@@nichellekmalvous6688 yeah you’re probably right. I’m just slightly biased cuz I went to RIT. It’s a relatively chill, nerdy college. So the frats are A LOT better. Basically just camaraderie. Apparently not so much the sororities though. Learned that while talking to some girl.
@@nichellekmalvous6688 I’m pretty sure sororities do hazing too also a lot of colleges are starting to crack down on that and make it illegal after all the deaths
I knew a sorority girl who would get really mad when people called sororities cults. But every time she talked about it, it literally sounded exactly like this skit. You pay a ton of money to make sure that all of your friends are pretty and rich, but you will be bullied, harassed, overworked, taken advantage of, stalked...
none of this happened and you dont know a sorority girl bc let me tell you, you missed the mark by a MILE, it aint like hollywood. its both better and worse. lots of parties, yes. guarantee of attractive people, hard no on both sides of the fence. that mosh of buzzwords you threw out, def not. that hollywood depiction of greek life no longer exists, except in the minds of people who've never had any interactions with what theyre talking about.
The "your big will look out for you" made me laugh. I was in a sports club and the first time I got drunk, I was absolutely terrified. Luckily, I was with the club members and my big helped me out to make sure I was ok while she was just as drunk. She was later removed from the club because she touched women without their permission. I did not know about that until my senior year
@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep one. In sororities you can only be in one. I learned this the hard way, but I'm glad I'm still there despite the rumors and stereotypes.
As an ex-sorority girl, can 100% relate. Like I straight up got harrassed and bullied by my sisters. And I was supposed to let that stuff go after they apologized? Haha no. Like I can forgive, but I refuse to forget it. But yeah, actively dropping rn, never been so relieved
I never understood the appeal. Why did you wanna join in the first place? To look cool? To be famous or respected? I geniunely have no clue but i've always wanna talk to someone who did what you did. (meaning who wanted and go here but didn't share the morality behind it after living it a bit) PS: When i was at university, i was this shy geek with only one or two friends during the first month to this introverted one who organise big party but staying mostly behind the scene. Seing people being happy and having fun was enough : )
@@Eldiran1 oh I was most interested because my sororities big charity was to aid research into an illness that my great aunt died from only half a year earlier. I also liked a few of the girls in it, but I kinda realized they only liked me because their numbers could go up if I joined lol. I also realized they only helped the charity for a month really. I also really don’t fit the stereotype tbh, like I’m on my school’s esports team lol
@@guessimshakespeare7736 Clearly don't fit the stereotype but that awesome in my opinion : ) That's a very valid reasons, to go and to quit, thanks for the response. If i may add, you seem a very interesting character; i wish you the best in life : )
I ditched formal rush because it was overwhelming & joined the new sorority on campus a few months later because their rush event was a “TV Night” where we all just hung out & watched Netflix. Our own advisor once called us The Island of Misfit Toys. 😂 That being said, the joke about paying to have a full-time job during rush hits a *little* too close to home. ☠️
@@guessimshakespeare7736 we don't have sororities in my country, what exactly are they? From what I've seen, it's like clubs?? Do y'all just get drunk?
@@karuchan4989 So basically like a houndreed years ago US students decided to make their own version free-masonry. You knowblike how in highschool and stuff like that the cool kids and the ones who were more popular were like the people at the top of the highscjool student mini-society? Well basically they realised that due to the bjg numbers of students that attend college/university and the fact that students are much more mature/smarter than highschoolers, they can't really be considered the top of the "society" without bringing something to the table (like actually being smart, actually being likeable and making a positive impact etc). So how do they decide to bypass this? Simple they copy the model that already exists in the real world, the freemasonry, and just simply emulate that at the college level. So they litteraly become a secret society with no value other than the fact that the members (just like in a cult) are obligated to put the sorority/fraternity interests first. And so simply they just recruit the new kids that were the most popular in highschool and they make sure that they continue to be the ones at the top controlling the social scene by being the ones that control the parties especially the "good parties" with alchol etc) all the while admiting into the frat/sorority members that arent that good lookking/thatvarent popular that are more nerds so that they can give the frat/sorority credibilty. So basically a real easy exchange, the "nerdy" person gets to feel popular and go to parties while the fraternity/sorority takes advantage of the nerdy person reputation with the proffesors and the fact that they have good grades so they can proudly claim to the college faculty/staff:"Hey proffesors our members actually do good work and study etc!" so that their organisations LOOK actually like a valid thing and not just a group of jackasses with NO REAL VALUE that control the social scene and the college student society by continuing to be the popular ones by throwing parties etc. (So just like another cult pyrqmid scheme where the people at the top get to do exactly jack nothing while the bottom new people, they call them "pledges", continue to keep the appearences of the sorority/frat as a legit actually good organization). Is all terrible stuff that is happening and guess what? It is true that in any other part of the worls this doesnt happen in college but the Americans are not worse, they just did this earlier, as I said in all of our societies right now there exists freemasonry and all this stuff no matter what country you are in, look up and search on the web about it.
