Life in A Sorority House

[XOMichelle]

Do you want naked pillowfights Russ?

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by XOMichelle
Do you want naked pillowfights Russ?

Sure. Why not.

[ISUKappa]

I forgot to add: We had a variety of room arrangements from 4-mans to 2-mans. Very rarely did anyone get a single. The President usually had 1 roommate and had her own bathroom, otherwise there was 1 bathroom per floor, with 2 bathrooms on the 3rd floor. Including the basement, our house had 4 floors.

[CASIGKAP]

Thanks so much guys! This has really helped me. We can have up to 15 girls living in our house at the same time and no one has their own room except the President unless she is willing to room with someone in her HUGE room thus allowing 16 women there. The rooms are 2 girls per room allowing her some space.

My next question then would be, are you randomly assigned roomies or do you have some say in it? I'd ask my girls but they are all on sprink break and I don't want to interrupt vacation for this.

Thanks!

[honeychile]

We chose roomies. We had a seniority system, and those with the most time lived in the Suite and credits got to pick the rooms first. If your potential roomie had good seniority, you got the best rooms.

[bruinaphi]

Our roommate and room assignments were based on a point system. We filled out a sheet 7th week for the next quarter and wrote three - five peope we wanted to live with and one person we absolutely could not live with. We also wrote our room preferences, whether we needed space in the computer room and whether we wanted driveway parking (we only have 6 parking spots and one goes to the President, one to the House Manager and the other four go to the four highest point holders who want parking).

Having a lot of points was awesome!

[Sister Havana]

Almost all the houses at IU have sleeping porches (or warm dorms/cold dorms as we called them). The only ones without them (that I knew for sure) were AEPhi, ZTA, DZ, and Chi Omega. I think the new AOPi house doesn't have them either. There were a couple houses (AXiD and Tri-Delta) which had them but there were also beds in the rooms...so you could choose where to sleep. Delta Gamma has one bed per room, I think, and a couple singles, and everyone else is in one of the sleeping dorms.

All the houses have houseparents and cooks and stuff too.

[FAB*SpiceySpice]

Well, I always thought when I was younger that living in a sorority house would be like a big fun sleepover 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Yeah I learned REAL quick, like two days after moving into the house, that it is not at all. Right after we moved in for work week my sophomore year I lived in a 4 man room and I got in a huge fight with a roommate so I moved up to the 4th floor with my best friend at the time. Unfortunately living together just drove us apart and she ended up dropping the house.

We have to switch rooms every semester and it's a pain in the ass. I live over 5 hours away from my home so moving isn't an easy thing for me.

And with a house that holds over 90 women that's a LOT of hormones flying around, attitudes to deal with, NOISE, among a thousand other things.

Our house mom is the devil, but luckily she'll be gone after this year. Our food SUCKS, but we always have salad so I can somewhat make do.

My closet is smaller than anything I've ever seen and my bed is as hard as a rock. It's hard to sleep some nights because we're surrounded on all sides by fraternity houses and they all, especially the Sig Eps, love to scream, play loud music, and light fireworks well into the early hours of the morning.

It's always too hot or too cold, we have a house dog who is a biting monster, and a basement that looks like a torture chamber. And then there are those washers that don't wash and the dryers that don't really dry.

But even after ALL of this, I wouldn't trade the two years I've lived here for ANYTHING. Because while it was not what I expected AT ALL, I have learned SO much and I have grown immensely in the last two years and this place really DOES feel like my own home. And there have been those nights when we DO stay up all night and giggle or gossip or just sit and do nothing while painting our nails and those are the things that make it all worth it. Having my best friends around here all the time gets crazy, but it's awesome at the same time.

Whether I come running home crying hysterically over a boy or jumping for joy b/c I aced a test there is ALWAYS someone around the house there to comfort me or share in my happiness and that rocks.

So enjoy your time living in the house, it'll go by fast so make every minute worth it. AND HAVE FUN, that's the most important thing. It will not ever seem so bad if you just remember that the little things shouldn't bother you. Good luck and have fun!

And that's the end of my novel.

[SigPhiSunshine]

we are getting a new house this fall and it is a nice sized house for the size of our sorority. we dont want more than 30 girls and not every girl is going to want to live in a house so we got a house with 7 bedrooms, 3 kitchens and 3 living rooms. on the main floor there are 3 bedrooms , on is huge and could room 4 girls if needed and the other 2 are perfect for 2 or 3 girls. the main floor also has a huge living room which will be our chapter room and the upstairs and downstairs have smaller kitchens and living rooms.

and the best part about the house....directly across the street from our favorite fraternity!

[TriDeltaGal]

Originally posted by FAB*SpiceySpice
But even after ALL of this, I wouldn't trade the two years I've lived here for ANYTHING. Because while it was not what I expected AT ALL, I have learned SO much and I have grown immensely in the last two years and this place really DOES feel like my own home. And there have been those nights when we DO stay up all night and giggle or gossip or just sit and do nothing while painting our nails and those are the things that make it all worth it. Having my best friends around here all the time gets crazy, but it's awesome at the same time.

Whether I come running home crying hysterically over a boy or jumping for joy b/c I aced a test there is ALWAYS someone around the house there to comfort me or share in my happiness and that rocks.

So enjoy your time living in the house, it'll go by fast so make every minute worth it. AND HAVE FUN, that's the most important thing. It will not ever seem so bad if you just remember that the little things shouldn't bother you. Good luck and have fun!

Ahh... your post wanted to make me cry... I really miss leaving in the house. It's the little things I miss...watching "Friends" with 30 girls, ordering a pizza at 2:00 in the morning while pulling an all-nighter with sisters, having 60 closets to borrow clothes, and all those little memories really are the epitome of sisterhood...

[AOcutiePi4ever]

Originally posted by ISUKappa
I forgot to add: We had a variety of room arrangements from 4-mans to 2-mans. Very rarely did anyone get a single. The President usually had 1 roommate and had her own bathroom, otherwise there was 1 bathroom per floor, with 2 bathrooms on the 3rd floor. Including the basement, our house had 4 floors.

you mean 4-women to 2-women?

[AOcutiePi4ever]

what the hecks a sleeping porch???

[AGDee]

This thread goes into detail about what a sleeping porch is and it's history.cold air sleeping porches

Dee

[ISUKappa]

Originally posted by AOcutiePi4ever
you mean 4-women to 2-women?

I know! Old habits die hard. And I can guarantee you that's what they still call them!

[FSUZeta]

as one of our panhellenic sisters said earlier, you have the rest of your life to live in an apartment, but a limited time to live in a sorority house. on the whole a wonderful experience!!