Why did you even consider Greek life?

[Kevlar281]

In High School I wasn’t very sociable I would just go to school and come straight home to hang out and do my own thing. The only typical High School stuff I did was play Ice Hockey. One of the guys on my team had an older brother who happened to go to U of H. One night after a game he invited us out to an event party and his fraternity left a great impression on me. Since we lived in an affluent area I was so used to the High School cliques, that the experience of going to a party and feeling like you didn’t know anyone except who you came with and immediately having people come up to introduce themselves to you and introduce you around to everyone was a very welcoming experience. For the rest of my time in High School I knew I wanted to join a fraternity; I figured it would be my friends brother’s fraternity but he graduated and a lot of the people I knew had graduated as well so after I went through rush things just didn’t feel the same so I ended up somewhere else. Even though I didn’t go with XYZ; I still have a lot of respect for them since it was their great first impression that peaked my interest in fraternity life.

[enlightenment06]

I saw in Alpha Phi Alpha another avenue through which I could work to uplift the Black community while meeting my own needs for positive Black male role models.

[IrresistibleDG]

I decided to join after my freshman year. I had already gone a year to see if there was something else i would like to do but my best friend and roommate at the time decided that she was going to go back home and not stay at UCF. also a lot of my friends went to Fullsail and were graduating so i figured going through rush would be a good way to meet people. Then i found a home at DG.

[Aprylel21]

I actually decided to go through recruitment thinking that this was a good way to meet people(which it is) and I decided beforehand that I wasn't going to join. Lo and behold, I found Sigma unexpectedly. I was invited to all three prefs but Sigma's pref really touched me and I cried half the time. I couldn't understand it at the time, but now I do. Joining was one of the best decisions I ever made!

[crystalline]

I wasn't at all interested in Greek life. I thought most Greeks were stuck up snobs, and I wanted nothing to do with that. Then I found out a girl I worked with was going to a rush party for a newly started sorority. I went along and met the girls, and was very impressed with them and felt like I could belong with them. Needless to say, they felt I belonged with them, since they are now my sisters

[knight_shadow]

as corny as this sounds, i first became interested after seeing greeks on tv and movies (i.e. scream 2, roadtrip, etc - keep in mind i was in middle/high school, so i didn't know that there was more to them then the partying ). however, during high school, i took a trip to the university of michigan and saw a lot of greeks up there and heard of them doing good things around campus, so i became very interested. once i got to college (UTexas-arlington), i found the group that i most clicked with, and i've been happy with my choice so far!

[KSigkid]

I knew people who had gone Greek at other schools, and when I came to BU i met a few people in the Greek system, including a freshman student advisor who really pushed me on to do it.

I met a few of the Kappa Sig guys, decided it was the right chapter for me, and ended up pledging.

[FAUNikki]

During my freshman year I had a very negative view of sororities and fraternities. I head not experienced anything that was part of the greek system and so I saw a bunch of people looking for an excuse to party. Plus I was doing a double major and had no time for extra stuff.
During the second semester of my Sophmore year I met a wonderful girl and she told me about her sorority. My double major program was cancelled so I had free time. I came out to see what they were about. They were all wonderful and I received a bid about a week later.
Needless to say the wonderful girl is now my big, ehhm I mean "Sapphire" Sister.

[Nhfulmer]

I went through rush as a freshman at Bama in 1960 - OK, so I'm old! The question had never been whether I'd go through rush but which group I would pledge. I had grown up in Tuscaloosa but had moved away my junior year in high school but I certainly knew about Greeks from having grown up there and I knew I wanted to be a part of that! Since then, of course, I have realized that I was joining something much larger than I had thought. I've been active in alumnae groups (starting one!) almost since I graduated. Most of my best friends are sisters from many different chapters.

Also, I was an only child and I was looking for those sisters I never had.

One of the best things I ever did!!

[uwgirl]

Basically, I was just curious about what it was like to be in a sorority. I really liked the idea of meeting so many girls and the many opportunities being greek provided you! Plus, I wanted to be able to wear letters with pride and no one from back home would've ever expected me to join a sorority. It was a great way for me to get invovled at college since I was pretty active in high school. Joining Chi-O has definitely been one of the best decisions I've made and I love talking to other girls, encouraging them to go greek and be able to tell them what greek life is really like (compared to sorority life or other stereotypes)!

[sugar and spice]

Originally posted by sairose
Does anyone remember back in I think 1997 or 1998, Seventeen magazine did an article all about sorority rush? It featured the Sigma Kappas at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I read that back in high school, and I had *heard* of sororities, but never knew what they actually were or what they did. This article made me decide I wanted to join one. It was a really great article, very well written and really displaced sororities and Sigma Kappa in a positive light.

This article wasn't the main reason I rushed, but it was pretty influential in making me wonder if maybe there wasn't "something more" to Greek life than what it was portrayed as in most media. I thought the article made it look really fun and interesting.

The biggest thing that made me want to rush was a camp counselor I had in early high school. She was in a sorority (to this day I still don't know which one) and she was the nicest, sweetest, most down-to-earth girl I'd ever met. I thought that if she was in a sorority, there MUST be more to them than slutty drunk girls, and so I decided to rush. I'm so glad I did.

[Tom Earp]

Damn, NUfulmer, that makes YA---!

I too know that age!

I was always part of something in HS. Just seemed normal in College but did it back asswards!