What were your best memories of living in your house?

[GammaPhi88]

I just found out that I'm living in my sorority house next year! I couldn't be more excited, and I was wondering...would y'all like to share your best memories of living in?


EDIT: Typo, sorry. I'm living in NEXT year!

[KSUViolet06]

*Coming home from going out, sitting in the kitchen and eating dollar pizza we got from downtown.

*Sitting in the kitchen on Friday mornings and getting the 'recap' on everything that happened Thursday night.

*Living in at the same time as my Big Sis, Twin Sis, and Triplet. Fun times.

*Midnight Taco Bell trips.

*Knowing that no matter what time I got home, someone was going to be up for me to talk to.

[alphagamzetagam]

I loved it when the crazy alumnae came back and crashed on our couches. Sometimes I'd come downstairs after heading to bed kinda early, and there'd be 3 or 4 of them sprawled out all over the place.

I also lived across the hall from my sister-mother, and down the hall from one of my very best friends. We ended up all living together off campus the next year, my brother met my friend and fell in love, and now they're married.:)

We had a great porch with a swing. A sister and I sat out on that swing for 11 hours one Saturday. We only got up to go to McDonalds. The greatest part was that people would walk by, stop and talk to us for a while, then come back later in the day hoping we were still out there.

The best part of living in the house, though, was that I didn't have to get ready early for stuff. We only had 9 people in the house, everyone else had to come over for stuff. So I could start getting ready about 20 minutes before (if I didn't have to shower or do my hair) and I'd be ready just in time to go downstairs and meet everyone!

[jessica.lanelle]

We did not have a house :(

[Elephant Walk]

The morning after the big party.

Everyone's hung over sitting downstairs still pretty drunk recounting and embellishing the nights events.

[Kansas City]

We had an all sorority dorm. I loved meeting in our hallway to rally before a mixer or event. We were on the third floor so noises always carried downward. We'd sing and chant and generally make lots and lots of noise so that the other chapters knew what fun we were about to have!

[Benzgirl]

Raids!

[33girl]

The morning after the big party.

Everyone's hung over sitting downstairs still pretty drunk recounting and embellishing the nights events.

yup, that was the best.

Watching soaps together, borrowing clothes...basically all the little day to day things are the best memories, just as much if not more than the big events.

[CarolinaCutie]

Hate to say this because it wasn't OK then and it's certainly not OK now, but pregaming to go out! You almost had more fun getting ready than you did at the actual party. Also- skipping class on Friday morning after a night out and laying around outside.

I also still love the morning-after recaps, Elephant Walk. I do it with my roommates now but it's not the same as having everyone all together.

I also was someone who could study easily with noise/others around. Studying for finals was always fun and productive at the same time!

[SigKapSweetie]

The little stuff was the best.

Studying until 2AM in the dining room with my little sister and laughing when the Papa Johns could never get her very specific pizza order right.

Sitting on the porch swing with my other little sister for two hours one night because she needed a sympathetic ear.

Doing cartwheels and handstands in the formal living room every year after the furniture was removed for rush.

Sitting in the upstairs lounge, staying awake to chat and giggle until the sun came up.

Having impromptu slumber parties with the girls next door, even though my room was only 3 feet away.

Always being up on the news/gossip about boyfriends and greek stuff.

V-E-R-Y late night trips to Wal-mart because I smudged the paint on my lil sis's Shoe Hunt shoe and it had to be perfect for big sis revealing! (Wal-mart employees give you strange looks when you buy baby shoes at 3 in the morning!)

[Elephant Walk]

I also was someone who could study easily with noise/others around. Studying for finals was always fun and productive at the same time!

I realize that I can't live somewhere quiet after living in the house. It drives me crazy.

I don't know what I'm going to do when I graduate.

[WVU alpha phi]

I have the greatest memories from living in the house, it was definitely my greatest year of college.

-Always having someone to go out with (or have a mellow night with) no matter what night of the week.

-Becoming close friends with girls from other pledge classes that you didn't know that well.

-The Nip/Tuck multiple season marathon we decided to have during finals week fall semester. We would all watch together, stop when someone had to leave for an exam, and start back up again when they got back. We'd stay up until all hours of the night until we finished all the seasons we had rented.

-Borrowing clothes (I STRONGLY suggest getting your borrowed clothes back the next day, even if that means you having to wash them. I can't count how many clothes I lost from living in the house.)

-Friday morning recaps, girls rolling in from the night before, picking girls up from spending the night out, etc.

-Always being the first to know house/greek gossip.

[APhiAnna]

Easily the best is the morning after a party night where everybody is sprawled out hungover in the TV room telling stories and watching girls come back to the house. I also loved getting ready for a theme party or mixer when everybody is running around laughing at each others costumes. Love the late-night food raids in the kitchen, getting to know random girls really well that you wouldn't have guessed you would get along with, the silly days/nights where we'd have silly string fights or fill up water balloons...one night a girl in our chapter got the idea to make ghost costumes out of sheets and go "haunt" our favorite fraternity. Just being in on all the stupid stuff like that.

