Living In the Sorority House

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by AOIIalum

Same with me. To this day I wish I could have had that experience and loved visiting chapters where I could stay "in the house". Dee, maybe we should find a campus where you could be an AOII house mom and I could be one for AGD?

That is a grand idea

[ree-Xi]

Just adding my two cents, living in the house is something that not everyone who is Greek gets to experience, whether it's due to lack of housing, too much interest not enough beds, etc., let alone people who don't go Greek. I suggest trying it for a year, because with a few exceptions, people I know who lived in-house said that it was an amazing experience.

[BAckbOwlsgIrl]

College life is about experiences.
I believe that everyone should live in house for at least one year.

Sorry to be Debi Downer. However, let's not sugar coat it. Living in the house is not rainbows and roses.

Yes, you will get to be closer to your sisters and everything is there for you.

There are down sides to it.

• Privacy - sometimes I just wanted to watch TV alone or crawl in bed without feeling like everyone was watching me.
• When one girl gets sick on the sleeping porch everyone gets sick. I don't care if make them sleep on the day bed in the room, everyone gets sick.
• SNORING - Despite the sleeping porch being quiet, some girls snore. And you WILL hear them. One girl talked in her sleep.
• DRAMA - Everything goes on there; the good, the bad and everything in between. It can be a bit much at times. Find a way to get of there. Go to a friends.
• GUYS - Everyone has different rules on them. Back in the day, they were not allowed upstairs or only on move in and move out days. Some have visitation hours. I had several guy friends and it was weird to have them sit in the formal foyer.
• DISTRACTIONS - I found that I studied best away from the house. It was too easy for me to go hang out with my sisters. My favorite was the Med School library; 24 hours and quiet.
• ALCOHOL - Don't even think about bringing it in the house even if you are 21. Fraternity guys can get away with it but not sorority women. Some people have problem with this.

When I was there, our kitchen was closed on the weekend. No kitchenettes on the floors like there is now. We went out for food on the weekend.

For me, I always thought it was odd walking down stairs from my bed to my room to get my clothes and get ready.

However, to this day, I can't not sleep in the same place that I studied. I only sleep and dress in my room. I think that I got that from living in the house.

[arrowlady]

Yes, Yes, Yes live in the house if you get the opportunity. While lack of privacy is a little bit of an issue, there is nothing better then living with your sisters! Getting ready for mixers and dates in the house are some great memories for me!

[AlphaFrog]

On my campus it was pretty standard for pledges to "live" in the house during I-week. In fact, one group told their pledges to keep their bags packed starting around week 5 of pledging because they never knew when a sister would show up to get them for the start of I-week. Yes, that's probably hazing - I think that would have been fun.

Anyway, that week gave you a pretty good idea (worst-case scenario even since there were extra people) of what living in the house was like. I moved in for I-week, out for the last two weeks of the Fall semester, then right back in for Spring semester that same year. Best part if my college experience. Nothing like putting your key into the lock of a beautiful mansion and knowing it's your home, and that there would be someone awesome to hang out with.

[AGDAlum]

I'll play the Old Lady card and say that in my day -- when chapters were smaller overall (quota 35, self-determined total, house capacity average 70) -- sophomores, juniors, and seniors HAD to live in the house unless they were town girls (=living with their parents). I was able to move in the second semester of my first year and lived in the house August-May thereafter. That was my address, my home, my paradigm of college residence. (And it beat the heck out of the dorm.)