My gf told me one of the UF sororities would make new girls sit on a dryer while it ran in their undergarments and then circle the parts of them that giggled with sharpie. Then they’d tell them to lose the weight in those areas
It is fascinating to ne tho how far people will go to be "socially accepted" and "integrated with the cool kids" even jf it meens this kind of awfull humiliation and losing all dignity
... please, tell me they didn't make people try to lose bloody muscle mass. MUSCLE MEAT JIGGLES, GUYS. Edit; my dyslexic ass did not notice the typo at first, but miscellaneous body parts giggling is hysterical to me.
@@ytube2412 I never get that about American schools. Why are the self-obsessed conformists "cool"? They sound like a complete pain in the arse, and being their friend would be like a job. Does anyone actually respect the "popular" kids except themselves? ARE they popular? Do people like them? I'm genuinely asking.
@greenaum cant speak for everyone but I sure as shit never liked the "popular" kids. Girls would always be jealous of the "popular" girls, though - because they're pretty. I always thought they were trashy and looked like skeletons tbh 😂.
I was a sorority candidate this last year, and I can 100% most of this is dead on 💀 it really was like selling your soul to the devil. I left when I realized that everyone I became “friends” with didn’t actually wanna be friends.
Ya I joined a sorority for like a week and immediately dropped it because I had too many things going on and while I was there I made a few friends but the second I dropped they all like… ignored me.. dead silence on their end… it was kinda sad but eye opening
The cool thing about college is that you don't have to be in a sorority or fraternity anymore to go to parties. before the issue was that you wouldn't even know they were happening unless you were in a social group that was living on campus but now with social media it's like you're going to know if you want to know. not to mention you can just go to the art department and take take an art class, not basic art 101, take the highest level art course you can that doesn't have prerequisites. you'll have to be there late at night a lot to finish projects and stuff and there will be other people there as well and art students always know where this shit is going down.
That has never been true. Along with sororities and fraternities, there were also tons of social clubs for varying interests, sports clubs, clubs focused on specific interests as well, all having parties and all trying to find people to come to them. thats old school. if you want to be more recent with it, my freshman year was the first year facebook came out, and it didnt come out until the semester had already started. before then, and even during because social media really wasnt that important, roving packs of freshmen would leave the dorms in search of parties. representatives of places having parties would try and meet up with these groups and lead them towards their parties. then...and get this....they would tell their party goers that they would be doing the same thing the next weekend. after one week, all freshmen knew where parties were...wild huh? its almost like there were other ways to plan and execute parties before social media
@@c.s.p.5103 I went to 2 universities in 2 states, and at both of them having representatives of parties walking around in real life was like screaming at the cops to come shut it down. You and I are about the same age, I think you are 1 year older.
@@zangyloveskawaii6003 If you mean malicious by Jake, then no. Its just that all of those girls want jake, but he doesn't actually want any of them except for maybe one girl in the opposing sorority, so he's using the girls who throw themselves at him as experience in order to impress the main girl.
i had a college mentorship summer thing as an incoming freshman and my "peer mentor" was a sophomore sorority girl who was supposed to give us tours around campus and talk abt clubs and meet up once a week with us to discuss our studies and problems in schools. The first day my group met her and she was talking about clubs, she mixed up the NAACP and the NCAA, and knew nothing about clubs outside of her sorority. I don't know how you apply for that thing anyway. She was pretty nice, but god
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@@DublinMarley Those are NOT in any way similar to American frats. Wiki doesn’t give every answer the way you think it does. There is NO sorority system here. There are not any houses, teams, frats, whatever you want to call them. Our university system doesn’t include any of that. I’ve been through it, my husband has, and our three kids. I’m a Canadian. I know what I’m talking about. But thanks for the link to a random wiki page?
