Every person I've ever told, face to face, that I was in a Sorority has been taken aback. They look at me with that "you?? no way" face. Do I have a 3rd eye? a MoHawk? Rainbow colored hair? No teeth? No, nothing of that sort. I'm just not your "typical sorority girl".
First of all, I'm opinionated (lol, which is both good and bad at times), I'm active at school, I'm outgoing, I'm a brunette, I'm "over-weight" (
i hate that term, what "weight" is the magic one that you are either over or under???
) *which I think is the biggest problem they have (no pun intended) with picturing me in a sorority* and I'm "different". See, by different, I mean I'm not afraid to be a leader, to do what I want to do and not care what other people think.....If i want to wear my pjs to class because it's comfortable (although i've not done that, i can see myself doing it
) I've been a tomboy for most of my life, hanging around guys and being friends with guys all through HS. I joined a sorority to meet and make girl friends, because I knew I was missing out on somethings (like girltalk!!!) but I've made my share of guy friends through being a sorority (ironic, but true).
If you measure me by "typical sorority girl standards", I don't fit into most of the clothes in express so I guess I don't own much from there. I love my fraternity guy friends (Sig Eps rock my world! Love to the SPE's out there) and I hang out with them a lot, but I don't "make my way through the house" so to speak.
I know how to have fun without getting drunk, I like to dance without turning it into a stripclub, and I can not only handle life in a blow-dryer pink and fluffy world, but I can live 2 months in primitive camping environment (i worked as a girl scout counselor all summer long). I can get dressed up one night and then get down and dirty outside the next....I can throw a football and paint my nails......I can write calligraphy and appreciate a good hockey game, rinkside......I am a woman in every meaning of the word, and if I don't fit into some "sorority girl mold" I'm not sorry....I'm not one thing, I'm many. But one of the things that makes me the most proud, is that I can say
I am a Delta Gamma
Greek Love and Mine
Mandie