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Pledged
Wow! I just finished reading this booking this morning and I randomly came across this chat, how strange!
I go to Southern Methodist University (the school which started and finished the book) and it is true about the "pig run", but the intent behind the run isn't as Ms. Robbins wrote it to be. I ran to my house because I knew that I belonged in my house and I wanted to be with my new sisters and put on my sorority letters as soon as possible. My guy friends in fraternities (who had received their bids the night before and maybe still drunk from the celebrated, I will admit that to be true) sought us out in the crowds of squealing girls and congratulated us on bids, they did not throw raw meat or water balloons at us!
I went to an all girls' boarding high school, and I think what Ms. Robbins doesn't realize is that no matter where or how 100 plus girls are organized there are going to be the pushy/mean girls, the "goody-goody tattle tale girls", the drug users, and the reclusive girls. I don't think that many of the dynamics that Ms. Robbins speaks about in her book are true to only sorority life but true to a girl's life. At my boarding school we had the same drama about roommates, boyfriends and senioritis!
I mostly feel that this book takes the facts from four girls lives and blames their problems on sorority life and not the reality of the college.
P.S. being the nosy gossiper that I am... I was wondering if anyone knew which school Ms. Robbins based her book on? I know that there is an Eta Gamma chapter of Delta Gamma at Texas Tech which I wonder if one of the alumna interviewed is from... sorry just being a busy-body!
Meredith
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