When people think of sororities, they usually think about a group of girls that all dress the same and chant about different signs and colors. These are the girls that have to pay for friendship. They all think that they are all that and they are always the best dressed. The members always have smiles on their face because they just went to paint canvases together. They are usually the dumbest girls on campus since they only worry about going to frat parties.
It might be true that we have chants that we are proud to sing, or that we truly did not learn how fun it is to paint canvases until joining a sorority, but it is not true that we are dumb or think we are better than everyone. I am tired listening to the stereotypes of sororities, because that is all they are, stereotypes.
"Sorority girls are so stupid." Sorority girls usually have the best GPAs on campus. When going through, there is a certain GPA required to even be allowed to go in to the parties. After girls are allowed to join the sorority, there are grade checks every so often. Grade checks that improve our grades if we are having difficulties. We have required study hours, making sure that we have set time to make school first. School always comes first while being in a sorority, always. Without doing well in school, you are not even able to go to social events. So next time you are in class, look for a sorority girl, she might be a good study buddy.
"Sororities are just paid friendships." I did not join a sorority to pay for friendship. Trust me, it is a lot cheaper to meet friends in class. People may think that sorority girls only hangout with others in their sorority, but that is not true. I have plenty of friends that are outside of my sorority that mean as much to me as my sisters do. Joining a sorority allowed me to be able to find girls that have the same interests as me which helped me build a friendship off of that. I did not sign up for friendship, I signed up for sisterhood. Sisterhood is for life, some friendships might not be. When being in a sorority, friends become sisters, which means that they become family, which you do not pay for.
"Sorority girls think they are better than everyone else." When I took the pledge to be apart of my organization, it did not say that I am now better than everyone else on campus, or even in my home town. I took the pledge that I said I was going to help those in need and to be nice to others. My favorite part of the year is when we get to travel to our philanthropy and stand out on the highway and clean up trash. I should not be thought of being better than others for doing something I love, which is helping others. We stand tall because we know that we are going to make a difference in the world. That is something to be proud of.
We are the girls with the smiles on our faces. We are the girls that are going to get chants stuck in our head because we just practiced them for an hour. We are the girls that are going to dress the same because we want to make the best impression as we can. We are the girls that spend hours painting our letters all over canvases since we have pride in our organization.
We are the girls that spend extra hours studying because we want to ace that test. We are the girls that hold our heads up tall since we just donated one thousand dollars to our philanthropy. We are the girls that should not be frowned upon from society. We are the girls that are going to change society.
