YGreekExperienceMV, but mine put me in touch with a group of fantastically smart women I might have missed out on getting to know on an otherwise huge campus.

My friends who went to other schools, where the Greek population was a much smaller percentage, had good experiences. It was just that my college was so overwhelmingly Greek that the prevailing opinion was that if you didn't go Greek, you might as well rot in your dorm room for 4 years.

Although once I did read a novel about a girls' private school where New Girls were taken under the wing of Old Girls.

We had a Big Sisters/Little Sisters thing at my highschool. I remember mine gave me a blank journal. Really nice!

Dude, I just finished the last piece of the KILLER spinach lasagna I made on Sunday and I am so sad that it is gone. Like my innocence...lasagna gone.

SO GOOD. Nom nom nom.

DH happily elected not to go Greek - at our school which had a large such population, including service fraternities and sororities, houses that were tantamount to drinking clubs, and a number that had been there since the beginning of time (the Frats, anyway). I love him for it.

Instead, he drove a university transit bus. Turns out, they had their own group/mixers, big/little sisters/brothers, and a bus rodeo at the end of each year. They did manage to mow down one of the serpentine walls during my tenure as a writer on the weekly university journal. So when he found out that I was behind the 'top 10 ways not to get a UTS Safety award' column, that was an interesting discussion. He threatened to sic the bus-brotherhood on me.

Also, fwiw, he did a lot with his friends' greek (semi-greek, really) houses ... including hanging out with the guy who married Sparky and her DH.

I just finished my chicken feta pita.

NOM NOM NOM. Wanting more.

I'm hungry. a snack-pack of goldfish and a lean pocket is what I'm looking at today.

I'm making eggplant parmesean tonight though.

I'm quite firmly anti-Greek, based on being non-Greek at a school where about 60% of the student body was Greek, and where all the student organizations (except the newspaper) were run by Greeks. (Is it any shock I was on the staff of the paper?)

This sounds like my school too. The newspaper, radio and literary mag people tended to be GDIs (God damned independents), but student government was heavily Greek.

I'm making eggplant parmesean tonight though.

What time is dinner?

I'll be waiting for furniture deliveries -- which I'm just about on my way out the door to begin that 6 hour vigil -- so my dinner will probably be delivered by the pizza place.

For those that light candles tonight, Happy Hannukah!

At my school, IIRC 30% of the men and 10% of the women were in the Greek system. Which was just enough for them, especially the frat boys, to think that the world of the campus revolved around them, but the rest of us just rolled our eyes and pursued our own social lives and interests.

furniture-delivery-ma Sparky!

and Gas-Dryer ma for those as needs it too.