Time Commitment Worries

[UGAalum94]

I think it's very much that you get out of it what you put in to it.

The required stuff doesn't take that much time, especially once you are initiated (which will cover basically all the time other than the first semester), but the people who get the most out of their GLOs are the people who make it their number one activity or who live in the house.

I'll second the person who pointed out that you don't have to decide before recruitment, but remember that recruitment at some schools is even more intense that regular membership would be. (The only time that I as an out-of-house sister regularly spent 12+ hour days at the house was during recruitment.)

It'd be a perfectly appropriate recruitment question but think carefully about how you phrase it. You want to make sure you communicate that you do want to be involved.

Maybe you ask your rushers, tell me about a week in the life of an XYZ new member? (that sounds cheesy but you get the idea, I think.)

[WaterChild]

Thanks for the responses. The main reason that I'm concerned is that if I do it, I want to do it all the way. It's really important to me that I give my all in most everything that I do. It helps to hear some numbers (whether they're accurate or not) because my brain just works that way. I'm still not sure if I will have enough time for everything that I want to do, however. I'm planning on being a major, which I've heard is a pretty time consuming major. Greek life is something that I think would be really great, so I think that I would choose that over being a member of multiple clubs or something like that. I think I'm going to go through with recruitment and make my mind up from there. Thanks again.

[AlphaFrog]

I was a music major. My biggest time commitments for music were Marching Band (about 15-20 hours a week), Opera workshop (7 hours a week), University Singers (7 hours a week, plus practice time), and practicing for applied lessons (vocal, in my case), as well as various tech classes (piano, brass, strings, etc). Yes, obviously, I had a ton of overlapping, and had to plan things out very carefully. It can be done. Actually, my 2 biggest conflicts between music and sorority were marching band practice that overlapped with rush and chapter that overlapped with a required class one semester.