In-House
 

So i have a fun thread...

If you have a Pi Phi house...

Who's Living it in next yr?

Have you lived in it before and anything else u want to add?




This upcomming year 2004-2005 school year will be my 2nd year in the house and i ab. LOVE it... i love my sisters and living in the house has been the best decision i have made... its so much fun!!!
i get to room with my lil sis next yr so im so excited about that!

I lived in the house for my entire sophomore year (2002-2003) and the first half of my junior year, until I went abroad.

I'm living in an apartment in the fall - but most seniors on my campus live in apartments for a variety of reasons. First off, our house has a live-in requirement of one year which most people fulfill soph or jr year. (There is room for a pledge class and a few extras to live in - so not really room for seniors). Also our rooms are really small and by the time you are a senior you just want your own space, plus the way our housing works its possible that you will have to move every quarter (although seniors get squatting priveleges and don't have to move).

I will miss it though! Nothing better than 46 friends living together... although it will be nice to be able to watch the O.C. with less than 20 people in the room!

Re: In-House
 

I'm living in as a senior, should be interesting since there's only going to be six seniors living in this upcoming year. I've lived there two previous years and for the most part I've enjoyed it. It gets a little crazy though with 48 women living in one house. I loved living in last year though because I had awesome roommates. My only complaint really is that because I live there if I'm around I usually get suckered into doing something that I really don't have time for! :) I usually end up enjoying it though! :)

We don't have a house. :(

We're not allowed. :(

Stupid Guelph...stupid by-law :mad:

Oh well, I'm an alum now, so even if we somehow managed to get a house I wouldn't be living there anyway. :(

We have a house, and I will be living in it next year!

We have a living requirement, but since our house holds 20 people and we have around 90 people in the chapter, some members never get a chance to live in the house.

Here's where I've lived:

Freshman year: In the freshmen dorms (like everyone else)
Sophomore year: In the Pi Phi house
Junior year: In the freshmen dorms as a dorm counselor
Senior year: In the Pi Phi house.

I'm excited about it. Living in the house is 100% better than the freshmen dorms, it's much nicer, the food is better, etc. Plus, as President, I'm getting a double as a single this year so I have two closets, two dressers, etc. That should be fun. The main drag is that I'm living off campus this summer, and there will be more restrictions in the house. Most of the people in our house aren't 21 (most people live in sophomore year), and now that I'm 21, it will kinda be a drag in a way. I'm not a huge drinker, but I like having a bottle of wine around, you know? I guess I'll just stash at my boyfriend's apartment! :) But overall I'm really excited about living in. My little little (who was one of my residents this year) is living here and we're supertight so that should be fun. Plus it'll be much easier being President and being immediately accessible in the house.

I am Living in the house AGAIN! ha...as a senior! at that. I lived in the house this past year as well (i was house manager) and lived my first two years in the dorms. Our house only has room for 21 women so obviously not everyone lives in. It's a love/hate relationship for me, but it never gets lonely, there's always something to eat (if the house mom goes shopping ha) and it's right accross from campus! can't get any better than that. It's just hard to do homework, we don't really have a study room or anything. The rooms are small....and really there's no privacy ha~! but hey, it's a beautiful house and i'm doing it again. But i thought 20 roommates was hectic enough! how do you all do it w/50+ girls? Are your houses GINORMOUS!?

pi phi love,
...colleen*

[QUOTE]Originally posted by breathesgelatin
[B]We have a house, and I will be living in it next year!

We have a living requirement, but since our house holds 20 people and we have around 90 people in the chapter, some members never get a chance to live in the house.

Here's where I've lived:

I'm not a huge drinker, but I like having a bottle of wine around, you know? I guess I'll just stash at my boyfriend's apartment! :) But overall I'm really excited about living in.

your house/chapter sound just like ours, and yeah, the alcohol stays at the boyfriend's apartment which is no biggy.

pi phi love,
...colleen*

As totally unbeleivable as it is, I will be a senior living in our house this year. :) I lived there the past two years, also, after spending a year in the freshman dorms. So, no big changes for me. :) I'm using my seniority to move into a big room on the second floor, but sadly, my roommate of the past three years is moving off campus.... So I'm living with her little!

Living in the house is fabulous because it's beautiful, there's always someone around to talk to, and we have an open kitchen. This is a distinct advantage over the other sorority houses which have closed kitchens - a concept I just can't fathom! My boyfriend is extremely fond of our open kitchen policy. :p

I believe we usually have 37 girls living in the house. There are 20 rooms and one is an apartment for the house mother, and the treasurer gets a big single room. I think that comes out to 37 girls in the house, provided no one else gets a single.

I believe our house holds around 50. (Am I about right Jharb?) It does get a little hectic around the house. My junior year, the last time I live in the house, I was in a small room with 3 other girls. It was a tight squeeze, and often we didn't have privacy. But, I wouldn't have changed it for the world. The girls and I became very close, and we ended up having a blast.

Anyway, I don't think our house is "ginormous". I've seen houses much bigger than ours (aka Pi Phi at IU), and the houses on our campus are approximately our size. If anything I think our house is small! LOL.

I wish I had a scanner so I could put a pic of IN Gamma up here...

Our house is fairly average at Butler, we're actually the smallest with a capacity of 48 girls. We have one room with six roommates, a few with four roommates, a bunch with three and a select few with two roommates (these usually have beds). I've only lived in two girl rooms because I've always needed beds in my room and I've loved living in. It can get hectic with all the estrogen, but it;s a blast and is good especially when you've had a fight with a boyfriend or a parent. I wouldn't trade some of my best memories for anything! :)

http://www.uga.edu/pibetaphi/house1.jpg

I lived in our house my soph year and loved it, it holds about 70 girls (I think) and it was a great experience!! Most of us lived there at least one year so it was mostly your own pledge class which made it fun but also some older sisters too.

