You know you are a sorority member when . . .

[Alumiyum]

I think snapping was before that because according to Chi Os on my campus they've (their chapter, which was on campus in the 70s) always snapped...they're the only ones, so it's memorable because during times like recruitment and greek week when girls got a little catty that was the most popular way to make fun. (All in good fun fun, I promise).

My chapter is really into Brown Eyed Squirrel (Brown Eyed Girl) so I have at many times found myself singing "squirrel" instead of "girl" and doing motions all by myself (or just involuntarily squealing when I hear it) while the people around me obviously begin to wonder if I'm nuts. Ha! Nuts!

[carnation]

We snapped in the early seventies.

[BraveMaroon]

I still hide my drink behind my back in photos. Even if it's not alcohol.

I'm 36.

Oh, and as far as I know, only the GPhiBs at UGA snapped back in my day.

[AOEforme]

Originally Posted by BraveMaroon

I still hide my drink behind my back in photos. Even if it's not alcohol.

I'm 36.

Oh, and as far as I know, only the GPhiBs at UGA snapped back in my day.

Ditto!

As for snapping, pretty much every chapter on our campus snapped. I remember my first meeting as a Panhellenic Delegate and we snapped. I remember thinking, "Wait... we aren't the only ones who do it?". National Convention is also fun, with a ballroom full of women snapping away!

I also do the sorority pose in every picture, enough so that my non-greek friends make fun of me. (All the sorority women I am friends with are equally guilty.) In all our recent family pictures, my sister and I are there in the front, doing the sorority squat. My mom finds it endearing.

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......... when you still color-code everything.
......... you still have theme parties as an alumna.
........ your non-Greek friends always pick you to organize events.

My first week of medical school I organized a mock anatomy practical for our class. At least twenty people asked me afterwards if I had been a president of a sorority in undergraduate.

[carnation]

You're a sorority member when...

You don't know or have forgotten the original words to the campfire song "Today", only your sorority words. Somewhere on GC we shared them years ago.

"The arrow, the angel, the wine and the blue, the friendships, the laughter, the good times we knew.."

Supplied by my Chi O daughter standing here, "The owl, the carnation, the cardinal and straw.."

[lovespink88]

Originally Posted by Alumiyum

My chapter is really into Brown Eyed Squirrel (Brown Eyed Girl) so I have at many times found myself singing "squirrel" instead of "girl" and doing motions all by myself (or just involuntarily squealing when I hear it) while the people around me obviously begin to wonder if I'm nuts. Ha! Nuts!

HAHA! I totally do with popular songs that we've used for recruitment. We used "Sexy Bitch" one year, but changed the words to "HEY! Be an Alpha Xi, an A-XI-D!" (we shouted over "sexy bitch" really loud, I swear!)

I can also never hear "Welcome to the Jungle" again without turning it to "Welcome to the Xi House".

[Alumiyum]

Originally Posted by lovespink88

HAHA! I totally do with popular songs that we've used for recruitment. We used "Sexy Bitch" one year, but changed the words to "HEY! Be an Alpha Xi, an A-XI-D!" (we shouted over "sexy bitch" really loud, I swear!)

I can also never hear "Welcome to the Jungle" again without turning it to "Welcome to the Xi House".

Haha...yeah the only time I helped with a Lip Jam skit was my freshman year and Def Leppard still makes me cringe with embarassment. So there's that and Brown Eyed Squirrel...plus I Want You to Want Me bcause that's our Chi O chapter's song and any time either of our songs was played at a party the other of us made sure the other ours was, too. I heard it almost as much as Brown Eyed Girl.

Originally Posted by BraveMaroon

I still hide my drink behind my back in photos. Even if it's not alcohol.

I'm 36.

Oh, and as far as I know, only the GPhiBs at UGA snapped back in my day.

I forgot about that...I hide wine glasses/beer bottles/etc. and Solo cups still. Which is good I guess since my FB will be almost totally alcohol free when I apply for a real job. But when I'm not at a party with Greeks I do get weird looks for that.

I also forgot that I'm extremely attuned towards anything red/buff/green...my mom laughs at me when we go shopping because anything with that color combination might as well be jumping straight into my face. Squirrels, too. And sometimes bronze, pink, and blue since one of my best friends/old roomates is a DG. I kept finding anchors and bpb items for her when she lived with me.