A little secret that needs to be understood, but no one really talks about is the importance sororities place on grades. They want you to be authentically you, but they also want you to make good grades. Your GPA is factored with all your sisters to get a chapter GPA & everyone wants theirs to be the highest. You came to college to get a degree. You might have several meetings, because you're doing lots of things, you might have a party that week, you might even have to w

Taken from Pinterest Everyone knows the adage that you only get out of something what you put into it. That doubly applies to sorority life. I was doom scrolling through Instagram, I was really using it as task avoidance, but that's another story. I came across RushTokPodcast, and their content is Seasoned Old Bird approved. One of the posts that caught my attention was the one that spoke of their sorority regrets. Things have changed, a lot, since I was a collegian. I

As long as women have been around we have needed each other. There are some great movies about it. The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood & Steel Magnolias are two that come to mind. (These are very Gen X, because, Seasoned Old Bird) Both have deep themes of mother-daughter relationships, but more importantly feature how valuable female friendships are. (Funny side note, they both take place in Louisiana.) Women's friendships are an absolute & sororities started out