Pledging as a 5th year senior....(serious replies only)

[nella5]

I'm a senior (4th year) who wanted to pledge AKA but my grades weren't right. I'll be a 5th year senior next year and I wanted to know how this sorority feels about letting girls in as 5th year senior, or if they even do it at all. I'm not dumb by a long shot....I was in the top 10 out of 300 people in high school when I graduated. It's just when I got to college I didn't apply myself as much as I should have. I've learned my lesson and am making the grades now. We all know that gpa's are hard to bring up after they've gone down so even with good grades right now I'm right at the C+ mark. So I'd also like to know how much does gpa play in? I take full responsibility for the grades I've made. I know there is no one to blame but me, but I'd still like to know.

I have wonderful character, I love helping people so I know a sorority all about service is the sorority for me. I also volunteer with one of the local girl scout troops in my hometown. I come from a long line of women who've become AKA's and they are great women who have gone to become doctors, social workers, managers at big companies, presidents of organizations, and many other things. They are great women and they have molded me into a great woman.

My dream to become an AKA is embedded so deeply in me. So please, can someone tell me what they think about my situation? Should I give up on this dream of becoming an AKA, or keep fighting for it?

Thanks in advance.

[AOII Angel]

Go to the AKA forum and read.

[Drolefille]

No one ever asks for sarcastic replies only. Alas, we end up with no choice but to insert them where they're not welcome.

Also who says that they have wonderful character? That's just a weird way to talk about one's self.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Also who says that they have wonderful character? That's just a weird way to talk about one's self.

Too much exposure to this campaign, perhaps.

[nella5]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

No one ever asks for sarcastic replies only. Alas, we end up with no choice but to insert them where they're not welcome.

Also who says that they have wonderful character? That's just a weird way to talk about one's self.

Drolefille: I can say I have good character. It's a fact. If you can't say anything good about myself, how can I expect any one else too. Your sarcasm neither helped nor hurt me so your comment was pretty useless. And if you're judging such a small part of my post, maybe your character isn't all that great..am I being sarcastic??? Maybe. Good day.

[preciousjeni]

Originally Posted by nella5

Drolefille: I can say I have good character. It's a fact. If you can't say anything good about myself, how can I expect any one else too. Your sarcasm neither helped nor hurt me so your comment was pretty useless. And if you're judging such a small part of my post, maybe your character isn't all that great..am I being sarcastic??? Maybe. Good day.

Real Life Tip: You can say you have good character by demonstrating it through your actions. "I believe I have strong character because..."

[nella5]

Originally Posted by preciousjeni

Real Life Tip: You can say you have good character by demonstrating it through your actions. "I believe I have strong character because..."

I don't have to prove my character to you, that's not why I'm on here.

[preciousjeni]

Originally Posted by nella5

I don't have to prove my character to you, that's not why I'm on here.

It's enough that you're proving your character to the AKAs who post on here. If only you had posted your question in the AKA forum, maybe you would have gotten the response you wanted. Or not.

[Barbie's_Rush]

Originally Posted by nella5

I don't have to prove my character to you, that's not why I'm on here.

Well, you're certainly not here to impress us with your intellectual prowess.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by nella5

Drolefille: I can say I have good character.

Sure you can.

It's a fact.

You'd need to operationalize a definition of character first. I can't speak to the accuracy of your comment.

If you can't say anything good about myself, how can I expect any one else too.

I can't say a single thing good about your grammar, so there's that.

Your sarcasm neither helped nor hurt me so your comment was pretty useless.

Yet, since it led to a really amusing thread elsewhere, it was not nearly as useless as your entire post.

And if you're judging such a small part of my post, maybe your character isn't all that great..

Again we need to operationalize the definition here. If your definition of "character" is non-sarcastic, then clearly you're superior to us lowly peons. But such a definition would speak volumes about your scientific education.

am I being sarcastic???

Oh gee whiz I hope not. That would just be terrible.

Maybe.

And passive aggressive.

Good day.

You run along now and ask the internet some more questions that a long line of women with whom you are already acquainted could have answered for you.

[agzg]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Yet, since it led to a really amusing thread elsewhere, it was not nearly as useless as your entire post.

DrPhil's responses in that thread are the best. I was dying. Live-in thought I lost my mind, so I tried to read them to him, cracked up the entire way, and he didn't get it anyway since he's not acquainted with the particular usernames that post on this particular forum.

Yours were good, too, but both he and I are not particularly fans of the My Little Pony pr0n.

[nella5]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Sure you can.

You'd need to operationalize a definition of character first. I can't speak to the accuracy of your comment.


I can't say a single thing good about your grammar, so there's that.


Yet, since it led to a really amusing thread elsewhere, it was not nearly as useless as your entire post.


Again we need to operationalize the definition here. If your definition of "character" is non-sarcastic, then clearly you're superior to us lowly peons. But such a definition would speak volumes about your scientific education.


Oh gee whiz I hope not. That would just be terrible.


And passive aggressive.

You run along now and ask the internet some more questions that a long line of women with whom you are already acquainted could have answered for you.

Well that was seriously a waste of your time. It's not because of your sarcasm that I think you have no character. It's the fact that I asked a serious question and you tried to belittle me instead of giving a serious answer. And then for you to have the time to dissect every sentence that I wrote in order to be an idiot, or to get a laugh from somebody. That, along with your complete lack of understanding, is what allows me to measure your character. So go ahead and reply to this with another immature comment so I may measure your character even more.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by nella5

Well that was seriously a waste of your time. It's not because of your sarcasm that I think you have no character. It's the fact that I asked a serious question and you tried to belittle me instead of giving a serious answer. And then for you to have the time to dissect every sentence that I wrote in order to be an idiot, or to get a laugh from somebody. That, along with your complete lack of understanding, is what allows me to measure your character. So go ahead and reply to this with another immature comment so I may measure your character even more.

We can now see why you're almost a 5th year senior who is still searching for the answer to your extremely basic question. Meanwhile, deserving women who want to be AKAs are handling their business and moving forward.

You have the attention span of a puppy that can't figure out why its excitedly evasive tail keeps running from its mouth no matter how hard it chases it.

[als463]

Originally Posted by nella5

I'm a senior (4th year) who wanted to pledge AKA but my grades weren't right. I'll be a 5th year senior next year and I wanted to know how this sorority feels about letting girls in as 5th year senior, or if they even do it at all. I'm not dumb by a long shot....I was in the top 10 out of 300 people in high school when I graduated. It's just when I got to college I didn't apply myself as much as I should have. I've learned my lesson and am making the grades now. We all know that gpa's are hard to bring up after they've gone down so even with good grades right now I'm right at the C+ mark. So I'd also like to know how much does gpa play in? I take full responsibility for the grades I've made. I know there is no one to blame but me, but I'd still like to know.

I have wonderful character, I love helping people so I know a sorority all about service is the sorority for me. I also volunteer with one of the local girl scout troops in my hometown. I come from a long line of women who've become AKA's and they are great women who have gone to become doctors, social workers, managers at big companies, presidents of organizations, and many other things. They are great women and they have molded me into a great woman.

My dream to become an AKA is embedded so deeply in me. So please, can someone tell me what they think about my situation? Should I give up on this dream of becoming an AKA, or keep fighting for it?

Thanks in advance.

Ummmm...A C+ average is only around a 2.3. That's not really that good, unless your major might be a hard science or something-especially if you are going into your 5th year.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by als463

Ummmm...A C+ average is only around a 2.3. That's not really that good, unless your major might be a hard science or something-especially if you are going into your 5th year.

Yeah, that's not good for science. Your not going anywhere in the sciences with a 2.3.