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Originally posted by Amaterasu
Thank you southernelle for your advice. As for the question about my counselor...when I go back to visit my old high school I always make a point of seeing her, and when I was in high school we were closer because she was the one who encouraged me to choose the college I wanted to attend, and not just go to a community/public state college because my mother and father wanted me to do that. But it's not really like we email back and forth or anything like that...
As for Blue Reign...I'm not exactly sure what you meant when you said "I am hopng that you don't go around talking like this..." I appreciate your advice, but do you mean that I shouldn't be talking about how I feel? I am not speaking of any organization in particular but just my lack of knowledge about the actual process, and that's not because of lack of research. And trust me, my background has not stopped me from getting involved in every possible thing I can handle with time and still be dedicated to and participate wholeheartedly, regardless of whether I want to join a Greek or not. I am always my proud self, and I don't feel like I should have to...I don't want to say hide or change, because those are strong words. But sometimes I suppose it feels like I have to shoehorn myself into a "stereotype"...and I don't want to do that.
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Amaterasu,
You have stated some particular things your post that can possibly suggest to many members of the greek community which organization you are speaking of.
Have you searched our boards on stuff like these issues? Because if you have, notes do get shared by all the NPHC BGLO's sororities...
What can I say, it sounds like you attend a HBCU--a very popular one at that. You are an outsider looking in. You have no exposure to the bourgiousie. But how are your grades? Do you participate in the "Debate Club" for example? How are your oratory skills, your networking skills, your knowledge in academia skills? If you are really about the learning, the reason why you are going to college in the first place, then the questions is why would you really want to be a part of a sorority? What purpose will it serve you and how will you serve it?
There is only one specific legal way to enter at least my Sorority based on information I have just gotten from my International Headquarters. That is the ONLY WAY you are to follow at this time. Any other way you heard of that is not written on a bonafide sheet of paper--practically notarized--and you have had to signed for that information at a designated time from an official older member of my Sorority is NOT the way...
I am saying this statement because, YES, the members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. do have to be that hardcore about it...