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" 1. Expectation: You will throw epic pregame parties. Reality: Your house is technically alcohol-free, so you resort to doing things like playing beer pong in the creepy basement that only has one lightbulb. 2. Expectation: It will be loud at all times. Reality: It will be louder than you could ever imagine at all times. But you&amp;#039;ll learn how to sleep through anything! 3. Expectation: Everyone will borrow your clothes and you&amp;#039;ll never be able to find anything. Reality: True! But you&amp;#039;ll get to borrow from 30 other closets, so it&amp;#039;s a draw. 4. Expectation: Not having to worry about any of your meals since the house comes stocked with food and a personal chef. Reality: Everyone will drunkenly eat all the leftovers, so on the weekends you&amp;#039;ll be foraging for a stale slice of bread and a lone piece of cheese if you don&amp;#039;t want to go out for food. 5. Expectation: Your stuff is safe, because you&amp;#039;re no longer living in a dorm full of crazies. Reality: Every house has a resident klepto. Every. House. 6. Expectation: Because these are your best friends and a giant house full of girls, you won&amp;#039;t find yourself sexiled because your roommate will know better than to bring home a guy. Reality: You will sleep on the couch in the TV room more than once. 7. Expectation: The girl who&amp;#039;s really good at curling hair can do your hair all the time. Reality: She will always be too busy because everyone will ask her to do this before you get to her. 8. Expectation: All those cozy rooms with antique furniture will be great places to get homework done. Reality: You will become very well acquainted with the fourth floor of the library. 9. Expectation: You&amp;#039;ll all watch TV together while eating popcorn and other junk. Reality: You will fight every. Single. Week. Over getting to watch Vampire Diaries vs. Grey&amp;#039;s Anatomy live. 10. Expectation: Living in a quad with three of your best friends will be amazing. Reality: People will fight to the death for the singles and doubles. 11. Expectation: If you forget about your laundry in the machine, people will be respectful since they&amp;#039;re not random dorm strangers. Reality: You will still find your clothes in a wet, wrinkled pile. 12. Expectation: You have an open invitation to party at the nearby frat, and you have a chill best-friendy relationship with all the guys in it. Reality: You have an open invitation to party at the nearby frat, but they are also obsessed with breaking into your house and stealing your sorority composite. 13. Expectation: It will be so fun to all get ready together. Reality: If you don&amp;#039;t shower by 5 p.m., you&amp;#039;re not getting any hot water. If you don&amp;#039;t shower by 8 p.m., you&amp;#039;ll be lucky to get one in at all before everyone starts pregaming. 14. Expectation: It will be so fun to all eat dinner together. Reality: Get used to the early bird special at 5:30 p.m. if you want to get anything more than the dregs of the mashed potatoes. 15. Expectation: All these realities will make for the worst living situation of all your four years of college. Reality: It will be the best time ever. Related: 22 Partying Rituals Only Sorority Girls Understand 14 Things Not to Say to a Sorority Girl  19 Signs You Were in a Sorority Follow Alie on Twitter. Photo Credit: Columbia Pictures "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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