good friends in other GLOs??
 

Ok so I have a cute story that I'm sure all of you have. Do any of you have friends in other GLOs? and I mean good friends. Ha well heres my story about how I got mine.

So me and this girl dated the same guy, go figure, i was first then she was next. We both thought we hated eachother. She was in a different sorority so that kinda added to the wierdness.One night at a party we somehow ended up talking and sorting things out. We realized that neither of us had a problem with the other. So after that night when we saw eachother we would say hi and be nice. Slowly we got closer. We would go eat lunch at the pub together, we would always hang out at parties, we would call eachother just to say hi. It also lead to us having the idea to have an all sorority mixer to prove to everyone that our 2 groups could get along

So what I'm trying to say is that one of my good friends to this day is in another GLO. And i love her to death as if she were my own sister.Some things have happened to me this summer which forced me to move back home, not gonna go into the details right now but it had to do with my own sisters, but she was right there with full support.

I would love to hear about other stories, cuz i know that being in different orgs. can cause tension and what not but i would like to know how that helps eachother. cuz for us we had eachother to lean on when we need an outlet.


By the way with my move back home I'm on this friendship kick...haha oh and she is apart of the wonderful org of Gamma Phi Beta and i am/was apart of a local organization.

friends in other GLO's
 

Funny you should mention this...
My maid of honor at my wedding was a DG at my school. We were teammates together in college and I keep in touch with quite a few girls from that house. Her house and my own were the 2 I was torn between...I ended up with the best of both worlds.
On a side note, my sister-in-law was a DG at Mizzou and she said she was torn btwn DG and Tri Delta also, but went the opposite of what I did--too weird!:p

We only have two sororities at my school and so there has always been a kind of rivalry between the two and coming in as a new member, i hated to see girls in my rush class go away and i was pretty much under the impression that i couldnt hang out with them. NOTE: it wasn't anything either sorority said, it was just something I assumed, because it just seemed that way. Well, i hung out with some of the sig ep guys and made friends with one that was engaged to a girl in the other sorority. I kind of approached her warily because i was just naturally kind of "oh, you hate me because i'm a dg" Well, we were always friendly towards each other, but i was afriad she was deep down hating me. One night she seemed a little "off" and I asked her if she wanted to talk about it and we ended up sitting and talking for like 3 hours and she spilled out everything. I realized that she felt the same way towards me (afraid i was deep down hating her) and we ended up becoming really close. I'm closer to her than i am to some of my sisters. She has asked me to be part of her wedding and I was with her when she signed her resignation papers from her GLO.
I wish we had more groups on campus so we could promote cross-letter boundry breaking and greek group unity.
Sincerly
Mandie

We have 7 sororitys on my campus but alot of girls are very close. My twin in my sorority (we dont have bigs cause we are founders) Lives with a DG, a PhiMu, and a girl whose not in one. Also the presidents of DZ and DG live together and are very very close. Im my suite last years it was 8 girls, 5 not in Greek life and my (DZ) a AEPhi, and a PhiMu

In the music department, I'm friends with some of the people in Tau Beta Sigma.

Outside of that, I have several friends in Delta Zeta and one in AOII.

It's been tough to try and keep friendships going with the sisters that I met during rush because schedules are so busy. But, I have become good friends with a couple of AOPi's, and a ZTA alum that I met last summer way before rush. I used to be really close to my Bible study group, who were all ADPi's, but they've since graduated, gotten married and moved away. :(

I have a close friend who is an Alpha Phi. We've been good friends since our freshmen year, and we're also the same major. Today I just found out that she's engaged, and I feel honored enough to be invited to her wedding!

