"Greek Life: The Dark Side"

 This article is written in first person from a female who was in a sorority for two years out of her college experience. She’s reflecting back on what she experienced while rushing and joining her sorority. She claims that it was a waste of time and money and it wasn't an enriching experience.

      The author touches on bases that go against what my blogs about, like buying your friends. In a recent poll that I did majority of the public didn't think that you are buying your friends when you enter the Greek Community, where as the author disagrees with this statement after she’s been in her sorority for 2 years. Another major point that she talks about is how being in a sorority is materialistic and superficial, if you join any organization you’re going to have shirts and promotions for your organization, it just happens that being in a sorority your shirts and promotions are going to be a little overwhelmingly girly, which sometimes comes across to the general public as “superficial” and “materialistic”. What the author has to realize is that we live in a materialistic world, if companies and organizations didn't promote themselves by looking good and acting like they’re having the time of their life then no one will want to join their company or organization, people are naturally drawn to things that look better than things that are drabby.

       It’s a very emotional and argumentative piece in the way where if your reading it from the stand point of not being in the Greek Community, you realize that you're never going to want to join a Greek house and how movies/TV shows portray sororities/Greeks in general is true; how they’re fake and superficial. But if you’re coming from someone who’s in the Greek Community, you want to show the author that she just happened to have a negative experience and that being in the Greek community is so much more than how the movies portray us to be. I also feel like she's being a little hypocritical to the Greek Community because she was apart of a sorority for 2 years. That takes a lot of commitment to stay in an for 2 whole years and at the end of those 2 years realize that she didn't like it. She even stated how she joined, "just to see what it was all about" because she saw many upperclassmen girls wearing their letters, so she was even lured by their positive aura. 

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