I read this article called Sorority Chapter Meetings As Told By Dogs and I was surprised at how pessimistic it was. If you really dread going to sorority events that much, maybe you should reconsider being in one.
If you're in a sorority, you're required to go to weekly meetings. How they run and which day they're on varies chapter by chapter and school by school, but they're all pretty similar. Tuesdays are my favorite because I get to go to meeting! Here's a breakdown of why they're so great, accompanied by cat gifs because cats are also great.
One meeting a month is formal, a great excuse to dress up!
Honestly when else am I going to wear all these dresses in my closet?
It's Tuesday and you can't wait for class to end so you can run over to the house.
Before meeting, you have chapter dinner catered from your favorite restaurants.
Skyline, Chinese, BDubs, Chipotle, Insomnia Cookies, is your mouth watering yet?
You get to see all your lovely sistas.
Before & after meeting you get to talk to all your best friends, what could be better?
After everyone's seated, you realize you forgot your planner AGAIN.
It's OK though, sisters have your back. They'll text you later what you couldn't write down during meeting. Or in my case you write on a bus schedule and everyone around you wonders why you have a flipping bus schedule in meeting.
Meeting starts. Things are recited.
A couple people always mess up the words/lyrics and it's just as funny as it was last week & the week before that.
Council & appointed officers give their reports
A few sisters always elicit laughs from chapter while they give their reports & honestly it's the highlight of my week. This is also when you hear all the dates of things going on, which is convenient so you don't have to search through weeks of emails to find the time of that thing you wanted to attend next week.
My chapter also does this thing called Hot Seat where 1 or 2 sisters find a paper pepper under their chair. The chosen person stands while sisters compliment them, recount memories, or just say why they love that person. We also have a sisterhood journal entry read aloud each meeting where one member tells another why they appreciate that person. These types of things remind me why I love my chapter so much.
The night's over and you can't wait for next Tuesday!
But of course you don't go home til you get that late night ice cream run in, with a car packed full of sisters.
There's obviously other events throughout the week where you have a chance to see your sisters, but chapter meetings have the highest attendance. Getting to see 100+ of my best friends all in one place once a week? Count me in! Tuesday evenings are going to be one of the things I miss most once I leave college.
