Tons of companies started out in collegiate dorm rooms on budgets of nothing. And look at them now -- Facebook, Google, Microsoft -- powerhouses of the tech industry. All it takes is a little (or a lot) of ingenuity, hard work, ambition, and perhaps eventually, a bit of venture capital. These 10 startups were built by college students and if you haven’t heard of them yet, keep a look out. ...
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Whoever said sorority girls are not artsy certainly did not know what they were talking about. If you want to see a showcase of artistic skills in Greek Life, check out sorority paddles! Sorority paddles are gifts in Greek Life that littles give their bigs or bigs give their littles as a sign of their bond and sisterhood within the sorority. Sometimes the paddle has a theme that links the sisters – something they have in common besides the sorority. Other times they’re just made to be absolutely cute and connect the sisters through their aesthetic tastes. The tradition of the paddles dates pretty far back, but these days the décor of them is certainly crafty and upscale. I’ve searched the internet and brought you the 15 best sorority paddles!...
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You have made one of the biggest decisions of your life to go to college. Congratulations! However, that’s not the only decision that you’ll have to make when it comes to college life. Another important decision that you’ll probably make is the decision to go Greek in college.
Greek life has lots of benefits to offer to its members – opportunities to build a network, social/community activities to participate in, a strong brotherhood bond to maintain, and many more! However, one of the biggest challenges college guys face at the beginning of their Greek life is choosing the right fraternity for themselves....
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Every recruitment cycle, Panhellenic councils across the country send out the same reminders. No contact with PNMs outside of official events. No social media DMs. No invitations to chapter houses during formal recruitment. No gifts. The rules exist in writing, they get reviewed at officer training, and chapters sign off on them every single year. And then recruitment starts, and some of those same chapters immediately start breaking them.
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A writer over at The Miami Hurricane just said what a lot of people in Greek life won't: she'd never go through sorority recruitment again. Not for anything. And honestly, reading that piece hit different than I expected, because she's not wrong about the hard parts - and I think guys in IFC spaces need to sit with that for a second instead of just scrolling past it.
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Every chapter has one. A handful of alumni who show up to meetings occasionally, send emails nobody reads, and get eye-rolled the second they leave the room. I was absolutely that active member who thought the advisory board was just a formality - a box the national organization made us check. And then I graduated, started watching from the outside, and realized we had no idea what we were throwing away.
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Nobody walks into a chapter meeting fired up about GPA plaques. I get it. You've got ritual, you've got brotherhood, you've got a hundred other things competing for your attention. But I've watched chapters let their academic standing slide for years running, brush it off as a non-issue, and then act surprised when the university starts breathing down their necks. The award thing isn't just a plaque. It's a signal - and right now, a lot of chapters are sending the wrong one.
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Eastern Michigan University is gearing up for Greek Week, and honestly, my first reaction was something like relief. Not because Greek Week is some perfectly run machine - it never is - but because it still exists. Because chapters are still showing up for it. Because someone over in Fraternity and Sorority Life at EMU is still doing the work to make it happen.
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Homecoming week is the one time a year when the whole Greek community collectively decides sleep is optional and chapter points are everything. And honestly? I don't regret a single exhausted Tuesday morning because of it. Four years of homecoming with my fraternity gave me some of my clearest, loudest, most chaotic memories from college - and I think that's kind of the point.
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Every recruitment cycle, I watched the same argument play out in Panhellenic meetings. Someone would push for tighter values-based criteria - structured conversations, consistent evaluation rubrics, documented reasoning for cuts - and at least two chapter presidents would roll their eyes like we'd just proposed banning bid day entirely. And every single time, those same chapters were the ones filing grade appeals or showing up to standards hearings six months later. That pattern is not a coincidence.
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