You know you are a sorority member when . . .

[Alumiyum]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

OMG! I completely forgot about the Ditto hand sign! We did that too when we needed to be more quiet. Glad to know other people do this, too!

...you do a double take when you see an item in a store with a sorority symbol/mascot/color or anything that may look vaguely like your symbol/mascot just to be sure you don't NEED more sorority swag. I still do this 18 years later! Half the time, the black and white animal that catches my eye is just a cow.

When my first Greek cousin got into AOII my mom and I decided that the panda is the second hardest mascot to buy aside from the squirrel. It was so hard to find her panda presents.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by Alumiyum

When my first Greek cousin got into AOII my mom and I decided that the panda is the second hardest mascot to buy aside from the squirrel. It was so hard to find her panda presents.

You get good at finding them after a while. There a little more prevalent now, but after my first semester, there was a whole line of figurines, snow globes, mugs, etc. that my mom found. She stocked up for Christmas. My sister and I had so many panda items in our room that we were the AOII showroom for dorm tours. Actually, a lot of our stuff got borrowed to make other rooms look less bare.

[Alumiyum]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

You get good at finding them after a while. There a little more prevalent now, but after my first semester, there was a whole line of figurines, snow globes, mugs, etc. that my mom found. She stocked up for Christmas. My sister and I had so many panda items in our room that we were the AOII showroom for dorm tours. Actually, a lot of our stuff got borrowed to make other rooms look less bare.

I was the same way with squirrels because my dad started amusing himself by finding squirrels for every occasion...Christmas, birthday, etc. 4 years as an active gave me a super impressive creepy squirrel army. As soon as I went alum I started handing them out to actives for their sis daughters so I now have a much less disturbing number of them. Though I kept my most impressive ones. The "office weasel" (a "squirrel" that appears to in fact be a weasel that one of our advisers told us to throw out of our office/guest room before an LC came to visit so she wouldn't have nightmares...I kept it instead) and two my dad found that make real squirrel noises. Squirrel noises are HORRIBLE.

At least pandas aren't creepy haha. They're only cute.

[AGDee]

I never heard of the snapping thing until recently, here on GC. I find squirrel stuff to be pretty abundant, actually, if you look in the right places The Internet has helped a lot with that.

I concur with "When you hear a college name, you think 'we have a chapter there'".

One year, I tried to do my NCAA Basketball bracket based on where we had chapters..lol.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by Alumiyum

I was the same way with squirrels because my dad started amusing himself by finding squirrels for every occasion...Christmas, birthday, etc. 4 years as an active gave me a super impressive creepy squirrel army. As soon as I went alum I started handing them out to actives for their sis daughters so I now have a much less disturbing number of them. Though I kept my most impressive ones. The "office weasel" (a "squirrel" that appears to in fact be a weasel that one of our advisers told us to throw out of our office/guest room before an LC came to visit so she wouldn't have nightmares...I kept it instead) and two my dad found that make real squirrel noises. Squirrel noises are HORRIBLE.

At least pandas aren't creepy haha. They're only cute.

Did you ever see the squirrel army on Scrubs?

[als463]

Originally Posted by AGDee

I never heard of the snapping thing until recently, here on GC. I find squirrel stuff to be pretty abundant, actually, if you look in the right places The Internet has helped a lot with that.

I concur with "When you hear a college name, you think 'we have a chapter there'".

One year, I tried to do my NCAA Basketball bracket based on where we had chapters..lol.

I love what you said about the NCAA Basketball bracket! The truth is that during football season, when the bowl games come around, for the bowls that Penn State or Syracuse are not in-I cheer on the teams that have Phi Mu chapters! Now, if both teams have a chapter of my sorority-I feel like either college is a winner! So, I guess I do the same thing as you!

You know you're in a sorority when...You are talking to someone about something and you just happen to throw in, "My sorority sister (so-and-so) used to do that," or "One of my sorority sisters lives near there." You find yourself not meaning to but, you still throw in about your sorority sister.

[Alumiyum]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Did you ever see the squirrel army on Scrubs?

YES. Haha I loved that. Mine was almost as disturbing, even though it didn't include any taxidermied squirrels.

[IrishLake]

Originally Posted by ThetaDancer

So glad to hear I'm not the only snapper!

I did this all throughout college and continue to do it today. I doodle whenever I have to take notes or make to- do lists...and I'm still finding myself doodling kites from time to time.

I doodle kites all the dang time!


I'll add - singing your sorority specific lyrics to popular songs. We had Theta versions to several Britney songs, Brown Eyed Girl, etc. To this day if I hear certain songs, I sing our "Theta" version.

(We also did the hand-ditto!)

[Drolefille]

We are the Sigma Ks
Living One Heart One Way
Sigmas just can't be stopped
We are Sigma Kaa-pa.

To Nelly's Hot in Here

[KSUViolet06]

To this day I can't hear The Beach Boys "Surfin' USA" and not replace the lyrics with the Sigma version.

[lovespink88]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Did you ever see the squirrel army on Scrubs?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxCfxxeGhXA

I just about died the first time I saw this...the new squirrel has the same name as my fiance, haha

[xomanadaxo]

I ditto (like air quotes, but with your fingers straight and only with one hand) in class ALL the time. At National Leadership Conference a lot of KDs snapped though. Only the GPhiBs snap on our campus though.

You know you're a sorority member when...
You explain people's personalities in terms of which house they would join. (e.g. You don't know Suzy? Well she would probably be an XYZ, with the looks of ABC thrown in the mix!)

[Alumiyum]

I also forgot "Oh hot damn, this is Alpha Gam"...that song came on the radio and I forgot there were actual lyrics to it. That's all I ever sing.

[ADPiTigergurl]

...when you go to 3 different tjmaxx's looking for a lion sculpture you saw there months ago but sadly it is gone now

[crusse10]

I believe only the DGs at Tennessee snap, fwiw