good friends in other GLOs??

[breathesgelatin]

Because my school is so Greek it's impossible NOT to have friends in other sororities... I have lots of independent friends, too. I have *many* Chi-O friends and several good Theta friends too.

[ilovetheviolets]

So i need to post my story here....

Freshman year when I pledged I became very close with a lot of the girls i went through recruitment with, some had been aquaintances beforehand, some who i just met, and some girls were even on my hall. Since there are only 2 sororities we got split up. I ended up pledging w/ some girls i knew beforehand while a majority went to chi omega. When it came time to pick rooms for the next year, due to my lotto number, i ended up being the odd one out when everyone divided up for suites. So i found a girl who i had become close with, who was pledging XO at the time, and lived with her. Through her I met Jenny. Jenny and I since then have become the best of friends, we are inseperable at times, and manage to leave the sorority stuff out of everything. I also love Nancy who is another XO who, together we have come to the conclusion that simply being greek makes us sisters (esp. on a campus where greeks are sometime stigmatized, a dying breed...haha), we support eachother in everything, they even congratulate me on good recruitment events, etc... Life got better this year when XO moved their "house" next door to the <sum><sum><sum> house (where I live), so now jenny and nancy are just a fire escape away. I can't imagine my life without the two of them, and all my other incredible XO friends, almost as much as I can't imagine my life without my sigma sisters.

[Kristin AGD]

I had to rush at UNT as a sophmore due to a last minute change in schools my freshman year. My rush group was comprised of mostly sophmores, and most of us lived in the same apartment complex. As we went through rush we became really close. Mostly because of the stress . They supported me when they found out how clueless I was about rushing, specifically recs. After rush (I did not receive a bid, and there was no COB) we still stayed close even though no two went to the same org. We had a KKG, Pi Phi, DZ & XO. It was a great group. We went to fraternity parties together, ate lunch, went shopping. I am so grateful they were such great girls. I couldn't regret going through rush, I made really great friends in the process.

[AOTTAdvisor]

When I was in college, there were a bunch of us from all different sororities at Elon that were very close(AOTT, AZD and Sigma Kappa). I always liked being friends with people in different groups because it meant your social circle was bigger and you had more opportunities for fun!
Now that I am out of college, I live with a Chi O from another school and I am friends with a lot of her Chi O friends and from being the AOTT advisor, I have gotten to be close with a lot of the other advisor for the different groups at GSU(lonnnggg hours doing bid matching will do that to you). I really do feel(and yes, I am a cheese ball!) that no matter the letter, we are all greek together!

[rayray]

YAY!!!!

I'm so glad that you all have shared your stories. I hope you loved reading them as much as i did! Its funny how things work out and things fall into place.

YAY FOR BEING GREEK!!!!

[adpialumcsuc]

These stories are so wonderful to hear.
My freshman room-mate tried to get me to rush and I just wasn't interested. After seeing how much fun she was having and all the friends that she had I decided that I would rush my sophmore year. I changed schools and ended up accepting a bid from a different ADPi instead of AGD. I know she was disappointed but we still remained the best of friends and when she came to visit me she also went to visit her sisters in the AGD house.

[BirthaBlue4]

One of my best friends is a Delta Sigma Theta, she crossed before me, and I got a view of greek life from her. My other best friend is an Alpha Phi Alpha.

[gphiangel624]

I love these stories, so I figured I'd share mine...

By the way, I don't know why I was never Panhellenic Delegate... was nominated for it, but seriously, after reading this, you might wonder, too.

My first 2 years at UCR, there was always this "connection" between the Gamma Phis and Kappas. Come to find out, it's been like that pretty much since the dawn of sorority time at UCR (1975ish). So I had some Kappa friends, and we'd go out occasionally or hang out at parties (even though I thought they hated me at first... but they continually invited me back during rush... oh well- still love them). There was this one Kappa, Courtney, who I thought was so gorgeous, and I thought "she must be the biggest b*tch," mainly because she was dating an ATO who (I still maintain) looks like Paul Walker. Well, come to find out, my junior year, my boyfriend at the time ended up going with her and bunch of people to celebrate her 21st. I didn't know her, but I trusted him and told him to go (I was the only one who was underage and busy that night anyways). So they go, they have fun, etc. She talks to me the next day in Commons because she thought I'd be upset for some reason that she had hung out with my boyfriend. She was SO NICE TO ME!

So we all start hanging out in our big group of friends... she's over at my boyfriend's apt. all the time, we go to parties and dinner together, and then she up and graduates and moves back to NorCal... I was so sad because I thought this great girl that I started to have the most fun with was going to never talk to me again. Wrong, as usual. She and I would talk almost daily. My boyfriend and I went to visit her shortly after that and we've become best friends. I could not live without having her in my life!

