Living-in vs Living-out

[agzg]

I lived in the house my Junior year. Actually, I lived in dorms Freshman year (as all Gannon's on-campus-living freshmen), an on-campus apartment my Sophomore year, in the sorority house my Junior year (there was only enough room for the exec board + New Member Coordinator - it was fun but I think it might have been more fun had we had enough room for more members), and then in an off-campus apartment with two of the other three girls that had lived on the same floor of the house with me.

One major con to living in the sorority house is that any drama that happens at chapter (not held in the house, because we didn't have the space) follows you home. Ugh, there were so many late and tense Sunday nights!

[33girl]

I also lived in dorms my first two years and in the sorority house the last 2 years. However, our houses were really not much different than other off-campus housing except they were larger and everyone living in them was Greek. That is, we didn't have housemothers, cooks, maids, institutional anything - it was just like living in a big communal house. We were responsible for our own meals and cleaning. Shacking happened all the time. I don't think I would have liked the "dorm-type" style of sorority house living at all. Like a & a said, you get out of college and never really took care of yourself.

If you live in any type of Greek living, you need to have a "hideaway" at a friend's apartment or someplace else nearby where you can hide when the drama gets too intense. If you don't have one you'll go crazy. Then again, this could probably apply to any large group living together. I wouldn't trade it for the world though.