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Originally posted by Munchkin03
Let me refine my statement:
"If you're in a traditional professional degree program, and are required to fill certain requirements for Architecture, Law, Urban Planning, or Business, maybe going through recruitment (not alumnae inititation--which is, as I remember, completely different from rush) isn't the best thing for you. Many of those programs have 18-19 semester credit requirements. Especially in the first year, it might be best if you focus on your academics."
I was--and still am!--an excellent time manager, it's just that sorority life was very low on my priorities. Since my parents and I were paying over $50,000 a year for me to get this degree in architecture, and the work was very intense, sorority stuff could wait. It wasn't a "massive imposition," I just had to have my priorities straight during the first year.
My statement still stands---it doesn't seem as if your program was that intense. My sister, who is in graduate school, has classes that go around her work schedule and therefore has more time to be active in her sorority. There are simply some programs you can't do that for--and that's why I qualified my statement.
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That may be true for you and if that's how you feel about YOUR program then that's the way you feel. Blanket statements about the rigor of someone's program aren't cool. I too was a graduate student when I went through recruitment and I survived just fine. As a matter of fact I had (still have) a husband, a full time job and managed to survive recuritment. I was in a professional program (Master of Public Administration) which required MOUNTAINS of reading (journal after journal after journal) and papers every week in each of my classes. So you can't just go around INSULTING the rigor of someone's program.
As you said sorority wasn't a priority of YOURS; therefore, YOU didn't make time for it. Others decided to make Greek life a priority.
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