[LoggerTheta]

It really is the little things! I lived in my chapter house for three years (Sophomore, Junior, and Senior), and I miss it SO much.


* Tooth brushing parties in the morning (I was a lab science major, and so was a large contingent of my house, so we frequently had early [read: 8:00 am] morning classes *ew*)

* Piling into the living room to watch Gray's Anatomy every week.

* Stopping to talk to someone in the hall, and all of a sudden there are 5 of us.

* Not having to go anywhere for chapter!

* Singing Theta songs while showering... with other showering Thetas.

* Having a place to go home to.

[KSUViolet06]

*Having a bad day, coming home, and having 15 other people to complain to as soon as you walk in the door.

*When you REALLY need to talk to somebody (bad breakup, family problem), there's someone right upstairs with open ears.

*Getting ready to go out and playing "go out" music in the lounge while everyone's in the bathroom doing their hair.

*Always being the first people in the chapter to know stuff because we lived in the house.

*Not having to go anywhere for chapter meeting.

*Sitting around the kitchen and talking about EVERYTHING. We always said that if the kitchen could talk, we'd all be bribing it to keep quiet.

*If I wanted to go to Starbucks but didn't want to go alone, all I had to do is yell upstairs "Anybody wanna go to Starbucks?" and I had a car full of people to go with me.

*Around Big/Little time, sitting around all night working on gifts for our Littles.

[FSUZeta]

when the fraterities would come serenading.

singing songs at dinner.

always having someone to hang out with.

watching "the wizard of oz" with all the other house sisters crammed into our lanai-where the house t.v. was.

finding interesting and unexpected things on our sun deck-from boys trying to "raid" the house, to the head of the roasted pig from fiji islander.

[nittanyalum]

We lived on chapter-only floors in the dorms and had a chapter suite downstairs, I too enjoyed the 'your closet on steroids' effect by having very quick access to so many other wardrobe possibilities; gathering in the hallways; piling into one of the big corner rooms for singing/dancing breaks during finals week; stringing the thread all around the floor (through the bathrooms, showers, stalls) for big/little reveal; hearing the pledges storming the hallway when they came to kidnap older sisters for their bolts; and only having to take the elevator downstairs for chapter rather than having to trudge across campus, at night, in the winter in the mountains of central PA. :)

[Cutie_Hootie]

-Saturday and Sunday morning brunch, where you could bring your boyfriend over and our cook made breakfast to order (along with a lot of commentary over the previous night's events).

-Never having to bundle up to go to Formal Dinner or Chapter

-Fraternity serenades

-Afternoon naps in the rack room (cold dorm) where it's quiet 24 hours a day.

-All the crazy pranks, inside jokes, and more that come from living with a group for so long.

-Always having someone to talk to, spend time with, or even run to Walmart with at 3 am.

[em_adpi]

- the time i burned cookies in the kitchen
- borrowing movies/clothes
- playing pranks on sisters
- having someone to talk to at all hours
- always having someone to eat with
- running errands with sisters
- sitting in the chapter room watching Project Runway
- sleepover in the chapter room... by accident haha
- painting stuff for littles
- random 90's dance parties on the second floor
- leaving notes on each other's door marker boards

*note, i wasn't a part of this one but i wish i could've been...
- mattress surfing in the stairwell

[APhiAnna]

Ohhhh almost forgot my favorite...when you have a date with a crush and all your sisters are running around helping you get ready and giving you advice...then when you get back everybody is camped out waiting for the scoop! So fun.

[violetpretty]

*General activity level---I don't like quiet
*Borrowing/lending clothes
*Getting 15 opinions on what shoes/top/etc to wear
*Doing your sisters' makeup/hair or getting yours done
*Going to the kitchen to get a cup of water and ending up talking to a sister for an hour
*Impromptu dance parties in my room
*Having a "soundtrack" with your roomie
*Singing in the shower (mostly Disney songs)
*My grandlittle giving me a hug every night before bed
*Witnessing hilarious drunk scenes when sober/having drunk sisters visit you while sober
*Coming home from the bar and making easy mac
*Developing slang exclusive to your end of the hall
*Heart to hearts
*Gushing about the guys in your life
*Always having someone to vent stupid boy drama to, and knowing your sisters will be behind you
*Fraternity serenades
*Staying up til 2 am watching food network and family guy reruns with my roomie
*Getting to know sisters that you might not be close with otherwise
*Being around when new members come to visit
*Playing silly pranks
*Facebooking with sisters for hours
*I like a little bit of drama in my life:p

[LucyKKG]

We don't have a house either but all of this stuff is getting me super stoked for this year! I'm living with a sister, and a bunch of other sisters are living together in various houses...oh man, it's gonna be fun.

