Being in a sorority can be one of the greatest experiences of your life; the memories you make and lessons you learn will stay with you for a lifetime. The process to get there however can be long, exhausting and confusing so here’s some advice to help you through it. Which you probably won’t listen to anyways considering I never listen to advice, even when I should have…like the time my mom told me not to cut my own bangs.
Stop listening to stereotypes. First off, most stereotypes of houses are made up by other houses and are probably based on one girl…THAT GRADUATED SIX YEARS AGO. Deciding not to choose a house that you had great conversations with during recruitment because of something you heard is like not choosing a school you had a great tour at because of something you read on a random website.
Stop being superficial. Being able to post on Twitter and Facebook that some random website voted you “The Hottest Sorority” is really cool for the fifteen seconds it takes you to figure out how to fit the link in 140 characters but college is made up of roughly 1,382,400 minutes and that’s a long time to sit around talking about how attractive you all are.
Pick people you’d want to be stuck on a deserted island with. The biggest thing people forget when they pick their sorority house is the most important part of a sorority: PICK PEOPLE YOU’D WANT TO BE FRIENDS WITH. And I don’t mean pick people you want in your cover photo, I mean pick people who you’d want to sit around eating an entire tub of ice cream while watching Carrie Underwood in The Sound Of Music. On Facebook you may think there’s glamorous Greek events every night but in reality you’ll be spending most of your time in the TV room with 15 other people watching reality TV.
After you graduate and move away from your sisters you realize that sororities aren’t about the apparel, the frat who asks you to homecoming or how hot your sisters look in bathing suits. It’s about the friends who stayed up crying with you when you got your heart broken, the friends who convinced you that fourth slice of pizza was necessary, the friends who never made you tackle your college years alone. It’s about the friendships you made that mattered. You have four years in one house. Make a choice that will make your friendships matter.
