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Originally Posted by O_Phi_A_Bekah
Just stick to that and I am all for it!
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Haha ok. Welllllll.........It all begins at home this summer when my friends and I were getting ready to go to college. I am from a lareg metropolitan area, full of schools with pretty big greek populations, where most of my friends are going to. For various reasons (which would probably give away not only where I'm from but the region where I now go to school) I decided to go really far away. My friends kept talking about greek life and how excited they were to join sororites and fraternities, and I got sucked into it. I'd heard that greek life at my school wasn't huge, but it was growing, so I was still excited. So the first night of our recruitment events was a special Q&A section where we met only a couple members of each sorority. My school has five sororites, four NPC and one local. They are:
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Lauren Conrad
Lo
Audrina
Whitney
Stephanie Pratt's Hamster
I'm sorry these pseudonyms suck but I'm not feeling too original at the moment.
Anyway: at the Q&A session, we met our PNM groups and Rho Gammas for the next day (we rotated rho gammas throughout the week). The Rho Gammas led us to each group, which had set up tables. We got to talk to each president and recruitment organizers, and a couple other girls from the sorority. My initial thoughts were:
Lauren Conrad- These girls were very nice, and their table had a cute theme. I loved their shirts too, which had a funny phrase on them. I've heard they are one of the smaller sororites though, which kind of dissapointed me. Overall I didn't really have a negative experience, but it wasn't amazing. Plus, I haven't heard much of this sorority before, even though it's a national. (but I'm not that well-versed)
Lo- I loved Lo the moment I sat down. The president was such a sweet girl, and they all had so much spunk. It was obvious that they LOVED their sorority, and were very knowledgeable about it. I also liked that they seemed pretty involved with their philanthropy. They also were so positive about greek life as a whole, instead of just their sorority. However, a bunch of girls told me this sorority was on probation for something from last year...
Audrina- Much like Lo, Audrina had a lot of spunk. I've heard there's kind of a rivalry between Audrina and Lo, and I could kind of see that from Audrina's repsonses to questions about events (our events are the best! etc.) but it didn't really seem negative, just that the two were competitive. Audrina was also a larger house on campus, though I haven't head of them nationally at all. The girls were really nice and seemed eager to answer questions. I thought I loved Lo, but now I really loved Audrina just as much.
Whitney- While I've actually heard of Whitney, they are a smaller house on campus. Bigger than LC, but definitely smaller than Lo and Audrina. The girls seemed sweet, but I could tell they weren't really me. Still, I'd like to talk to them more.
Stephanie Pratt's Hamster- They seemed very disorganized. Their table wasn't well decorated, and isntead of meeting actives, we only met alums. I've heard rumors that this chapter may be closing. Who knows though.
Since the first day was just discussion, there was no cutting or anything. The next day was Philanthropy day, but I'll wait a little before I get to that....