[QUOTE=BabyPiNK_FL;2060770]Do I wish I'd had more time with my chapter? Hell to the mutha****in' yes! BUT people will have regrets about various things all their lives. That doesn't mean it's not worth living.
I agree, and I didn't mean to imply that she felt like it wasn't worth living. Like you, she thinks that along with the cons, there have been some advantages to pledging as an upperclassmen (or sophomore precisely).
I just feel that AGDee had a point in saying that there are some disadvantages as well, depending on the girl, the chapter, and the school that an upperclass PNM might need to take into account. There are some things about the collegiate sorority experience that she thinks she missed out on and will miss out on, but she still feels like its been a great experience and totally worth it in the long run.
She's at a school in the northwest, so she knows zero about the SEC experience or what that tradition is like. All she has as a comparison are the freshman in her own pledge class at her pretty non-competitive school where upperclassmen PNM's aren't the norm - but they aren't an endangered species either.
