What were your best memories of living in your house?
 

I just found out that I'm living in my sorority house next year! I couldn't be more excited, and I was wondering...would y'all like to share your best memories of living in?


EDIT: Typo, sorry. I'm living in NEXT year!

I loved it when the crazy alumnae came back and crashed on our couches. Sometimes I'd come downstairs after heading to bed kinda early, and there'd be 3 or 4 of them sprawled out all over the place.

I also lived across the hall from my sister-mother, and down the hall from one of my very best friends. We ended up all living together off campus the next year, my brother met my friend and fell in love, and now they're married.:)

We had a great porch with a swing. A sister and I sat out on that swing for 11 hours one Saturday. We only got up to go to McDonalds. The greatest part was that people would walk by, stop and talk to us for a while, then come back later in the day hoping we were still out there.

The best part of living in the house, though, was that I didn't have to get ready early for stuff. We only had 9 people in the house, everyone else had to come over for stuff. So I could start getting ready about 20 minutes before (if I didn't have to shower or do my hair) and I'd be ready just in time to go downstairs and meet everyone!

We did not have a house :(

The morning after the big party.

Everyone's hung over sitting downstairs still pretty drunk recounting and embellishing the nights events.

We had an all sorority dorm. I loved meeting in our hallway to rally before a mixer or event. We were on the third floor so noises always carried downward. We'd sing and chant and generally make lots and lots of noise so that the other chapters knew what fun we were about to have!

Raids!

yup, that was the best.

Watching soaps together, borrowing clothes...basically all the little day to day things are the best memories, just as much if not more than the big events.

Hate to say this because it wasn't OK then and it's certainly not OK now, but pregaming to go out! You almost had more fun getting ready than you did at the actual party. Also- skipping class on Friday morning after a night out and laying around outside.

I also still love the morning-after recaps, Elephant Walk. I do it with my roommates now but it's not the same as having everyone all together.

I also was someone who could study easily with noise/others around. Studying for finals was always fun and productive at the same time!

The little stuff was the best.

Studying until 2AM in the dining room with my little sister and laughing when the Papa Johns could never get her very specific pizza order right.

Sitting on the porch swing with my other little sister for two hours one night because she needed a sympathetic ear.

Doing cartwheels and handstands in the formal living room every year after the furniture was removed for rush.

Sitting in the upstairs lounge, staying awake to chat and giggle until the sun came up.

Having impromptu slumber parties with the girls next door, even though my room was only 3 feet away.

Always being up on the news/gossip about boyfriends and greek stuff.

V-E-R-Y late night trips to Wal-mart because I smudged the paint on my lil sis's Shoe Hunt shoe and it had to be perfect for big sis revealing! (Wal-mart employees give you strange looks when you buy baby shoes at 3 in the morning!)

I realize that I can't live somewhere quiet after living in the house. It drives me crazy.

I don't know what I'm going to do when I graduate.

I have the greatest memories from living in the house, it was definitely my greatest year of college.

-Always having someone to go out with (or have a mellow night with) no matter what night of the week.

-Becoming close friends with girls from other pledge classes that you didn't know that well.

-The Nip/Tuck multiple season marathon we decided to have during finals week fall semester. We would all watch together, stop when someone had to leave for an exam, and start back up again when they got back. We'd stay up until all hours of the night until we finished all the seasons we had rented.

-Borrowing clothes (I STRONGLY suggest getting your borrowed clothes back the next day, even if that means you having to wash them. I can't count how many clothes I lost from living in the house.)

-Friday morning recaps, girls rolling in from the night before, picking girls up from spending the night out, etc.

-Always being the first to know house/greek gossip.

Easily the best is the morning after a party night where everybody is sprawled out hungover in the TV room telling stories and watching girls come back to the house. I also loved getting ready for a theme party or mixer when everybody is running around laughing at each others costumes. Love the late-night food raids in the kitchen, getting to know random girls really well that you wouldn't have guessed you would get along with, the silly days/nights where we'd have silly string fights or fill up water balloons...one night a girl in our chapter got the idea to make ghost costumes out of sheets and go "haunt" our favorite fraternity. Just being in on all the stupid stuff like that.

It really is the little things! I lived in my chapter house for three years (Sophomore, Junior, and Senior), and I miss it SO much.


* Tooth brushing parties in the morning (I was a lab science major, and so was a large contingent of my house, so we frequently had early [read: 8:00 am] morning classes *ew*)

* Piling into the living room to watch Gray's Anatomy every week.

* Stopping to talk to someone in the hall, and all of a sudden there are 5 of us.

* Not having to go anywhere for chapter!

* Singing Theta songs while showering... with other showering Thetas.

* Having a place to go home to.