How did you learn about Greek life?

[RaggedyAnn]

Ah, just looked up the school Greek life. Sigma Chi. It's been a very long time! Good catch!

[AlphaFrog]

So it would have looked like "EX" - I can imagine someone thinking "Why would someone want a tattoo of their Ex?"

[TSteven]

Originally Posted by RaggedyAnn

I worked at McDonald's with a Sigma Chi brother one summer. He had a tattoo of his letters. I asked him what EX stood for. After getting the lecture about the Greek alphabet, he told me all about Greek life. I wasn't necessarily convinced I was going Greek, but having the option was one of my criteria for choosing a school. Sophomore year I decided to rush, and boy am I glad I did!

Fixed it.

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

So it would have looked like "EX" - I can imagine someone thinking "Why would someone want a tattoo of their Ex?"

I know y'all know the difference. But that is one of my pet peeves. Regardless of how it is written, S is not an E and is one of the more commonly known letters of the Greek alphabet. As such, SC should never be abbreviated as EX. Especially by anyone that is Greek or knows the Greek alphabet. EX is Epsilon Chi.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by TSteven

Fixed it.



I know y'all know the difference. But that is one of my pet peeves. Regardless of how it is written, S is not an E and is one of the more commonly known letters of the Greek alphabet. As such, SC should never be abbreviated as EX. Especially by anyone that is Greek or knows the Greek alphabet. EX is Epsilon Chi.

"looked like"

Using the example above it "looked like" an EX to a non-Greek which Raggedy Ann was at the time

[TSteven]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

"looked like"

Using the example above it "looked like" an EX to a non-Greek which Raggedy Ann was at the time

I understand the concept of "looked like". I'm just saying it is a pet peeve when someone mistakes a S for an E. Even if they are a non-Greek and perhaps do not know any better.

RaggedyAnn - I'm pleased to hear that a Brother Sig was able to help you down the path of enlightenment and knowledge.

[catiebug]

In a way, that was how I was introduced to Greek life. My mom was in a sorority (as were my grandmother and great-grandmother - all the same one, I might add), but it was the Sigma Chi thing that got me really interested in it.

When I was a freshman in high school, my mom had a good friend who was a Sigma Chi alum. He had attended the University of Texas, and had his letters on his class ring (which he still wore). He was also active in the Texas Exes, the UT alumni association. I kept teasing him that his Greek letters were really EX, for Texas Ex (give me a break, I was 14). Needless to say, he set me straight.

When I was a bit older, I started hanging around SMU and got a taste of Greek life while still in high school.

Originally Posted by RaggedyAnn

I worked at McDonald's with a Sigma Kappa brother one summer. He had a tattoo of his letters. I asked him what EK stood for. After getting the lecture about the Greek alphabet, he told me all about Greek life. I wasn't necessarily convinced I was going Greek, but having the option was one of my criteria for choosing a school. Sophomore year I decided to rush, and boy am I glad I did!

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by honeychile

I've said this before, but literally everyone I knew who went to college was in a fraternity or a sorority. I honestly thought that anyone who wasn't in one had tried to get a bid and failed. I also had the influence of my mother, who wasn't in a sorority herself but her mother was. She did her level best to groom me for my late grandmother's sorority, showing me her pin with the reference of the Holy Grail, painting my room two shades of blue, starting me on a collection of keys. My daddy's aunts were greek, too, but I'm still not sure which one(s). He equated "campus success" with being a greek, also. My high school graduation present was a trip to Portugal - and an upgraded sorority pin, when I pledged.

I sometimes wonder how freaked out my parents would have been had I not gone greek!

I forgot to add something, until I read TStevens' post! My sixth grade teacher, born & raised in Louisiana, made us memorize the Greek alphabet backwards and forwards, since, "When y'all go to college, it's best you know it for when you pledge a fraternity or a sorority!" She was a HUGE influence on a lot of people in my school equating college with going greek.

[jon1856]

Originally Posted by bengay

This is why we're here to learn more about Greek life. My fraternity brothers and I all went to a fraternity rush. We didn't like the way they did things or the decisions they made, so we started our own. Delta Iota Kappa. At the same time we knew older glos within the IFC/NIC/NPC have a lot of knowledge too, so that's why we're here to recruit. We have nothing ageist any of you. We respect your glos, we just wanted to be different.

I love being Greek.

Different? Names been in use since at least 1998. I do hope you have received copy write clearance in order to use the name.