Almost no one voted. No one cares. And frankly, neither do I. This topic was a total cop-out.
But this week is better. Honest.
This week's poll is about sororities and fraternities. Vote here. But first, read this interesting New York Times article about a sorority at DePauw University in Indiana.
FYI:
- I almost went to school at DePauw. No, really.
- DePauw's most famous alumnus is former Vice President Dan Quayle.
- When I visited the campus during my senior year of high school, I stayed at the Delta Zeta house.
- The girls seemed very nice, and made me rethink my preconceived notions about sorority girls.
- In retrospect, Greencastle, Indiana was very very boring, and I understood why everyone -- or at least 90% of the student population -- went Greek.
- I eventually went to a different university and joined a different sorority.
- Once I graduated, I pretty much stopped talking to all of my sorority sisters. Of course this was after one particular sister -- who I was friends with since high school -- decided to make out with a guy I was dating in front of me.
5 comments:
I must have missed the day you announced the Oscar one. I love David Letterman!
Hah! You were a Greek?!? I tried to rush, but my facial muscles got tired of fake smiling. Also my liver needed a break.
That poll would have worked better if we'd been able to vote for more than one. Anyway, I guess I can't see you in the stereotypical sorority but I know that there are a lot of different kinds that attract different kinds of people.
Scarlet: I think Letterman was a vastly underrated Oscar host.
Evil Spock: I was a Greek. But in retrospect, I was too young to know any better (see below). Plus, the sorority really liked the fact that I significantly brought up their G.P.A.
DSL: I have it set so you can vote an unlimited amount of times, because stuffing the ballot box makes the electoral process more random -- and therefore, more fun.
And yes, I was in a stereotypical cliche sorority. We wore school color bows in our ponytails to football games and letter shirts to classes, and pretended to like each other while bitching about each other to everyone that would listen (and apparently, tried to steal each other's boyfriends). But in my defense, I was a completely different person back then and didn't really know any better. For example, my sorority sister/roommate and I fought over whether Real Genius or Top Gun was the better Val Kilmer movie, when everyone knows that The Doors is his finest work.
In other words, I was a dumb teenager.
And, for the record, this was also during the same time frame that I got engaged.
Dumb.
I was never in a sorority but I agree with you about the Val Kilmer thing.
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