• The Ingredients for a Frat Party

    The Ingredients for a Frat Party

    As a senior member of Greek life, I consider myself an expert in the art of the frat party. I’ve been to countless rush parties, grab-a-dates and semi-formals during my college career and I’ve assembled the crucial elements to create a typical frat party. So gather round students and listen up as I go through the essential ingredients to have the ultimate (and ultimate, I mean typical) frat party.

  • Greek Speak: Formal Stress

    Greek Speak: Formal Stress

    It’s finals week and snowing here in the Midwest; what a lovely combination. I can’t think of a better way to take a study break than to snuggle up by the fireplace with a few pledge sisters and talk about our upcoming winter formal… the reason why I return to school second semester every year… the highlight of January!

  • Greek Speak: The Best and Worst Theme Parties Ever

    Greek Speak: The Best and Worst Theme Parties Ever

    If there’s one thing a sorority woman knows (besides the names of all her founding sisters/the words to every rush song/the rules to scoring the best room in the house) it’s a theme party. I don’t know if it’s in the official rules of Greek Life but sororities/fraternities and theme parties go together like cheating spouses and Hollywood.

  • The Sober One

    The Sober One

    Yeah, I know. I’m from a city that has more bars than traffic lights and go to a school that was ranked number one on Playboy’s list of top party schools, yet I don’t drink. Or party – in the traditional sense, anyway.

  • We’ve All Been There: The Frat House Bathroom

    We’ve All Been There: The Frat House Bathroom

    Finally, it’s your turn. You and your friend run into the bathroom and lock the door behind you. Your friend holds your purse and fixes her hair as you attempt to hover over the seat-less bowl. You pray to the gods above that your legs don’t give out; who knows what sort of diseases lurk in the stains that litter the bowl.