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I knew I would join a sorority from the time I was a little girl. My mom always talked positively about it and my aunt, who is more like a big sister to me and I idolized as a child, was an Alpha Gamma Delta. Going Greek was just the natural thing to do.
By the time I was actually looking ahead to college and thinking about really doing it, I had more definite reasons in mind. For one, I went to an extremely cliquey high school.....but it was weird cliquey. The most "popular" girls were not necessarily the prettiest or the ones with the most money. I'm not really sure what the criteria was that originally put them in place, but I can assure you that it wasn't based on genuine niceness either! Anyway, I had grown up with these girls and been friends with them from the time we were just little, and I got so tired of the whole goofy system that I wanted to escape. I saw going Greek as a way of shunning my past and moving forward with a new group of people. I also wanted the chance to be involved in my school.....it is a lot harder to be really involved when you go from a high school of 1200 to a campus of 30000 and I knew that going Greek would be one way of helping me to do so. I also was, admittedly, interested in meeting the guys!!!! I thought that being Greek might offer me some help and guidance in the way of academics. I knew about a lot of the activities and thought it sounded like fun.....I mean, honestly the social aspect was pretty much most of it. At my school, you were either "with it" or "out of it" and with as small of a greek system as we had for a large school, it was all pretty exclusive and attractive.
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