I think this thread is a good idea. I know sometimes, at least on my campus, chapters tend to stick to themselves. We need to encourage growth of bonds between different orgs! :)

It's ironic that I just saw this thread. Tonight I met a KD from another school. We were reminiscing about our sorority days, I make it sound like they're so far away but we both graduated in May. I was telling her that I have 2 friends in KD, 1 of whom I met randomly (she went to high school with a guy who lived on my floor freshman year), and we just started talking at the bars 1 night. Now whenever we see each other out, we freak out and scream! It's so funny, I love her and I was telling this KD tonight that I wish my friend was my sister. The same goes for 2 girls in AOPi. They're so awesome, I met 1 through 1 of my sisters and the other through a mutual friend at a party. I wish I was sisters with them too. I have a very close friend from freshman year in Sig Kap. I talk to her all the time, and I know we'll be friends for a long time. And I know 2 Thetas from classes who I love seeing out at the bars too!

ONe of my closest friends is an ADPi- she went to another school and our chapters are identical to each other, except for the letters!
The even funnier part is our ADPis were like their AGD's!

We love it! She is so sweet and I just love her!

When I was in college, I had a number of friends who were not Zeta's. Today it is even more true. Through Alumnae Panhellenic, I have made many close friends and we view ourselves as sisters who just happen to wear different pins. In fact, last night an ADPi who is advisor to her chapter called me to ask my opinion and advice on a situation involving ADPi and formal recruitment. It didn't even occur to her (or to me!) that I would look at the situation in the light that would best benefit the Zeta chapter on campus. We looked at it as to what was best Panhellenically.

We all love our individual groups but don't lose sight of the fact that we are all Greek!!

Ok....well heres my little story.

I moved up to UNT knowing no one...being 5 hours away from home, and all my friends had gone to Texas A&M. Im very stubborn, and dont like doing the norm, so i went away to UNT. I met this girl outside the dorms when we were waiting to move in, and we hit it off right away. We became really close friends, and she, in turn, introduced me to some other people(all going through rush, since rush happens the week before school). I became really close to her, and we ended up being in the same Rho Gamma group. Our other friends were in different groups, and so our journey began. We both loved Zeta and Pi Phi, but I was cut from Zeta the 2nd day and she was cut from Pi Phi. I remember we were both kind of upset because we both loved these groups, and we didnt have the same groups we were going back to for pref night. So pref night came, and she put Zeta first and I put Pi Phi first. We both got our first choices, and we are as close as ever. The Greek System at UNT has become very united, at least sorority wise, and we do have our rivalaries(like when we were playing flag football and the other team tore my sisters ACL)...but its so fun to have a friend another organization...one I can be really close with. The other good friends I had went Kappa, Chi O, and Alpha Phi. So we are like our own little greek community when we go out.

just thought id share. :D

my college only has 2 sororities, and before i went through rush i assumed that the two groups didnt get along at all (and having guys in fraternities as freinds telling me this didnt help). after going through rush and pledging chi omega, i learned that the two groups didnt dislike each other but didnt spend that much time together. during my rush there were a lot of girls (my school is small so a lot of girls is like 100 or so) and we all got to know each other (formal recruitment). i didnt really talk to the girls that went the other way that much because new memeber semester is really busy. but after we all got initiated we realized that we hang out with a lot of the same guys as the girls in the other sorority, and didnt want it to be awkward anymore. one of my best friends now is an active in the other sorority and after hanging out a couple times we realized we had a lot in common and that having different letters didnt mean that we couldnt be friends! im way excited for this because this past fall when girls asked if the two groups get along i can honestly say that i have a great time hanging out with both organizations and that were friends!! :)

My best friend since I was 4 is a Deepher (Delta Phi Epsilon, for those who dont know) at Emory University. I am a Phi Sig at FAU. Its kinda cool, there is DPhiE at my school and if I had by chance joined them I could have been sisters with my best friend!

I have a bunch of friends in other organizations..

though I have a really good friend who is an ADPi. She was my freshman roommate. We are still really close now and hang out all the time.. though she is in spain this semester.

She really liked pi phi all through rush and on pref night it was a hard decision for her..