@@alijane6675 My fraternity has several northern chapters. I have meet them. They do not go into the house structures as much due to local regs but they are the same as us.
@@alijane6675 bog3.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2022/06/5_2022.06_Greek-Life-and-the-Relationship-of-Fraternities-and-Sororities-with-UBC.pdf UBC alone has eight. Just for fun I will see if I can find some houses.
It _definitely_ depends on the sorority and which particular branch you're in. My dad taught at a college for half my life, and he said there was this one sorority that had 2-3 girls in the same class for every class they were in, and each one would take notes and interact with the course material in a different way so they could all benefit from each-other's learning styles! Like, one would take notes on the verbal portion, one would take notes on the board, and one would plan out their questions.
@@guessimshakespeare7736 cant say the exact name because it is pretty small and it would be easy to figure out what school i go to, but its very similar in concept to Phi Sigma Rho (an engineering unhoused sorority) but its open to all STEM majors!
I joined a fraternity in college and ended up being president of it. But I always regretted it. Don't do it, kids. Just study hard and make a few good friends not based on getting wasted. That will server you much better in life.
My mom was in the D9 and they're nothing like the regular sororities 😭😭 I never even knew what stereotypes people were talking about like hazing, since all that stuff was from movies.
I turn 21 in a month and I’m not allowed to post a picture of myself with anything that could even be misconstrued as a drink. If I do, my sisterhood will be on probation until the new semester.
@@preachingsarcasm2213 Well it all comes from a deep desire to be seen with the cool kids. Their history is that about a hundred years ago, US students created their own version of Freemasonry. In high school, the popular kids were at the top of the social hierarchy. However, in college, the larger student body and increased maturity meant they couldn't maintain this status without offering something substantial, like intelligence, likability, or a positive impact. To overcome this, they mimicked Freemasonry, forming secret societies with the main goal of prioritizing fraternity or sorority interests. They recruited popular high schoolers to maintain their social dominance, especially by controlling parties. They also admitted less popular, academically strong students to lend credibility to their organization. This created a mutually beneficial exchange: the "nerds" felt popular and attended parties, while the fraternity/sorority used their academic reputations to appear legitimate to faculty. In essence, these societies function like pyramid schemes. The leaders do little while new recruits, or "pledges," maintain the organization's facade as a respectable entity. This problematic system is unique to American colleges, but secret societies exist worldwide. Freemasonry and similar structures are present in all societies, as a quick online search will reveal. So it is just that, insecurities of people harvested by some socially able crooks
Going to a college with a very different greek life culture is really fun. Cause I can watch these kind of videos and laugh at the other frats and sororities
Frats and sororities are a small, insane subgroup of the student body, and there’s plenty of much better student orgs out there. We’re not as screwed as you might think.
I was honestly shocked by how different sororities were to fraternities at my college. I rushed AXP late in my time there, but a friend of mine joined a sorority and dropped junior year saying how like a cult it was
A friend joined a sorority. She refused to go to a party in favor of studying for an exam. Her exact words were "it was the fourth party out of like fourteen that month i said no to. I knew it would mean the end of my social and mental health but i really wanted to pass my exam. Then my savior spoke up. She also was in that class and spun a big tearfilled story that her parents would stop paying for her college if she failed and that she would stay home to study too, because she was not ready to leave us all. It had all the girls by the throat and they tearfully, which i think were fake, expressed concern and wishes for her to stay home to stay with us." She said this like a war story. Made me glad that i didnt join any sororities
My family never understood why i didn't want to join a sorority. I don't like to go out, i don't drink, i want to exclusively soend time with my fiance and my dog and i already have an eating disorder
