Alix Earle built her whole brand on being relatable, and that's exactly why her "sorority nightmare" content hits the way it does. When someone with millions of followers talks about Greek life going wrong, people listen. They share it. They screenshot it. And somewhere in that cycle, the actual conversation about what Greek life is - and what it should be - gets completely buried under the performance of it all.
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BigLittleReveal is one of best days of a new member’s sorority career. They literally get a whole new family. There are generally two ways for a bigs/g-bigs to have this special day play out for their new little. Many choose to go with the traditional reveal strategy of “less dress cute and take girly pictures of us hugging”. Then there’s the “let’s make this as fun and silly of an experience as possible” approach. Let’s celebrate the girls who chose to get weird with it in fall 2016....
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Sororities aren’t just an American phenomenon anymore… if you thought every cute sorority girl was from the U S of A then look no further for evidence to the contrary! Though they may be few, they are definitely mighty! We've already highlighted some of the cutest American pledges the South,West, or Midwest...let's see how their sisters to the north stack up. ...
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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 year, thousands of students walk into recruitment week thinking they've done their research. They watched the videos, scrolled the Instagram accounts, maybe even stalked the chapter rankings. And then day one hits and it is nothing - absolutely nothing - like what they expected. I've sat on Panhellenic council. I've watched the process from both sides of the door. The gap between what recruitment looks like online and what it actually feels like in person is embarrassing, and somebody needs to say it plainly.
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The Clarion-Ledger ran a photo spread this week from Ole Miss sorority bid day 2026, and if you scrolled through it without feeling something, I don't know what to tell you. There's something about bid day photos from a school like Ole Miss - where Greek life isn't just a thing, it's basically the culture - that cuts right through all the noise we usually hear about whether Greek life is worth it anymore.
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Virginia Commonwealth University just suspended a fraternity over hazing and assault allegations, and if you've spent any time around Greek life, you already know the basic shape of this story. Another chapter, another investigation, another university forced to act publicly on something that was probably an open secret for a while. It's not surprising. That's kind of the problem.
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There's a type of alumni event guest who shows up before the actives do, knows where the good snacks are hidden, and somehow ends up in every group photo. She graduated four years ago. Maybe six. And she is always there. Not in a mentorship way. Not in a "I'm chaperoning this for liability reasons" way. Just... there. Camped out like she never left.
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When I was in school, the worst internal conflict my chapter ever had was a heated argument over whether to get a foosball table or fix the back porch railing. We voted on it. Someone's feelings got hurt. We moved on. Nobody called a lawyer. Alpha Phi Delta apparently did not have that luxury, because the fraternity just filed a lawsuit against Greek housing organizations - and that's a sentence I did not expect to read on a Tuesday.
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Junior year, I had a thermodynamics exam on a Tuesday and hadn't slept more than four hours in three days. I was ready to just grind it out alone in the library like I always did freshman year - before I joined. Then my brother Marcus, a mechanical engineering senior, sat down next to me at the chapter house kitchen table at 10 PM and said, "You're doing the energy balance wrong." Two hours later I actually understood it. Passed that exam. And I remember thinking - this is literally what the whole thing is supposed to be for.<
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