[astroAPhi]

You don't need to join a fraternity to get hookups. So I can see how you would be unfulfilled if that was what you joined for.

I knew I was going to rush before I even went to college. Not to have dates, hookups, popularity, etc. but because I was friends with a Greek woman who I looked up to and she told me what Greek Life was SUPPOSED to be like.

I don't think a GLO is anything you should worship, but it implies that you want something more of your womanhood/manhood. It means that you want to be an upstanding member of society and you are willing to take others under your wing to help them become that after you know what it means.

I can safely say that I wouldn't have all the leadership opportunities that I've had if I hadn't joined Alpha Phi. I've been Athletics, which has taught me how to motivate and keep together a team. I've been Historian, which has helped me learn how to get projects done on my own and use my creativity to make a final project. I've been Chaplain, which has taught me to be the serious one who tries to inspire others through thought and sprituality. Nowhere else have I been able to have such a wide variety of positions. Yet, I expect I will have to use all of these skills in the real world. In other supposed "leadership organizations", all I learned is that people are greedy, power hungry, and you can't get anything done most of the time because people are like that. Yes, it's an important lesson to learn, but I sure as hell didn't learn any positive leadership abilities.

I got something out of my Greek experience. Yeah, some people who join "don't get it", and there are groups that sit around and drink and party all the time and stumble through their ritual or don't even do it. I won't lie, it happens. But if they don't get anything out of it, then I sure don't feel too bad when they claim that being Greek was no big deal.