Sorority Dirt is Not So Dirty
I recently finished reading "Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities" by Alexandra Robbins. I then went over to amazon.com to read other people's reviews and found some very incendiary trash talking going on. People are really bent out of shape about this book (which if you don't know was written by the author after posing undercover as an undergrad sorority girl to get the real dirt on sororities). Its funny that people are so mad because the author really didn't uncover anything new.
I was actually disappointed in the book's "revelations". I read the book hoping to learn what all these sorority secret rituals were, but was rather dismayed to learn that they aren't nearly as exciting as I thought they would be. A good friend of mine was in a sorority in college and would never tell me what these "rituals" consisted of. For some reason I thought that to mean they were really meaningful and held some secret that promises eternal life or something. Bah, its just a buch of handshakes, phrases, and candlelight ceremonies. That's not the holy grail I was expecting.
So, I absolve myself of any leftover regret (there really isn't much - maybe .0001%) of not joining a sorority in college. I didn't think it was for me then, and now know for sure that I made the right decision.
I was actually disappointed in the book's "revelations". I read the book hoping to learn what all these sorority secret rituals were, but was rather dismayed to learn that they aren't nearly as exciting as I thought they would be. A good friend of mine was in a sorority in college and would never tell me what these "rituals" consisted of. For some reason I thought that to mean they were really meaningful and held some secret that promises eternal life or something. Bah, its just a buch of handshakes, phrases, and candlelight ceremonies. That's not the holy grail I was expecting.
So, I absolve myself of any leftover regret (there really isn't much - maybe .0001%) of not joining a sorority in college. I didn't think it was for me then, and now know for sure that I made the right decision.