How did you learn about Greek life?

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by SydneyK

(For instance, there wasn't a Sigma Kappa chapter on my campus, so I never realized how my username would make people look twice!)

Lol, I think it's just me. But anyway.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Lol, I think it's just me. But anyway.

No, I keep thinking it too.

[Synergy_21]

I learned Greek Life through research...books, internet, and current Greeks

[RedAngel]

For me it was church. Many members were members of different greek organizations.

[DGTess]

Not only had I never met anyone who was greek, I was only the second member of my family to attend college - and the first was way out west (we're from New England) and I hadn't seen her in years.

The summer before my freshman year, after I had signed an acceptance letter, I got a pen pal.

Turns out, the panhellenic women on campus divvied up the incoming freshmen women, and one or two wrote to each woman. Personal letters. Things like what to take to school, what college was like (yeah, 1973 was before internet; HBO was the "new" channel that came in addition to NBC, CBS, ABC, and local public TV; and I had never run across a book on it.)

The women in no way hid their greek affiliation, or their house.

These women also helped us move in on move-in day, along with the frat guys to lift big stuff.

My pen pal was president of the DG chapter. I never attended a rush event for another chapter.

Nowadays, that's somehow "not fair."

Many of our sisters pledged their sophomore years. Each of the five houses had a real personality, so it was easy to see where you might fit, if you just watched for a while. Then it was just a matter of seeing whether the feeling was mutual.

[DIKMeister]

Originally Posted by bengay

This is why we're here to learn more about greek life. My fraternity brothers and I all went to a fraternity rush. We didn't like the way they did things or the decisions they made, so we started our own. Delta Iota Kappa. At the same time we knew older glos within the IFC/NIC/NPC have a lot of knowledge too, so that's why we're here to recruit. We have nothing agaist any of you. We repsect your glos, we just wanted to be different.

I love being greek.

Hey there brother. Good to see another member posting on GC.

[tld221]

so bengay, DIKMeister, and one more... interesting. reallytho? god.

[AOII Angel]

Now don't laugh...my first exposure to sororities came with the Saturday Night Lives- Delta Delta Delta can I help ya, help ya, help ya? skits! I think back and wonder how mad this must have made the Tri Delts. When my sister went to school, my mom pushed her to go through rush, since she would be 180 miles from home without any of her friends. She told my sister that she had a roommate in college who was an AOII pledge. She would have loved to join AOII, but she didn't want to ask her parents for more money since money was tight. She also, incidentally, told us that our aunt was a ZTA (at the same school) which was a "Jewish sorority!" Yeah...I know, I have no idea what she was talking about, especially since this area of Louisiana has never had a very large Jewish population! ZTA had dissolved at NLU by the time we went. My sister went to school, loved AOII and Phi Mu and had a very hard time choosing between the two. When she became an AOII, it almost seemed like fate. I still think about getting my mom to join as an alumna.

[ThetaPrincess24]

My father iand other family members are greek. The first university I attended also sent me a booklet on greek life as well. Other than that, I learned from watching greeks on campus and reading articles about them in the student paper(there were as many good articles as bad ones). It wasnt until I transferred to another university that I found out greek systems are different at each school.

I've gained some knowledge about other greek systems here on greek chat and I think we all have to a degree. SO many though that come here seeking information fail to consider the source before making decisions.

[DaffyKD]

I joined way back when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth. I had no intentions of having anything to do with Greek life and all those "rich, snobby, clicky girls." My father had been in a national fraternity that is now defunct and he never talked about it (I did not know about Kappa Nu until quite a while after I pledged). The first I knew of rush, was when the school sent out a mailing during the summer. It all went directly into the trash. Since my mother and I did not get along, right after a really bad fight, I saw the rush information still sitting in the trash in my room and pulled it out. Included in the information was the fact that there would be one dorm opened a week early for rush, you could move in there during rush provided you rushed and should you drop out of rush, you could remain in the dorm until the other dorms opened. Ok, so I would go to the first day parties, drop out and spend the rest of my time at the beach. Didn't work out that way as I loved KD which was my first house, so I changed my plans, I would stay in rush until KD dropped me which I knew they would since I had no self confidence and had been the least popular person in my entire HS so who would want to pledge me. Well, the rest became history, and I am and have been a KD forever now.


DaffyKD

[Ivygirl8985]

I really didn't know too much about Greek Life except for what the school sent out about the chapters on our campus. It was basic...colors, symbols, etc. Once I found out which chapters were on my campus I looked for their sites online. None of the chapters (on my campus at least) had their own at the time so I looked at their international sites and a few sites that popped up first on google.

[GeekyPenguin]

I wanted to rush my freshman year (the last year my school did formal recruitment) because I thought it would be fun to join Theta Phi Alpha since they were a Catholic sorority and hello, penguins! Little did I know they had folded the previous fall. My boyfriend at the time joined SigEp that spring and two different local sororities were trying to convince me to join, but they did so much stupid hazing. I think I was researching hazing laws or something when I tumbled onto GC and then decided I would rush the one NPC left on our campus.

[BabyPiNK_FL]

I'd always heard of greek life from Black GLOs and "A Different World" etc. When I got to college, they gave a presentation on greek life at orientation and all I heard (or remember rather) was "rush a fraternity" which didn't apply to me since I was a girl! I didn't see or know a lot about Greek Life at my school, I went to classes and then went to work honestly.

Then my soon-to-be boyfriend rushed TKE and they hung out with lots of Phi Mus. Then we started dating. Then I met the Phi Mus. That was all the greek I needed to know! (Although I did my research on everything before joining). Rushed my junior year (finally!)

[RaggedyAnn]

I worked at McDonald's with a Sigma Kappa brother one summer. He had a tattoo of his letters. I asked him what EK stood for. After getting the lecture about the Greek alphabet, he told me all about Greek life. I wasn't necessarily convinced I was going Greek, but having the option was one of my criteria for choosing a school. Sophomore year I decided to rush, and boy am I glad I did!

[AlphaFrog]

RaggedyAnn - I'm kinda thinking you mean Kappa Sigma, not Sigma Kappa.