[texas*princess]

Wow crunchies. At first I was honestly sympathetic, however after that last post I hope you drop out as quick as you can. Struggling chapters do NOT need members like yourself so stop wasting their time. In your last post you said "oh I should give it more time!" but after this one, you have just validated what everyone else has been posting.

Originally posted by crunchies
Um. Why so much hostility?

I din't spend last year figuring out sororities' reputations beucase I had better things to do with my time than ask around about stereotypes amongst the Greek population, which still remains a small percentage of people on campus. I had no intention of rushing at all until late this summer, and even then I wasn't interested in reputations as much as personality of the girls involved.

You're missing my point about reputations around campus, too. The non-Greek students CAN'T tell one sorority from another, you're right, but because you belong to an organization at all a lot of them make snap judgements about you the other way- that you are snobby, rich, coked-up, have an eating disorder, etc- not necessarily stereotypes I agree with, but not ones I'd like to inflict upon myself, either. The Greeks, who CAN tell, though, think you're a loser.

Incidentally, I don't care about the frats one way or the other. I was just making a point about reputation and the limited social aspect.

And don't pretend that I'm the only person in the world awful and shallow enough to wonder if belonging to an social organization w/ a bad name and mediocre social opportunities is worth my time, effort, and money. Friendship is great and all, but as someone else pointed out, I could make friends on my own that I woudln't have to dish out a couple thousand dollars a year for.

Oh, and I'm not quite sure you totally *got* the gist of James' post.