Yes, I am your typical sorority girl who loves to wear her oversized T-shirt and Nike shorts with my Nike tennis shoes, but I also like to sit in bed and eat an eight count Chick-Fil-A nugget, large french fries and a large tea while binge watching Netflix. I am far more than just a label attached to me that says I am in a sorority. People typically associate the word "sorority" with a dumb, skinny, blonde, party every night kind of girls.
I put in more hours in the library every week than I do at the bar in town. In my sorority, I am required to keep my grades above a certain GPA. I came to school to focus on getting a career not a record score of how many jello shots I can do on Thursday night. And no, I take my classes and studying as a priority, and my sorority does, too.
No, we don't have bikini car washes to raise money for our philanthropy; instead, we raise money by having pancake breakfast, spaghetti dinners, volleyball tournaments, dessert night and "kisses" booth. I love my philanthropy very much and believe that St. Jude is the best philanthropy a sorority could choose. I love raising money for St. Jude and knowing I am making a difference in a child's life. Most people don't see the money we raise for the children at St. Jude and the love we have for that hospital. We also do community service each month for the school or community. We love to help others, not just ourselves.
I love to craft, and Mod Podge is always on hand with, of course, canvases. Craft nights are the best with my roommate and suite mates. It usually ends up with glitter scattered all over the room, including our bodies, for days. Our walls are more than likely covered with sorority quotes, symbols, and "throw what you know" canvases. We all have somewhere in our closet a basket or container full of every color paint you can think of and glitter in bottles.
Most of the pictures in my camera roll are "throw what you know" pictures with my sisters at the most random places because "Did you really go there if you didn't take a picture there?" It's basically an essential thing to do when you go to a waterfall or lake to take a picture throwing our sign.
Now, do not even get me started about T-shirts... My closet and drawers overflow with T-shirts. I probably have enough srat T-shirts to wear each day for three months. Everybody knows on campus when a sorority gets a new T-shirt because all the girls are wearing the same T-shirt together.
Two words: "Bid Day!" It's the day you get to cover your body in glitter (and hopefully it will come off in about two weeks after one hundred showers), paint your face, wear tutus, and whatever other sorority-spirited thing you can think of. Bid Day is one of the days of the year when sorority girls go all out in pure excitement that there will be new girls joining their chapter making a difference.
I know even though I am in a sorority, I'm not what most sorority girls act like in movies or television shows. I'm an average girl who is involved in a sorority who loves to raise money for my philanthropy, crafts any time possible, binge watches "Grey's Anatomy" (sometimes I think I could be a doctor from watching it for so many years), studies most every day, and loves Chick-Fil-A.
I should not be defined by what most people think of as a typical sorority.
