What age did you begin thinking about The Greek Life?

[Coquiporvida]

Yeah, I thought about "Going Greek" my sophmore year of college. I mean of heard of sororities and fraternities, but my preconcieved notions had to be abolished for me to appreciate and understand what I was getting into!

[piphiangel314]

I'd say early to mid junior high.

My cousin was talking about how her best friend from high school went Greek, and I had no clue what she meant. I was a complete computer nerd from 4th to 8th grade, so I researched and found out what a sorority was and I haven't looked back since.

[twinkle555]

Hmm..when I watched 'Sorority Life' on MTV junior/senior yr of high school lol...

didnt rush until I was a Jr in college though

[atomicflowers]

When I was 18 during my freshman year of college...and my roommate was in a sorority so she really got me interested! I didn't pledge until I was 19, though =)

[WinniBug]

I thought about rushing when I was a freshman in college, but didn't actually go to any recruitment events until my junior year.

[socialite]

Well I actually pretty much didn't want anything to do with greek life until I came to college because my whole family is a family of pastors and pastor's wives [basically] and my whole family thought it was a whole culture of debauchery and wasted youth.
It wasn't until I came to college and my freshman year a friend of mine took me to a bunch of parties and 'Greek Week' and homecoming events and sat down and talked to me about my preconceived notions of greek life, and I figured "Hey, why the hell not at least give them a try?"

When I rushed, my parents dropped all funding they were giving me for college and still refuse to give me any money. Lo and behold, I'm doing just fine financially all on my own [with a little help from loans]... some people are just thick headed and refuse to open their minds. My dad has tryed to make me go to AA meetings and my mom sends out prayer requests to her friends for me (Mind you, this is a christian fraternity! The only fraternity with an appointed 'spiritual chair' as an officer.) pfff oh well.

[Ole Miss Phi Mu]

The summer before I started my freshman year. My roommate was going through rush and asked me to go through with her.

[socialite]

Couldn't be happier with my decision though.

[luv n tpa]

Considered it and was about 75% sure at 19 and became 100% the next semester.

[DaffyKD]

I decided in the middle of summer between HS graduation and moving to schoo at which time I was 18. I wanted nothing to do with Greek life since they were all rich, pretty, clicky snobs which were exactly what I wanted to get away from since I was so unpopular in school that I was always the brunt of their teasing. The only reason I went through rush was because the information sheet said that they would have one dorm open a week early just for rush, but you had to attend the first day parties. After that, if you dropped out of rush you could stay in the dorm (which was necessary since I lived 150 miles from the school and needed someplace to stay).

Went through the first day parties and planned to drop as soon as the day was over. Was going to go to the beach every day while all the "snobs" went through rush. Lo and behold, I really liked the first out I went to, so I decided to stay in until they dropped me (was pretty sure I would have no invites the next day). Well, here it is numerous years later, rush is now recruitment, pledges are now new members and the new member period os only 6 weeks compared to an entire semester. I am still waiting to hear that I have been dropped from rush.

DaffyKD

I'm glad to hear a lot of yall were last minute. It shows that Greek life isn't all about who you know. More so who you are.

[VandalSquirrel]

I remember being very little (maybe kindergarten age) and my grandmother explaining to me about the group the letters on an piece of mail she received. She was invited to Initiation and Feast of Roses at the nearby Alpha Gam chapter and told me about her college friends and how she had friends from her college, and friends from other colleges to. I thought (and still do) that having friends all over was a wonderful idea, and I was sold right then and there. I always knew I would go to college and joining a sorority was part of that. I was involved in Girl Scouts and thought the whole concept of friends forever and everywhere you shared something special with was the only way to go.

Also the constant readings of Beatrix Potters' Squirrel Nutkin books at bedtime didn't hurt either. I feel very blessed to have ended up my grandmother's sister even though she wasn't alive to share it all with me.

[LatinaAlumna]

^Very sweet story.

[IlovemyAKA]

I was 1st introduced to it my senior year of high school, and wanted to learn more from there

[lauralaylin]

Sophomore year on bid day. I told someone in my hall way, turned out she was in a sorority, and the rest is history.