When you go through recruitment and join your sorority, a few things happen. One of the main ones is finding those girls you are going to be friends with the next four years of college. Of course, you will like and be friends with multiple members of your sorority, but there will be those few girls who you’re are going to be the closest with. Eventually your freshman year will come close to an end, and you will begin picking out who you want to live with.
Most girls live in the house or an apartment with one or more of those girls you clicked with on bid day or your first new member meeting. More than likely you will continue to live with them or another girl in the group. As fun as it is to live with your sister, and as much as you two get along, there are real advantages to living with a girl who maybe you met on bid day, but that didn’t join your sorority, she joined another one.
Living with someone from another sorority you are surrounded by girls from her sorority all the time and her with yours. You are able to become close with multiple girls in another sorority, and you all can hang out with each other. Most people have one or two friends in other houses, but this way you can have sometimes up to 10 or more friends that you probably would have never had. It allows girls to not have to just hang out with girls in their own house and easy to meet other girls not in your house.
Everyone has those days when they are annoyed about something in their sorority or maybe they just need a little break from the sorority. When you go home you get to hang out with someone that has nothing to do with whatever drama is going on in your house or whatever it is that you want a break from. You two are able to have a break from Greek life together and not worry about either one of your sororities. They are also someone you can rant to that have no opinion on the matter or the person and can allow you to get whatever you need off your chest.
No one really wants to be around the same person 24/7. There are just some days when people get on your nerves or it’s just been one of those days. When you’re in a sorority, you have meetings, events, and socials all of the time. You see your sisters all of the time at these events and then lunch and dinner. When you are in a different sorority, you have your own events and things to do so you don’t have to spend every moment with them. You don’t get tired of one another because you spend a perfect amount of time with them. This means a lot less roommate arguments, if there are any at all.
There are good and bad reasons to live with a sister, but you can’t get certain things living with them. When you branch out and live with a girl in a different sorority, you open yourself up to more opportunities and allow yourself to be close with girls in other Greek houses. It’s hard to live with people, and you have to find someone that clicks with you in a lot of ways. Being able to find a sister you click with like that is great, but it can be also really great clicking with other people too.
