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Originally posted by Tyler_PKT
I don't doubt that have lived with a bunch of girls, but I guarante that you couldn't list the first and last name of every girl in your chapter. You might be able to recognize a girl in your class but just because you wear the same letters doesn't mean you've built some great bond.
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Sorry, but you are so wrong. I can name the first and last names of most of the approximately 300 women who were active in my chapter during the 4 years I was there. These were the women who shared in my life every day. When I ran for student government, they were the women who were out wearing sandwich boards on campus, when I broke up with my boyfriend they were the ones who picked me up and put me back together.
I think that it is difficult to understand that you can be really close with such a large number of people until you experience it. Even now as an advisor, I struggle to explain this to chapters that take pledge classes the same size as their active chapters. They always tell me that they like being small -- that they share something that large chapters don't have. After a semester they usually come back and tell me that I was right.
It is not wearing the same letters that creates a bond of sisterhood -- it is the time you share together, the experiences that are common only to you, and the growth that we all experience in college.