my mom was in a sorority (Purdue/AGD) so she was really excited when I decided to rush - very supportive of whatever my decision would be and just plain happy i was making the most of the college experience!
my dad was funny about it, he just said, what i'm going to be footing the bill for this too, right ? of course dad
but i could tell he would be happy as long as I was happy - he wasn't greek, but his sister was, so he never thought greek life would be bad for me.
my older sister was indifferent - she doesn't exactly like or agree with the greek system - its just not her thing. she went to the university of illinois for her first year of college, but she said it was too greek for her, the system kind of runs the social life down there.
my younger sister though it was great - she steals my event shirts (especially the fraternity ones!!!) whenever i go home and she loves my sisters and they love itwhen she comes to visit - needless to say, I'm hoping she'll come to Iowa (but she's really interested in Maryland and Georgetown too!) and pledge DZ - but if she doesn't, i know she'll be an asset to whatever lucky sorority that gets her!
My friends, thats where the support kind of stops. I think out of my huge group of high school friends, a grand total of 6 of us went greek - 2 guys here went Kappa Sig and 2 gous went Sigma Chi at U of Illinois and a DG at u of IL too - that's it. Everyone always thought greek life was a waste of time/money and nothing but a bunch of cookiecutter look alikes. theyre all completely happy not to be greek - and they realize that i'm hapy where i am too. its hard b/c at school i have two groups of friends who compete for my attention - and i hate to turn either of them down for weekend plans. I usually go out with my sisters and other greek friends one night and my high school friends the next - we've tried all doing something together, but they really don't have that much in common, or at least that's what they say....