions?...:rolleyes:
Haha, we need more guys on GC!!!!

In case anyone cares, my boyfriend went to his last 2 rush parties at SigEp and Pika. The sig tells you which he chose (no contest, really).

HEYY... Maybe I should get my boyfriend to register on GC....
*wheels turning*

KEPike 04-17-2003 12:28 AM

Yeah, we need more Pikes on here.

If I hadn't gone Pike, I wouldn't have joined a fraternity.

Of those not on my campus, I'd say either Beta or SigEp.

JerzeeBoy26 04-17-2003 12:38 AM

If I wasn't a Beta I would have been a Kappa Sig, a Phi Psi or a Sigma Nu (those are the other houses I had a bid at). It really wasn't close though

Livvy8 04-17-2003 12:54 AM

If I hadn't went ASA - I would be DphiE on my campus. Not on my campus - probably Phi Mu and if I was a dude - Acacia (on my campus).

Pink Panther40 04-17-2003 12:57 AM

If my illustrious sorority, ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA , did not exist I would be one unhappy non greek. Because it's AKA all the way or nothing. If there was no chapter here I would wait and become a member of a graduate chapter.

kiqualey12 04-17-2003 01:37 AM

I love AOII so much and has been a huge part of my life since I joined, but if I didn't go AOII I would've probably not joined any other house on campus because I really didn't feel comfortable there. Off campus probably Pi Phi because I met a lot of awesome ones at convention.

enlightenment06 04-17-2003 02:21 AM

I think the whole "rush" thing is interesting, cuz it's so different from the way NPHC groups operate. We don't give out bids or anything like that, either you want to be down with a particular org or you don't. Out of curiosity, if you went through a rush process how do you have a love for your org? Does it develop overtime like an arranged marriage? I don't mean to be rude, I really want to know. With NPHC groups, you research all the groups first, then decide who you want to be down with, and either you're down or you're not. So, can anyone enlighten me? Thanks.

AOII*Azra-elle 04-17-2003 02:37 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by enlightenment06
I think the whole "rush" thing is interesting, cuz it's so different from the way NPHC groups operate. We don't give out bids or anything like that, either you want to be down with a particular org or you don't. Out of curiosity, if you went through a rush process how do you have a love for your org? Does it develop overtime like an arranged marriage? I don't mean to be rude, I really want to know. With NPHC groups, you research all the groups first, then decide who you want to be down with, and either you're down or you're not. So, can anyone enlighten me? Thanks.

Well, I fell in love with the ladies of AOII at once. I just felt like one of them and they were so easy to talk to. During our 'rush', we go through 6 days. We go to each house and meet the girls for an hour or so and talk to various ladies and just get to know them and about their organization. Like I said, I fell in love at once and knew exactly where I wanted to be, but it was our preference tea *ritualistic* ceremony that caught me. Granted I didn't choose another house, but I do get along with girls from 2 of the 4 others on our campus, but I didn't feel as if I belonged as I did with AOII.

Petes58 04-17-2003 03:37 AM

I am new, and I find this thread really interesting.
If I hadn't gone pi phi, I would most likely go ADPi because I prefed there. For the other question about loving your organization....the best way i would even attempt to explain it is this:
you obviously like your chapter when you join it, but i dont think you can truly love it until you have seen all it has to offer, and really made a commitment to it.

Sahara 04-17-2003 12:19 PM

Hi Frat!
 
Enlightenment06,
to answer your first question, if I didn't pledge a NPHC sorority, I'm not really sure what other sororities exist. However, I used to work with a girl who was a Delta Gamma. We really got along well. Since that's the only sorority I know about, I would chose them.

ZZ-kai- 04-17-2003 12:31 PM

Re: if your chapter wasn't there...
 
If Beta were not at my school, I'd start a Phi Delt of Sigma Chi Chapter. So much history, gotta love it.

Miami Triad

Quote:

Originally posted by Katey Alpha Gam
Hey all-
OK I have a question for everyone. If (and this is a horrible scenario, I know) your GLO didn't exist or if you just didn't have them where you went, what other sorority or fraternity would you have gone to? Now we all know we all adore our GLO and wouldn't want to be anything else, but what if???