Now for the Panhellenic part of me... my group of friends at the BI (club in the 909): me, a bunch of Delts, a bunch of ATOs, a bunch of baseball players (a fraternity in itself), a bunch of Gamma Phis, a bunch of Kappas, a bunch of Alpha Chis, occasionally a few Pi Phis... it's like Greekfest...

One of my best friends from high school is ADPi at another school... her other good friends are Alpha Phis and Alpha Chis (they call themselves "Alpha sisters")

People I used to work with and hang out with on a regular basis are Kappas, Pi Phis, Alpha Chis, DGs, Sigma Kappas, etc... It's really odd... but I love how there's no drama with it.

[sigtau305]

I have a good friend of mine who is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha. He's the one who got me going on the idea of going greek.

I never really had contact with guys in other GLO's outside of working on IFC JBoard with them.

After this past summer, i can tell you that one of the greatest guys i know and probably one of the best friends i've had is a LXA.

I think y'all all know who i'm talking about.

But seriously, the more we hung out, the more i realized how we felt the same way about a lot of things and were really similar minded guys. (except that he's a manwhore )

Anyway, he's one of the best fraternity men i know and i'm proud to call him my friend.

Kitso
KS 361 Texas Music CD's i'm gonna have to hide, because listening to them makes my homesick.

[Buttonz]

One of my really good friends a year above me in school was pledging SDT and then dropped becauseshe couldn't handle it with school work (at a diffrent school). I didn't know what GLO it was until I told her who I was pledging she went nuts! We came thisclose to beinging sisters!...When I went to some of ht AEPhi rush eventsI became close to one girl who got a bid from them and even though weare in diffrent GLO's we remain friends. One of my ex-pledge sisters from a local on campusI remain friendly with also

[polarpi]

Okay, so here's a long story, but the background is needed to understand how I wound up where I am....

My freshman year, I talked myself out of participating in Formal Recruitment. One of my best friends decided to go through recruitment, and went Kappa Delta. Within the next week, another of my friends was COR'ed into KD, and was initiated the same time as my first friend. The second friend was my roommate for sophomore year, and I was really excited for her.

The beginning of sophomore year, my roommate invited a number of the girls that lived on our floor freshman year to our room for a "reunion". Little did I know that her sisters were coming over to extend bids to our four friends (myself excluded). I felt a little uncomfortable, even though I love the KD's, but it did help me to decide to go through formal recruitment that spring.

When recruitment came along, I was gung-ho about going KD (I really knew nothing about going through recruitment and about the other sororities). I was going through the rounds, going back to the chapters that invited me back (I never had to make the grueling decision of cutting a chapter), until Theme Night. I had an exam for getting into the education program at our university, and when I registered, I didn't know it was being held at our university (the booklet said that it wasn't on that date), so I signed up to take the exam at a university that was a three hour drive away (and in a different time zone). I wrote a note to the chapters explaining why I wasn't going to be there for that night, and drove off to go to my exam (I was staying the night with my aunt and uncle who lived 5 minutes from the campus).

When I arrived back at my university the next day, I found out that KD had cut me from preference night and I was left with only two choices for preference night. I was stunned and upset, but I composed myself and went to the preference parties anyways. I found my "home" that night in ADPi, and I've never regretted it since!

At our university, the KD's and ADPi's shared a floor in the sorority dorm, so the two chapters got along really well! And also, throughout the other years I was there, I became friends with women in each of the chapters we had (we had a total of 7 chapters on campus), and my friendships with them have allowed the greatest of respect for their organizations to grow within me. I'm so glad that I do have friends in other GLO's....you learn so much more about Greek Life in general!

[AXWhoah]

GPhiAngel...I know a couple of the UCR Alpha Chi's and they are such great women, no wonder you hang out with them. (Special shout out to Lauren if she reads this!)

[Optimist Prime]

there needs to be more sorority girls

[Peaches-n-Cream]

When I was in college, my freshman roommate and I decided to rush. She pledged Alpha Phi and I DPhiE. We were still very good friends and we became friends with each other's sisters. One of my pledge sisters lived on a floor with a lot of Phi Sigs and we remained friends for all four years. I got involved with IGC as a sophomore and junior and became friendly with an AXiD and an SDT.

In terms of fraternities, I was very close with a few AEPis. I was also friendly with Pi Lams, Betas, Sig Eps, Kappa Alpha Psi, and a local fraternity.