Looking back, were you right?

epchick · #1 12-10-2007, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by DGMarie

I have often wondered when reading recent recruitment stories if the advantage of a time has validated, or invalidated, your initial impressions of sororities you may have rushed. Given the very, very short time you have to form an impression of a group, often from one or two people you met at a party, it seems that over the course of a year or so of interacting with those groups on campus your opinion might have changed.

Did your first impressions ring true?

I think there will always be members that live up to the stereotype, but I have learned that the impressions I had have not rung true.

twinkle555 · #2 12-10-2007, 08:05 PM

I was a junior when I went through, but I hadnt really heard anything about Greek Life. Not until the semester before I went through did I start to think I would fit in certain chapters. Neither of them were AOII. Probably b/c I didnt know anything about AOII, but now I think that I fit in with my other sisters very well.

violetpretty · #3 12-10-2007, 08:16 PM

Some of the stereotypes I had heard before recruitment were just based on dumb nicknames that could be made with a chapter's letters. Of course, this was from my dumb [male] friend, so I didn't really pay too much attention.

However, I definitely got some distinct first impressions. At one chapter I visited, the members I talked to seemed completely braindead. Looking back, I think it was probably because they were poorly prepared for recruitment (i.e. not knowing what to say and not to say), plus, they probably said dumb things out of being nervous (I know I have!).

I definitely know that I ended up in the best chapter for me. However, out of 14 chapters at my alma mater, I still think that I would have fit in very well in 3 others besides Sigma Kappa. I think that where I was invited to preference (with the exception of one chapter) was pretty much where I would fit. I think that the members know better than the PNMs who fits where. Also, I am still very close with my SK family and sometimes I wonder who would be in my family and who my closest friends would have been if I joined a different chapter.