------------------
Katey, ZA chapter of AGD
"Could I have been anyone other than me?"-Dave Matthews


sugar and spice 04-17-2003 02:30 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by enlightenment06
I think the whole "rush" thing is interesting, cuz it's so different from the way NPHC groups operate. We don't give out bids or anything like that, either you want to be down with a particular org or you don't. Out of curiosity, if you went through a rush process how do you have a love for your org? Does it develop overtime like an arranged marriage? I don't mean to be rude, I really want to know. With NPHC groups, you research all the groups first, then decide who you want to be down with, and either you're down or you're not. So, can anyone enlighten me? Thanks.
An excellent question.

As is obvious from this thread, most of us who join NPC or NIC organizations do it because we meet the people in the groups, we like the people in the groups, and we can see ourselves being happy with the people in our sorority or fraternity. After we choose this group, we learn the history, and we learn to appreciate the organization from the experiences we have from it.

From this thread, it appears that most people who join NPHC groups know the kind of organization they want to belong to, and learn to love the people in it because of the experiences the organization has given them with their sisters or brothers . . . most NPC/NIC groups are the opposite -- the majority of us know the kind of people we want to spend time with, and we learn to love the organization because of the people it has brought us to, you know?

Of course, I can't speak for everyone, and there are members of NPC groups out there who might have only considered one group -- I know a girl whose mom was a Kappa Kappa Gamma, and this girl was going to join Kappa or nothing at all. But I think that for the most part, it works the way I described above.

honeychile 04-17-2003 05:24 PM

I preffed Kappa, and had such a huge Kappa influence in my life that there's still a key on my wall at my parents' home! So, I guess I would have gone Kappa.

Phi Mu wasn't at my school, but I've enjoyed the company of every Phi Mu lady I've met. Same with AZD, now that I think of it - but the pink would have probably swayed me! ;)

honeychile

please note: I am playing this as if ADPi didn't exist! I was bonded to ADPi from the very first time we met!

FAB*SpiceySpice 04-17-2003 05:38 PM

It makes me so happy to see so many of yall saying such nice things about Phi Mu! :D

As for me, if Phi Mu had not been an option I would definately have wanted to either be a Theta, DG, or Alpha Chi on our campus. Theta's here are a top house and they win just about everything, I have a lot of friends in DG, and our Alpha Chi's are just the nicest girls and everytime I see them perform at RAMS or Fling or anything they always look AMAZING! They have some serious talent!

Before I got to college I wanted to be an ADPi b/c all my friends who graduated the year before me were ADPi's...so had I gone elsewhere I think I would have wanted to be an ADPi. :D

Opie25 04-17-2003 06:06 PM

If I weren't a member of Phi Delta Theta I would have been:

on undergrad campus: Lambda Theta Phi, INC.
on Grad campus: Sigma Alpha Epsilon, or Kappa Alpha Order

not on either campus: HMM...Beta Theta Pi maybe

AlphaGamDiva 04-17-2003 06:14 PM

without alpha gam, i would so totally be lost......

but, if there was no such thing as alpha gamma delta, i would have gone either sigma kappa or aopi.....my other pref choices. my sister is an aopi, so there's a connection there and everyone i talked with was really sweet....and i bonded really well with one particular sig kap when i went through who is now my "adopted sigma kappa big sis"......so. :)
DZ isn't on my campus....but a friend of mine from high school went DZ, and i have met some of her sisters and they are awesome (UK DZs are fabulous!!) :D

SDTSarah 05-28-2003 02:02 AM

I'm a little late, but I love this subject! I would have loved to be a DPhiE...they were second! I also loved Kappa.

