Every house is different far beyond their letters, but regardless, all sisters can relate to the 52 truths below!
1. You have unlimited access to everyone’s closet, as long as yours is open on the weekends as well.
2. You always have a breakfast, lunch, dinner, and 3 a.m. pizza date.
3. You never have to drink alone.
4. Someone in the house has usually taken, or is currently taking, a class you’re taking.
Study buddies!
5. Never buying books because you can usually find a hand-me-down version laying somewhere in the house.
6. Ramping up your resume with all the community service and volunteer work you do every semester.
7. Don’t have house meetings, study groups, community service or a mixer?
It’s probably pledging season.
8. Arguing over the music because half of you like hip-hop, a quarter like country and the remaining like that weird techno-garbage.
So you compromise and set Taylor Swift on replay.
9. Need to pull an all-nighter?!
Don’t worry someone else does to! It’s kind of like a sleep over right?
10. Secretly hating when a new pledge class goes through.
11. Defending Greek life to everyone who tries to argue that it’s just an excuse to party.
12. Re-read number seven; does it look like there is time to party 24/7 and maintain a high GPA?
13. That’s a nice snack, I hope you have enough to share with 10-plus sisters.
14. Why buy makeup when your sister down the hall has Urban Decay?
15. Despite all being different majors, when one of our own is sick, we all become nursing majors.
16. Representing the house one way or another every single day (typically not on purpose).
17. Getting asked during breaks, “What are those shapes on your shirt?”
Those are Greek letters you poor Greek-deprived individual.
18. Having a hundred brothers that are more than willing to step in an kick butt if need-be.
19. Getting endless guy advice from other girls who need to listen to their own advice.
20. Using the excuse, “Sorry mom, I can’t come home next weekend we have a volunteer event,” (technically I’m volunteering to go to that toga party, right?)
21. Supporting every sister no matter the request.
Can you quiz me on a subject you can’t even pronounce? Yes. Can you work out with me and slap the cookie out of my hand? Of course. Can you come to (insert school/ club activity)? Always. Can I cut your hair for practice?…sure. No matter what you' re there!
22. Always offering your shirt as the go-to tissue for the water works.
23. Always receiving blunt advice: those shorts are too small and that shirt is too low cut.
24. “Want to go to McDonald's to get a shake?”
25. Always having a wing-woman on duty and never failing when the job falls into your hands.
26. Finding no issue in third wheeling on dinner dates or while party hoping.
27. Having the “No man left behind," motto and threating to physically hurt anyone who even thinks about hurting one of our own.
28. Who needs a boyfriend when you have a house full of brothers?
29. Picture or it didn’t happen.
30. Fighting over the one mirror while 10 people are getting ready.
31. Loving your family line.
32. And claiming things like "it runs in the family."
33. Convincing your parents to help pay your dues even though they don’t understand that “Greek thing."
34. House elections are slightly more serious than the presidential race.
35. Brunches!
36. The feeling when you get new letters!
37. Loving every Greek regardless of the house.
38. Forgetting it is acceptable to have non-Greek friends.
39. Instantly forming a connection with Greeks at different colleges.
40. Themed mixers are the bomb.
41. Getting mad at a sister for a day then realizing how much you need her.
42. You NEVER go after another sister’s ex. No exceptions.
43. Fighting with your brothers like they are your actual siblings.
44. Random trips to Walmart just to get out of your dorm.
45. Re-living all the dumb decisions you made over the weekend at brunch on Sunday.
46. Having friendships where you don’t have to talk to them everyday, but they will always be there.
47. Always having at least one sober sister to do the honors of DDing.
48. Never ever having any free time.
49. Paddles are the best birthday/ Christmas/pick-me-up one could make.
50. Waiting all year for formal!
51. Wanting to kill a sister/brother by the end of the semester.
52. But then realizing over break that without your Greek family you are not whole.
“Going Greek” isn’t easy, being Greek isn’t always easy, but it is always worth it!
