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Originally posted by Tyler_PKT
how close can you be to 100 other people.
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Maybe this is difficult to understand unless you've lived it, but you can be really close to a large percentage of your chapter even when your chapter has 130 + members. A lot of how close you are depends upon whether you are living together, eating together, taking classes together, partying together and staying up all night studying together.
I lived in a chapter house with 56 other women for 3 years. I changed rooms and roommates every quarter. In the course of those 3 years I lived with more than 20 different sisters. I never lived with my best friends in the house (we thought we might kill one another).
Now that I've been out of school for 6 years, I keep in close contact with all but one of the women who I lived with and a large number of the women who lived in the house at the same time I did. We live all over the world (my little, Jane, lives in Paris with her husband and daughter), but the ties that we formed through those long nights and fights over closet space will last forever.
I don't think that size is vital to your greek experience unless you have membership recruitment problems and you spend all of your collegiate years recruiting new members. If you are at a size that is competitive on your campus then that is what is important.