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Originally Posted by littleowl33
ETA: I meant to add something about how Johns Hopkins as a school relates to the greeks there. I think the biggest thing is that there's definitely an atmosphere of "work ALWAYS comes first." In the past we've had some well-meaning LCs who had trouble with this - for example, one wanted us to go sit in the cafeteria for hours, wearing our letters, to promote the group. Sisters were pretty incredulous because they had too many other things to do, like research, lab work, studying, jobs, etc. In all the NPC groups here it's very much an attitude of school first, everything else (including my sorority) second. I've seen girls disaffiliate (in all 3 groups on campus) because they felt the sorority was demanding too much of them and it was interfering with their workload. And we don't even have that many required events, for that reason specifically! I don't know how much of all this is typical of greeks at other universities (regardless of US News ranking), but it's definitely something I've noticed here that differs from the attitudes of greeks I've met at some other schools.
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Carnegie Mellon was very much the same way. Our campus was silent on Sunday through Thursdays. Mandatory functions were only held on the weekends.
I was at my GLO's regional meeting a couple of years ago when it happened to be in Baltimore. I spoke to a couple of alums who advised the chapter at JHU. They truly didn't understand the workloads of JHU students. Many decades ago, I remember the same problem with the CMU advisors. They just didn't understand the typical Tartan and the amount of work we had. My brother went to MIT, was very involved with his fraternity (lived in the house all 4 years), and even was an intercollegiate athlete for them. Somehow he managed to strike the balance.