Is anyone else paying for greek life yourself? - Page 2

Barbie's_Rush · #1 05-05-2010, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by speechless10

It sucks when it seems like everyone else's parents are paying for their sorority. And it seems like the girls who aren't paying for it themselves don't really have worries of whether or not to disaffiliate because it's kind of like, "oh well... my moms paying for it so its not MY money im losing." i'm not trying to offend anyone, but im paying so much money, for tshirts, stress, and friends who are cliquish. are other sororities like this? :/

Your dues money would be better spent on a shrink.

honeychile · #2 05-05-2010, 10:05 AM

^ LOL

In my experience, there was one woman whose parents paid her dues while I was in school - she did not want to go greek, and was forced into it by her super legacy status.

As an advisor, the woman who got teased the most was the only sister whose parents paid for her dues (and everything else).

I'm sorry that you're so unhappy in your sorority, but don't use the "everybody but me" line. It's old and rarely true.

agzg · #3 05-05-2010, 10:31 AM

Seriously? So, first you feel left out because you have a boyfriend and can't slut it up.

Now, you feel left out because you pay for your own dues?

Sorry to break it to you, hon, but your priorities are seriously messed up.

txpacer · #4 05-05-2010, 12:13 PM

I pay for my sorority dues, and I know a LOT of other people who do.

tld221 · #5 05-05-2010, 12:34 PM

LMAO @ that "dey see me trollin'" pic. like, just dead.

and yeah... my mom would look at me ALL kinds of crazy if i asked her to pay my dues.

Elephant Walk · #6 05-05-2010, 12:43 PM

My parents paid for everything.

I didn't have time to get a job.

And this girls nuts. I think she just likes to complain.

honeychile · #7 05-05-2010, 01:42 PM

^My job was directly related to my then-career choice. We had a deal that, if you paid your dues up front at the beginning of the school year, you received a dangle. And, of course, the knowledge that the sorority would be solvent from the beginning of the year.

crusse10 · #8 05-05-2010, 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

My parents paid for everything.

I didn't have time to get a job.

And this girls nuts. I think she just likes to complain.

"girls...complain." Truth. haha

IrishLake · #9 05-05-2010, 02:46 PM

i paid for my dues. we had a payment plan option, and i paid it over the course of the year. i paid a little bit every month, it was jsut another bill to go along with my living expenses. i worked my butt off throwing pizza's and wiating tables and being a computer lab monitor and mucking horse stalls and babysitting and..... do you see where this is going? My parents would not pay my dues, nor did I ask them to. I didn't buy every tshirt, just the important ones (like bid day and greek week). i carried a full course load in a difficult major, worked 20+hours a week. I made it work, it was worth it.

IrishLake · #10 05-05-2010, 03:00 PM

oh.... and i had "that" boyfriend for about a year. he hated that i was greek and was convinced i was screwing every frat guy i talked to. i'm ashamed to say it took me so long to realize what a douchebag he was. the next boyfriend I married, and he was our Delta Sig sweetheart's best friend from home.

JohnnyCash · #11 05-05-2010, 03:06 PM

If you're having such a hard time paying for dues, take out student loans.

And relationships in college are the biggest waste of time ever. ESPECIALLY if you're Greek. Unless you go to college to find your future spouse, why waste your time?