Some of my best friends at Ole Miss were of course, AOIIs, ZTAs, KKGs, Theta's, Tri Delt's, Chi O's, Pi Phi's, and Phi Mu's. I also had two best friends from highschool who attended other schools who were DZ's. I love them all. I enjoyed having friends in other GLOs. It was always fun to eat lunch at their houses or hang out with their members at a football game or a party at a frat house.

Because my school is so Greek it's impossible NOT to have friends in other sororities... I have lots of independent friends, too. I have *many* Chi-O friends and several good Theta friends too.

So i need to post my story here....

Freshman year when I pledged I became very close with a lot of the girls i went through recruitment with, some had been aquaintances beforehand, some who i just met, and some girls were even on my hall. Since there are only 2 sororities we got split up. I ended up pledging w/ some girls i knew beforehand while a majority went to chi omega. When it came time to pick rooms for the next year, due to my lotto number, i ended up being the odd one out when everyone divided up for suites. So i found a girl who i had become close with, who was pledging XO at the time, and lived with her. Through her I met Jenny. Jenny and I since then have become the best of friends, we are inseperable at times, and manage to leave the sorority stuff out of everything. I also love Nancy who is another XO who, together we have come to the conclusion that simply being greek makes us sisters (esp. on a campus where greeks are sometime stigmatized, a dying breed...haha), we support eachother in everything, they even congratulate me on good recruitment events, etc... Life got better this year when XO moved their "house" next door to the <sum><sum><sum> house (where I live), so now jenny and nancy are just a fire escape away. I can't imagine my life without the two of them, and all my other incredible XO friends, almost as much as I can't imagine my life without my sigma sisters.

I had to rush at UNT as a sophmore due to a last minute change in schools my freshman year. My rush group was comprised of mostly sophmores, and most of us lived in the same apartment complex. As we went through rush we became really close. Mostly because of the stress :rolleyes: . They supported me when they found out how clueless I was about rushing, specifically recs. After rush (I did not receive a bid, and there was no COB) we still stayed close even though no two went to the same org. We had a KKG, Pi Phi, DZ & XO. It was a great group. We went to fraternity parties together, ate lunch, went shopping. I am so grateful they were such great girls. I couldn't regret going through rush, I made really great friends in the process. :)

When I was in college, there were a bunch of us from all different sororities at Elon that were very close(AOTT, AZD and Sigma Kappa). I always liked being friends with people in different groups because it meant your social circle was bigger and you had more opportunities for fun!
Now that I am out of college, I live with a Chi O from another school and I am friends with a lot of her Chi O friends and from being the AOTT advisor, I have gotten to be close with a lot of the other advisor for the different groups at GSU(lonnnggg hours doing bid matching will do that to you). I really do feel(and yes, I am a cheese ball!) that no matter the letter, we are all greek together!

YAY!!!!:D

I'm so glad that you all have shared your stories. I hope you loved reading them as much as i did! Its funny how things work out and things fall into place.

YAY FOR BEING GREEK!!!!

These stories are so wonderful to hear.
My freshman room-mate tried to get me to rush and I just wasn't interested. After seeing how much fun she was having and all the friends that she had I decided that I would rush my sophmore year. I changed schools and ended up accepting a bid from a different ADPi instead of AGD. I know she was disappointed but we still remained the best of friends and when she came to visit me she also went to visit her sisters in the AGD house.

One of my best friends is a Delta Sigma Theta, she crossed before me, and I got a view of greek life from her. My other best friend is an Alpha Phi Alpha.

I love these stories, so I figured I'd share mine...