Not on my campus: my aunt was an AChiO, one of grandmothers was a DG, my other grandmother was a Theta, and both of my cousins were Phi Mu! I also have a good friend who is a Chi O and one who is a Zeta. And I love Theta Phi Alpha because of the penguins! :D

Sororities rock. :cool:

The_Nash 05-28-2003 03:56 AM

kicked off
 
Had they not been kicked off the year before I got to school probably Sigma Nu or Sig Ep

KappaKittyCat 05-28-2003 11:13 AM

If KKG weren't here at Lawrence and I'd somehow been talked into panhellenic rush anyway, I'd probably be a KAQ. If not, I'd be a SAI. As it stands, I'm considering rushing SAI in the winter anyway.

If I'd have gone to UW-Madison, which was my other major school option, and somehow been talked into rushing there, I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't be a Kappa. I like to think that I'd be a DDD. All the TriDeltas I've met from Madison are fabulous ladies, and it seems like the chapter I'd fit in best with.

astroAPhi 05-28-2003 11:38 AM

Well, if Alpha Phi wasn't at Florida Tech, my one and only choice would have been Gamma Phi Beta. Well, then again, if Alpha Phi wasn't at Florida Tech, Sigma Kappa might have still be there (apparently campus wasn't strong enough for 3 sororities during the mid- to late-nineties).

I don't know much about Sigma Kappa, but I really admire the local philanthropy for Gamma Phi Beta... they work with the Hacienda Girls Ranch every summer. I almost went Gamma Phi because of that.

If I had gone to UIUC, my second choice, I'm not sure I would have gone Greek. It's such a huge system, with something like 30 sororities.

With all that's said and done though, I truly believe in Alpha Phi and think that God meant for me to join them. I truly believe in their aims and ideals, and have all my life.

AUDeltaGam 05-28-2003 02:50 PM

If I wasn't a DG, I think I would be either an Alpha Chi Omega or a Zeta Tau Alpha! Both groups are filled with such classy girls! I have never met an AXO or a ZTA that wasn't wonderful!

daoine 05-28-2003 03:25 PM

If it weren't for Phi Mu...

On campus, I'd have to say Pi Phi or Theta -- most of the girls preffing us also preffed at one of those two.

Off campus, I think I'd want to go Tri Sigma, or maybe AOPi, or maybe Gamma Phi Beta, and ADPi, 'cause ya gotta have the Wesleyan love...

James 05-28-2003 03:53 PM

If my chapter wasn't there I would have created another one. :D

polarpi 05-31-2003 01:43 AM

Here's the story...I went into formal recruitment wanting to go KD (all my friends were KD, so why would I go anywhere else???) As recruitment went along, I found myself bonding with the ADPi's (even though I still secretly hoped for KD). When KD dropped me after Theme night (a night I had to miss because I was taking an exam down at Ball State early the next morning when recruitment for that night ended at 11pm), I decided I wanted nothing but ADPi, and I'm so glad that I joined there. If I wasn't an ADPi, and wasn't a KD, I'd probably not be in a sorority now, since I didn't really connect with any of the other sororities there.

Also, it's a weird trend at my university....PNM's preffing ADPi are almost always preffing Tri-Delts or KD. All three chapters seem to be pretty similar to one another!!!(at least on my campus)

PiPhiGirl2005 05-31-2003 02:01 AM

I preffed both Pi Phi and Alpha Xi, and had I not gone Pi Phi, I most likely would have gone Alpha Xi. However, many of my friends who were Alpha Xi's left the chapter later that semester because of internal conflicts, and I most likely would have left, too. I'm soooo glad I chose Pi Phi, though!

However, I grew up around Hope College, and when I was in high school and taking dual-enrollment classes there, I wanted nothing more than to be a Delta Phi ("delphi") at Hope.... They are a local sorority and they all seem so nice and classy!

vandy_violet 05-31-2003 08:04 PM

During rush, my favorite houses were Chi-O, KD, Kappa, AOPi, and yes, ADPi. Actually before Rush I swore that I was going to be Chi-O or nothing at all...they're one of the top houses on campus, but not for just looks or money, but all-around, like grades, etc. That didn't exactly work out...but one of my coolest friends is Chi-O!

