If you would have asked me at the beginning of my senior year of high school if I could see myself in a sorority, I would have laughed at you and said no definitely not. Well, I have a habit of eating my words because just over a month ago I started college and I also joined a Sorority, and I can say it has been one of the best choices I have ever made. Here are five things I have learned in the small time I have been apart of Greek Life.
1. Support
You get an amazing support system whether you are having roommate problems, boyfriend/girlfriend problems, homesickness, or family issues. Your Greek Life family is there for you in a heartbeat. They want what’s best for you and if they can do anything to help you they will.
2. Every day can be a photo shoot
It does not matter if it's game day, you're going to an apple orchid, you are twinning with your bestie, you need a new photo to post on Instagram, or it’s just a random Tuesday and you look cute. Odds are in your favor that one of your sisters will be willing to either take a picture of you or be in it with you.
3. Academic assistance
Struggling in a class? No problem! There is a very likely chance that someone has taken the class you are currently struggling in and would be very willing to help you study. Not only that but they will also have incredible knowledge of the different campus resources for you to use.
4. In the classroom
Coming from a small town, it was a bit overwhelming to find out that some of my lecture classes would have more people in them than there were people in my PK-12 High School. So it was very nice to find out that a lot of the girls in my sorority are also taking similar classes that I was. In all of my classes, there is at least one person I know from my sorority.
5. Campus involvement
You get super involved on campus like right away. There is always something for you do with you chapter house from fundraising to community service projects. Not to mention events like Homecoming week where you are challenged to go and help in the community from helping on the homecoming committee to donating blood at blood drives, and being apart of the event staff for prep rally and concerts that go on that week.
Believing that Greek Life is just like it is in the movies is like saying High School Musical if what High School was really like. I have just begun to scratch the surface of what it’s like to be apart of a Sorority but I will tell you that it was nothing like I ever expected and everything I could imagine and more. I would never have imagined I would have 150+ sisters now I don’t think I could ever live without them.
