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"  1. &amp;quot;You kind of bought your friends.&amp;quot; This is some BS! A sorority is a nationally run organization that employs people. Paying dues is simply not buying friends. If that were the case, my mailman would be my BFF because I pay his salary via taxes, so.  2. &amp;quot;College is over, get over it.&amp;quot; If you have friends you went to school with who you could not imagine your life without, it is unfair for you to say this. Let&amp;#039;s all just have a nostalgic moment about our college friends real quick. 3. &amp;quot;Did you get hazed?&amp;quot; Everyone&amp;#039;s initiation process is different. You won&amp;#039;t meet a sorority girl who regrets the relationships she made during hers. There is not one sorority whose chapters&amp;#039; initiation processes are identical, so everyone has to speak for herself. Hazing isn&amp;#039;t a good thing, but it does exist. 4. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s not actually like sisterhood, though.&amp;quot; But, yeah, it kind of is! A lot of people fall into sororities because they are looking for their &amp;quot;people&amp;quot; in college and haven&amp;#039;t yet found them. After spending so much time wondering who those people are going to be, initiation really does feel like some kind of sisterhood. Others are only children and quite literally find their families.  5. &amp;quot;I would never want to be a part of that.&amp;quot; That&amp;#039;s fine! I didn&amp;#039;t really want to be a part of the Mathletes, so I didn&amp;#039;t join that either. But I can recognize that Mathletes are cool, they&amp;#039;re just not for me. To each her own, betch. 6. &amp;quot;Sororities are anti-feminist.&amp;quot; OK, no. Sororities are not anti-feminist because (1) they are based on principles of leadership and support, and (2) they are where so many uber-feminist superstars started (Condoleeza Rice, Katie Couric, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, to name a few). The perception of sororities is unfortunate: that everyone in them is a hot-freaking-mess. Frat parties (while someeeetimes fun) are not anyone&amp;#039;s shining moment. But for every drunken college dance floor, there are three times the opportunities for leadership positions, community service, and campus philanthropy events held by a sorority. Seriously! 7. &amp;quot;What is so special about your big/your little? Aren&amp;#039;t you all sisters?&amp;quot; Yes, but the idea behind having a big sister and a little sister within your chapter is that you form an even closer bond. Your big becomes your go-to person for everything. She is one year older and wise beyond her years. Your little is perfect. She just is. It&amp;#039;s never bad to have someone looking out for you in the wild world of college. Also, it&amp;#039;s not like you can have 43 bridesmaids one day.  8. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s no way you were friends with everyone in your chapter.&amp;quot; See #7. OF COURSE I wasn&amp;#039;t friends with everyone in my chapter, but that&amp;#039;s not a bad thing. Are you friends with everyone in every club you ever joined? No, because nobody has the capacity to like that many people. 9. &amp;quot;Don&amp;#039;t you all get sick of each other?&amp;quot; Yes! Which is precisely why we are not all BFFAEAE. One of the great things about Greek life is that it spans across chapters. Some of my best friends are girls from other sororities! Just because you pledged a sorority doesn&amp;#039;t mean you are BOUND BY BLOOD to spend all your time together always. That&amp;#039;s not a thing.  10. &amp;quot;Theme parties are stupid.&amp;quot; I can make a toga out of anything. If that isn&amp;#039;t a life skill, I don&amp;#039;t know what is. 11. &amp;quot;Why do you have so many T-shirts?&amp;quot; OK, that&amp;#039;s fair. I do have a lot of frat tanks and formal tops. But each one of them is sentimental! Why would I throw away my sophomore spring philanthropy shirt when it ended up being one of the best memories of college? You kept your playbill or your pennant or something didn&amp;#039;t you? 12. &amp;quot;Doesn&amp;#039;t your &amp;#039;philanthropy&amp;#039; really just pay for parties?&amp;quot; Absolutely not. Each sorority has their own nationally affiliated philanthropies. When we put on social events for the purpose of raising money for charity, that money goes completely to charity. The dues that I&amp;#039;m buying my friends with are what pay for the parties!  13. &amp;quot;Do you even remember anything from college?&amp;quot; I resent that, sir. Don&amp;#039;t get me wrong, there are a few parties that I may have overdone with my sisters in college. But I can count them on one hand. What I can&amp;#039;t count is how many (better, perfect) nights were spent in one room, with one bottle of wine, and Dream Girls karaoke. I remember every one of those nights so, so well.  14. &amp;quot;Didn&amp;#039;t you hate living with so many girls?&amp;quot; Thirty-five times the closets, 35 times the fun. Related:  19 Signs You Were in a Sorority Follow Tess on  Twitter. Photo Credit: Exclusive Media Group "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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