I find that I am not your average sorority girl. While I do love my sorority sisters, and I love everything we do, I am not a stereotype. I will not sit here and force my sorority on you. I will not talk badly about the other Greek Life on campus, and most importantly, I won't judge you if Greek Life is not your thing. When I first began thinking about joining a sorority, I received a very hateful backlash from friends who were not so up to the whole idea. Many times they were questions like, "You want to pay for friends?" "You want to party every weekend?" and, "Are you sure you think this is a good idea?" I simply laughed at these questions because, honestly, I did not pay for friends, I do not party every weekend, and yeah, I'm 100 percent sure joining a sorority is a good idea.
Sororities and fraternities seem to have a bad place in people's minds due to hazing and whatnot. Plus the fact most movies portray sororities to be filled with "sluts" and frat guys to all be rich, rude and irresistible. Truth is? Yeah, some are that way, but most of us are not. No, we do not run around in the house with nothing on and no, we do not get with all the guys we meet. Every girl I have met thus far has been repulsed by the comments made. So no we are not all your average sorority girls.
We do not buy our friends. I think this is the funniest thing I heard from my friends. I am not paying for friends at all. Do you pay for your friends when you pay to be on a sports team? No. So please, for the love of god, stop saying we pay for friends. If I wanted to pay for friends, I would have a long time ago, not now in college.
We do not party every weekend. While we do have our occasional party here and there, we do not throw massive parties every weekend. While we do have the occasion get-together, it is not a constant thing. We do enjoy just staying in and watching TV or studying. We value our education just like everyone else. We take time to study, and have to keep our grades up in order to even be able to stay in Greek life. So what if we go out every now and then? I bet you do too.
I think the most frustrating thing that I have heard about the "typical sorority girl" is that we are dumb. I for one find great offense to this. I have a high GPA and am a biology major with a focus in pre-med. I think that shows I am far from "dumb."
So before you go judging all the Greek life on your campus, I think you should take a second and really think about it. Are we all the same? No. So please. I greatly would appreciate you stopping sorority shamming.
