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

So, as you know, I'm the Seasoned Old Bird. I'm an advisor at a large SEC school. (The SEC, it just means more. IYKYK) Things are competitive around here. Recruitment can seem really ugly, and because of this, some mommas have decided to pay thousands, yes I said thousands, of dollars for their sweet baby angel to have recruitment coaching. What? So, I'm interpreting that your sweet baby angel, what I'll now call sba, can't hold a normal conversation. That's all

Touse, Mouse, Bouse. (Insert eye roll here) Not sure what these mean? Good, because they're stupid. I said what I said & I won't apologize for it. I am the seasoned old bird after all. It's a form of Greek Rank I first saw on yikyak. Every advisor and FSL (fraternity/sorority life) advisor just groaned out loud. Yikyak is the bane of our existence. Touse is short for top house, and because you're not ignorant, I'll let you figure out what Mouse & Bouse are. The realit

I'm not a spring chicken. I'm more of a well seasoned old bird that's been in the crock pot for a while. I've seen, heard, and done a few things in my life. There have been recent developments within Greek Life that have enlightened and disturbed me. That's why I've started this site. I want to tell you the truth about Greek Life. The reason I advocate for it & warnings of trends I'm seeing. I want to advocate for others who see value in the Greek experience. If you wan