[KSUViolet06]

I did both as well.

I joined my service org before I joined my sorority, so I thankfully was not pledging in both orgs simultaneously. It was still very time-consuming.

There were many instances where events overlapped and I had to make a decision about which events were of the highest priority for each group, and which were things I could be excused from. For example, Initiation weekend for my sorority vs. out-of-town conference for my service group. Those are sometimes hard decisions to make, because you just can't attend everything.

Be aware of the expectations of both groups BEFORE you make a commitment to do both.

Often, there are girls who join a service org, then go through recruitment without knowing how time consuming a sorority is. So they join a sorority, and end up depledging because they couldn't handle doing both.

The opposite is also true. Girls who are in sororities pledge service orgs thinking "Well, I managed to join my sorority, how much more can this be?" They don't realize that many service org chapters have just as many, if not more, events than their NPC sorority has every week. So they end up dropping out of the service org.

I guess what I'm saying is really think about whether this is something you can realistically do, that way you don't make a commitment to something and find out later that you never thought it would be so much work.