By the way, I don't know why I was never Panhellenic Delegate... was nominated for it, but seriously, after reading this, you might wonder, too. :)

My first 2 years at UCR, there was always this "connection" between the Gamma Phis and Kappas. Come to find out, it's been like that pretty much since the dawn of sorority time at UCR (1975ish). So I had some Kappa friends, and we'd go out occasionally or hang out at parties (even though I thought they hated me at first... but they continually invited me back during rush... oh well- still love them). There was this one Kappa, Courtney, who I thought was so gorgeous, and I thought "she must be the biggest b*tch," mainly because she was dating an ATO who (I still maintain) looks like Paul Walker. Well, come to find out, my junior year, my boyfriend at the time ended up going with her and bunch of people to celebrate her 21st. I didn't know her, but I trusted him and told him to go (I was the only one who was underage and busy that night anyways). So they go, they have fun, etc. She talks to me the next day in Commons because she thought I'd be upset for some reason that she had hung out with my boyfriend. She was SO NICE TO ME!

So we all start hanging out in our big group of friends... she's over at my boyfriend's apt. all the time, we go to parties and dinner together, and then she up and graduates and moves back to NorCal... I was so sad because I thought this great girl that I started to have the most fun with was going to never talk to me again. Wrong, as usual. She and I would talk almost daily. My boyfriend and I went to visit her shortly after that and we've become best friends. I could not live without having her in my life!

Now for the Panhellenic part of me... my group of friends at the BI (club in the 909): me, a bunch of Delts, a bunch of ATOs, a bunch of baseball players (a fraternity in itself), a bunch of Gamma Phis, a bunch of Kappas, a bunch of Alpha Chis, occasionally a few Pi Phis... it's like Greekfest...

One of my best friends from high school is ADPi at another school... her other good friends are Alpha Phis and Alpha Chis (they call themselves "Alpha sisters")

People I used to work with and hang out with on a regular basis are Kappas, Pi Phis, Alpha Chis, DGs, Sigma Kappas, etc... It's really odd... but I love how there's no drama with it.

:D

I have a good friend of mine who is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha. He's the one who got me going on the idea of going greek.

I never really had contact with guys in other GLO's outside of working on IFC JBoard with them.

After this past summer, i can tell you that one of the greatest guys i know and probably one of the best friends i've had is a LXA.

I think y'all all know who i'm talking about.

But seriously, the more we hung out, the more i realized how we felt the same way about a lot of things and were really similar minded guys. (except that he's a manwhore :D)

Anyway, he's one of the best fraternity men i know and i'm proud to call him my friend.

Kitso
KS 361 Texas Music CD's i'm gonna have to hide, because listening to them makes my homesick.

Okay, so here's a long story, but the background is needed to understand how I wound up where I am....

My freshman year, I talked myself out of participating in Formal Recruitment. One of my best friends decided to go through recruitment, and went Kappa Delta. Within the next week, another of my friends was COR'ed into KD, and was initiated the same time as my first friend. The second friend was my roommate for sophomore year, and I was really excited for her.

The beginning of sophomore year, my roommate invited a number of the girls that lived on our floor freshman year to our room for a "reunion". Little did I know that her sisters were coming over to extend bids to our four friends (myself excluded). I felt a little uncomfortable, even though I love the KD's, but it did help me to decide to go through formal recruitment that spring.

When recruitment came along, I was gung-ho about going KD (I really knew nothing about going through recruitment and about the other sororities). I was going through the rounds, going back to the chapters that invited me back (I never had to make the grueling decision of cutting a chapter), until Theme Night. I had an exam for getting into the education program at our university, and when I registered, I didn't know it was being held at our university (the booklet said that it wasn't on that date), so I signed up to take the exam at a university that was a three hour drive away (and in a different time zone). I wrote a note to the chapters explaining why I wasn't going to be there for that night, and drove off to go to my exam (I was staying the night with my aunt and uncle who lived 5 minutes from the campus).

When I arrived back at my university the next day, I found out that KD had cut me from preference night and I was left with only two choices for preference night. I was stunned and upset, but I composed myself and went to the preference parties anyways. I found my "home" that night in ADPi, and I've never regretted it since!