WOW your house is HUGE!!! are the rooms both upstairs and downstairs? All of our rooms are upstairs, the house mom's apartment is down stairs along with the T-room, Dinning area, another dining area, sub-dining ha! and kitchen. The chapter room, pledge rooms and others are down down stairs.

pi phi love,
...colleen*

P.S how do you but a picture on???

The rooms are mostly upstairs, two person except the corner rooms which were 4 people. The officers lived downstairs and the house mother had a small apartment. We had a tv room upstairs and downstairs, the dining room, sitting room and large living room. We held chapter in the dining room.

as for posting pictures, if you find one on the web, right mouse click on the picture and go under properties, copy the web address and on your reply, hit the IMG buttom and post that web address. It's fairly easy!

i'll be living in the pi phi house next year! I'll be a junior and living on the first floor of our two floored house. We have 36 girls living in the house. Our house set up is interesting because they are like dorms, suite style. I'm real excited not only because i get to live close to my angels, but the convince for those weekly meetings. What for all the girls who have lived in the house, is your best memory?

Definately the late-late night study sessions in the dining hall... We all go down in PJs and it's so much fun... !! :) :) Oh, I love the house.

Another great memory is getting ready before any formal. Can you say FRENZY? :D

House memories
 

I have lived in our house for two years, and almost every day there is a great memory. I've lived on the main floor both those years - only ten of us in five rooms there, so we were all very close. I love all of our late night movies, study sessions, and talks, and it's fun when all ten of us are crowded into the bathroom getting ready to go out. ;)

I think my favorite house memory is a little tradition we have just for the girls in the house: At 2am on the night after our "Pi Phi Christmas" party, the seniors come around with (battery powered) candles singing Silent Night, wake us all up and gather us all into the living room. There, the president reads "The Littlest Angel" and we sing Christmas carols while enjoying cookies and milk. It's a fun time of sisterhood for the in-house girls.

But really, the best things that happen in the house are just the friends you make when you live so close to all your sisters. :)

Knox College does not allow sorority houses >: ( We have what we call "The Bungalow" instead...it's a tiiiiiny 2 bedroom one bathroom house where we hold meetings and ceremonies with the exception of initiation....we do that at The Holt House

Oh my gosh....."The Littlest Angel" *sigh* that book makes me cry...one of my childhood favorites...

Hey,
I always wondered: why don't some colleges allow fraternities to have houses? Doesn't make much sense to me, unless they are outlawed, which they clearly aren't.

Man, you angels have some seriously beautiful digs. Our cute lil house holds 7 girls at capacity and boy does it get crowded. I've never had the chance to live in the house (can't afford it -boohoo!). Used to have a pic on the website; apparently no more. No worries though. we are currently trying to get our grubby hands on a new one, our University wants to level all the houses in our area and put up apartments (which suck-diddly-uks because all the houses are, like, 80 years old)

ppl,
c.

Some colleges don't allow fraternities (men or women) to have house because of local zoning laws (and no, I'm not referring to the urban myth of the brothel law-- no such law exists). Many communities have enacted regulations limited size of residences, or number of occupants, etc that preclude a sorority or fraternity living there. Other campuses have rules enacted because someone endowed something years ago contingent on not having Greek housing (that's why you sometimes see men have houses while women do not-- like at Miami of Ohio)

As an advisor to Ohio Theta, we thought we'd come up with an ingenious solution to the lack of on-campus housing when the chapter was first colonized. We rented out all 8 apartments in an off-campus apartment building which was built with a common room for our use as a chapter. Well, guess what? The neighbors didn't mind (we were certainly quieter that the fraternities who were across the street) but the zoning commissioner did. One year, and many thousands of dollars to lawyers later, we lost the legal battle and had to take down the letters, could not meet or rush there (although the women could still live in there, since they'd signed their own leases).

I finally was able to get a picture of my house (and jharb's). :)

http://www.geocities.com/erniegurl0057/PiPhiHouse1.jpg

*envious*

Butler girls, your house is gorgeous! :)

Thanks. :) I took some pictures of our formal area on my regular camera, but I have to wait to go through the entire roll to post it. Knowing how I take pictures, well, it could be near Xmas or next summer. :D

Wanted to jump on the house picture bandwagon. :) This is Michigan Alpha's humble abode:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...0Phi/piphi.jpg

wvu
 

hey.... heres a link to my house
The West Virginia Alpha Chapter at WVU

http://www.geocities.com/josiewvu/house

i <3 my house and its right on the main Street University Ave so we all sit out on the frount porch between classes when the weather is good :) our house holds 36 people and its soo much fun, it goes back all the way to the next street so it doesnt look big but its very long =)

Iv lived here one yr and ill be moving in in a Week!!!!
I <3 living in the house

I had to dig up this old thread because I'm moving into the house for the 2005-2006 school year! Our house has 10 bedrooms and each holds 3 girls. We have a big community bathroom. I'll be living in room 4. I'm very excited but kind of nervous, because I've never shared a bedroom or bathroom before! I guess we'll see how it goes...

hey dont be nervous its soo much fun, iv lived in my house for 2 yrs and im living in it again... i love it soo much, the crazyest random stuff happens at like 2am and its soo much fun. its so much fun to come home after a party or somthing and just chill with your sisters and wake up the next morn we all go down to the living room and like talk about all the crazy things that happened the night before... it seriously is the best experience ever, and im gonna remember those random nights and mornings forever.... your gonna have a blast !!!