OleMissGlitter 06-02-2003 10:33 AM

I would have probably gone Kappa or Phi Mu. My aunts were Kappa's and my best friend was a Phi Mu at the time. Or perhaps Theta or Pi Phi since they get tons of New Orleans girls here at Ole Miss. DG too would be a top choice.

Not at Ole Miss--I would have been interested in Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Phi, Theta Phi Alpha, and Chi Omega.

ZTAMiami 06-02-2003 10:40 AM

Re: Probably none
 
Quote:

Originally posted by alpha1904
They don't judge me just because of the huge gourd I have on my neck. They accept everyone here and that's awesome.
As per Merriam Webster:
Main Entry: gourd
Pronunciation: 'gOrd, 'gord, 'gurd
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English gourde, from Middle French, from Latin cucurbita
Date: 14th century
1 : any of a family (Cucurbitaceae, the gourd family) of chiefly herbaceous tendril-bearing vines including the cucumber, melon, squash, and pumpkin
2 : the fruit of a gourd : PEPO; especially : any of various hard-rinded inedible fruits of plants of two genera (Lagenaria and Cucurbita) often used for ornament or for vessels and utensils
- out of one's gourd also off one's gourd : CRAZY

So you have a vegetable growing out of your neck?
Interesting:rolleyes:

alphaiota 06-02-2003 12:13 PM

i do believe she is talking about a growth that can occur in such areas as your neck. i might be wrong, but one of the causes of this is idodine decifiency. usually this is found in third world countries and not in the usa.

however, i think she may have just been joking. but if not, i do apologize.

shelley j
sigma k

DGMarie 06-02-2003 12:17 PM

haha
 
goiter is the correct word. And you really should have your thyroid checked!;)

ZTAMiami 06-02-2003 01:16 PM

I knew that, I'm just pointing out discrepancies and giving a definition. Even if it were true, its really not amusing.

CatStarESP4 06-02-2003 02:33 PM

If my sorority didn't exist, I would have gone to either another local or had given those NPC at my alma mater another chance.
:D http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/jump.gif http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/monalisa.gif http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmili...natur/sun1.gif

SigmaChiGuy 06-02-2003 04:46 PM

If I could have, I would have started a Sigma Chi Omega chapter. Those guys rule. NOT. What a bunch of assbags.

APhiRattlerGal 06-02-2003 07:11 PM

Hmm...if Alpha Phi wasnt at my school I probably would have gone Delta Zeta.

SniffDNZ098 06-02-2003 10:45 PM

For me I am a Lambda Chi at UC Riverside and I didnt like fraternities. I really enjoyed the rush tools they had. Be friends first and then the fraternity. That got me. Now most of my buddies are in the fraternity too :)

If my chapter didnt exist, prolly I would not be in Greek World

efcheerBB 12-16-2003 07:28 PM

If Sigma Delta Tau had not been at MSU when I went through recruitment, I think I would be an Alpha Omicron Pi. They are an awesome group of girls and I have several friends in the chapter up here.

Godfather 12-16-2003 08:44 PM

If I hadn't gone Sigma Chi I would have probably gone SAE, SigEp or Kap Sig. But...nawww

ADPiZXalum 12-16-2003 09:00 PM

On my campus: Chi Omega or Theta
Not on my campus: Delta Gamma

Tippiechick 12-16-2003 09:06 PM

I truly believe that I was MEANT to be a ZTA. I went to Middle Tennessee State University as a freshman. I did not go through rush. But, 3 ZTAs showed me friendship unlike any other. One of them and her big sister wrote the rec for ZTA at Ole Miss, where I transferred to for my soph. year. At Ole Miss, ZTA seemed like the most down-to-earth chapter. And, I decided after the first round that it was ZTA or nothing.


BUT, if ZTA did not exist or had not been an option, I would have loved to have been:

Ole Miss: AOPi (They were so sweet and classy...)
Middle Tennessee State University: XO (XO is strong nationally as is ZTA.)

Rio_Kohitsuji 12-16-2003 09:12 PM

Hmm...on campus: GDI status once again :p

Off campus: ZTA, DZ, Alpha Phi, or KKG (in no particular order :D )


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