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Originally Posted by MissKP
I didn't know that you guys needed my whole college life story to get some information but here goes i guess, i hope its not to boring haha...
I will be 20 when I graduate, I will be married a few weeks later...then I am transfering to Willamette University (which I'm sure no one in GC is familar with because it is tiny and is in Oregon). But anyway...my reasons for wanting to join a sorority in addition to being connected to the university are: being able to have that sisterhood experience, my current university never gave me that opportunity as we don't have a greek system here so now that I'm transferring I want that experience. As I realize some of you out there said get involved in professional activities or other student organizations...well I would love to, if they offered that many. There are absolutely no professional organizations for my major except the MBA club, because it's not a business school...and for other student organizations, there aren't a lot and the only one that even interests me at all is cheerleading since that is what I do now...but I'm done with that so sorority was my number one choice. Plus I like the idea of having the opportunity to do the philanthropies and meeting new girls and giving me the opportunity to meet people and make some life long friends (being a married, transfer, grad student, doesn't exactly give you the best social life.) Okay I hope that answers all your questions...And as for using the search option...I definitely know how and have used it, but the other threads that pertain to this topic have wanted the freshman experience of living in the house...and that's just not my situation, so I was hoping for a different answer. Okay now that this is pages long...I'll be going. I appreciate everyone's replies, you guys are great.  |
Your situation isn't really different at all from many other threads. There have been a number of threads where graduate students want to rush, and are married, etc. so they would not want to live in the house. Living in the house doesn't have a lot to do with it. I'm not familiar with your school, but it doesn't sound like the groups are huge and I wonder if they even have live-in requirements.
I'm not sure what you're talking about with the "freshman experience". I'm not sure what you consider the "freshman experience" aside from living in the house (which rarely freshman do anyway, and in your school's case, freshman don't even go through rush until second semester).
Only a handful of sororities accept graduate students via their policies. But that doesn't mean that individual chapters do. And I do not believe that any of the three sororities that are at this school allow graduate students to rush. Possibly AChiO, but from what the school has been described I don't know that the individual chapter would be open to that idea.
In any event, I would echo others in their statements to concentrate on your graduate program. Sorority membership at the collegiate level is a LOT of time, a lot of late evenings, a lot of weekends. You're going to be a newlywed, don't think your husband would appreciate that (not saying that you need to live your life according to your husband, but you should have some consideration for him!), nor would that leave you a lot of time for what should be a heavy amount of coursework that is much more demanding than undergrad.
I'm sorry that you "missed the boat" on sorority membership, so to speak, but sometimes life works out that way.