At our university, the KD's and ADPi's shared a floor in the sorority dorm, so the two chapters got along really well! And also, throughout the other years I was there, I became friends with women in each of the chapters we had (we had a total of 7 chapters on campus), and my friendships with them have allowed the greatest of respect for their organizations to grow within me. I'm so glad that I do have friends in other GLO's....you learn so much more about Greek Life in general! :)

GPhiAngel...I know a couple of the UCR Alpha Chi's and they are such great women, no wonder you hang out with them. (Special shout out to Lauren if she reads this!)

there needs to be more sorority girls

When I was in college, my freshman roommate and I decided to rush. She pledged Alpha Phi and I DPhiE. We were still very good friends and we became friends with each other's sisters. One of my pledge sisters lived on a floor with a lot of Phi Sigs and we remained friends for all four years. I got involved with IGC as a sophomore and junior and became friendly with an AXiD and an SDT.

In terms of fraternities, I was very close with a few AEPis. I was also friendly with Pi Lams, Betas, Sig Eps, Kappa Alpha Psi, and a local fraternity.

My best friend from home is a Phi Sigma Sigma. We wanted to join the same organization, but Phi Sig is the only organization at her school and we don't have it at Elon. We're both extremely happy with our own sororities, though, and she is going to be the maid of honor in my wedding next year!:)

Surprised
 

I'm surprised to see so few guys post on this. I have a few friends in every other fraternity, but here on campus my fraternity as a whole gets along well with Kappa Sigma. There the only other house on campus I could see myself fitting in well with. There are guys in Kappa Sigma that chill at our house more than some of our own guys...

My best friend from home is a Phi Sigma Sigma.
Another girl from home I'm close with is a ZTA, and because I was CONSTANTLY over her apt studying for physics last year, I know all her roommates who are ZTAs.
One of my current teammates on the track team is a Delta Zeta, and a former teammate is Zeta Tau Alpha.

My youngest brother went ATO.. He's a cool guy besides that.

For a Sigma Nu that's not necessarily something to be proud of...:D

i live in a house with another ADPi, 2 KD's, and a Chi O. My best friend from high school is a Phi Mu.

My best friend from home is a Lambda Chi...at college I was friends with a few people from other orgs.

My two best friends from high school went to UCF - one was a KD and the other was an AZD (she actually is not the reason I chose AZD). Also, another close friend (known her since we were 5!) went to Winthrop and was a ZTA there. A couple of girls who I was friends with through band in hs were Phi Mus at UF, and another good friend from high school was a Kappa at FSU.

Now, on to college! :) I had a friend from work who became a DZ, and that didn't affect our friendship at all. There were two
Phi Mus who I became friends with, as well as another DZ, and an Alpha Chi. Also, I worked with a girl who was a ZTA at my school, and we became GREAT friends! I would joke and call her my "unofficial little sister" - she was even a bridesmaid in my wedding! Actually, my wedding party was composed of 2 ZTA's (from different schools), a KD and an AZD! If that doesn't show diversity, I don't know what does! ;)

ETA: Oh! I almost forgot about the friend who was a Sigma Kappa at Auburn!

We had a fairly large Greek Community at my school, and I was involved in quite a few committees (including Panhel Exec) that allowed me to become close to members of other chapters. One of my good friends is a Pi Phi, her best friend is an A D Pi, I had a close friend that was an A O Pi (but then she got weird, and that's a whole 'nother story). One summer I lived with a Chi O, another summer I lived with an A D Pi, another summer I lived with the aforementioned A O Pi. One of my good friends from my rush group is an A Chi O, another one went Theta (but then left). I love being part of such a wonderful Panhellenic community! :)

I am friends with quite a few Alpha Gamma Deltas :D I am also friends with a Kappa that my best friend worked with, and when I was a counselor at summer camp I met a TON of sorority women, Pi Phis, Kappas, DGs, DZs. Alpha Phis, Chi O, they were all lovely women and I keep in contact with all of them !!