[ZetaGirl22]

*Sitting in the kitchen after a night out, raiding the fridge for bagels and slices of cheese to put in the toaster, and gossiping about everyone's night
*Living with my big sis for 2 years, who ended up being the BEST roommate EVER
*Living across the hall from my grandbig sophomore year. That girl was a trip!
*If you didn't have something to wear, there was always someone who did
* 2nd floor vs 3rd floor battles
*fighting over whether to watch Dawsons Creek or 90210 in the TV room (yikes dating myself much)
*fraternity serenades
*getting ready with everyone for dated party/formal
*getting made fun of for singing Coldplay's "Yellow" in the shower every morning
*practicing serenading songs in the shower mornings during serenading season (yes, the words were laminated and in the shower stalls LOL)
*The PRANKS.................OMG we had so many. For some reason, our house were HUGE prank callers. I miss the 2AM prank call a thons SO much. Then there was the night sophomore year where 2 sisters who were roomies were gone at a fraternity dated party. We swapped EVERYTHING in their room while they were gone. Their beds, all the stuff on their desks, their posters, their closets, their dressers, EVERYTHING. It was awesome. Shouldve been up that night studying, but hey, we all get distracted. Then the last night in the house sophomore year. The few of us still there played Ouija board, read eachothers Tarot cards (LOL) and then decided to do dares. It turned into a night of TOTAL randomness. We found this UGLY yellow armchair next to the dumpster behind the house. We lugged it to the corner of Knox and set it down in front of Smoothie King and dared a sister to get on it and dance. And this was PRIME bar hour......LOL amazing. Then we left the chair on the front door of one of the fraternities, knocked and ran. Later, we ended up at the crush of one of our sister's off campus house, and in true Mary Katherine Gallagher style, wished them the best of luck in finals a la Superstar...................and papas fritas...........(inside joke LOL).....which brings me to...........................
* The inside jokes...................OMG there were so many that are unforgettable
Living in the house helped me create some of the best memories of my life. I lived in for 3 years and don't regret one single day of it!

[KSUViolet06]

*Watching Greys, Project Runway, Top Model, and such in the TV room.

*SERENADES. Sometimes they were a surprise and you didn't get to see them if you didn't live in unless you just happened to be there.

*Getting to be there when girls would go on first dates and getting all of the details. My roommate went on her first date with her now husband when we were living together in the house, and we were being so ridiculous when he came to pick her up, and like 2 of us camped out in the lounge til she got back so we could see how it went.

[CarolinaCutie]

* Singing Theta songs while showering... with other showering Thetas.

I forgot this! We used to call ourselves the All-Nude Phi Mu Revue... :o

[rufio]

pranks-- one time we boarded up a brothers room with dry wall and plaster. there's a video floating around facebook somewhere.

getting together to watch greek, nip tuck or lost.

having random people/sororities girls come over just to hang out.

and sunday movie night.

[LaneSig]

Sitting in the porch swing at 2 am, talking with a couple of brothers.

Climbing out on the roof to hang out.

Trying to figure out why Jim and Eric's room smelled so bad.

[Kansas City]

pranks-- one time we boarded up a brothers room with dry wall and plaster. there's a video floating around facebook somewhere.

Oh yeah, I forgot about the pranks! Again, in an all sorority suite style dorm, My roommate and I would sneak into our suite-mates room, steal all of her underwear and freeze it in her refrigerator. She would then wonder aloud to us why all of her panties were missing and complain that she had to do laundry every three days. :D

[ISUKappa]

I lived in the house for 3.5 years - from second semester freshman year until I graduated senior year.

- getting ready to go out - sitting on the floor to do makeup in the mirror in the hallway and listening to music blasting from someones' room

- waking up around 11 on Saturdays and Sundays and going down to the kitchen for some hangover food and a big mug of ice water and hearing about everyone's night

- Taking the Ouija board from room 14 and trying to contact Annie, the house ghost

- Coming in at 2 am from going out and ordering Pokey Stix or Jimmy Johns. Or, if we were in Campustown, eating a gyro, and hanging with everyone else coming home at that time

- Smokers socials - you always knew there was someone to go outside with you

- Crowding 20+ girls into the [small] tv room to watch Friends on a Thursday night (yes, I'm old)

- Serenades! Both giving them and receiving them

- Friday lunches of grilled cheese, tomato soup and brownies - especially during the winter

- The waiters!

It wasn't always perfect - I had pleny of hard times living in the house, too, but the good memories definitely outweigh the bad. I wish I would have appreciated it more when I was there.

[Scarlet]

- Coming in at 2 am from going out and ordering Pokey Stix or Jimmy Johns. Or, if we were in Campustown, eating a gyro, and hanging with everyone else coming home at that time

Oh my goodness, Pokey Stix! I just moved, and there's not a Gumby's anywhere around here at all! (sorry for the hijack)

[RU OX Alum]

- having a bike in the tree in the front lawn
- having pizza/delivery people know exactly who/where I am
- trading insults/compliments with room mates
- having pledges do the dishes/bathroom cleaning
- playing horse shoes while drinking cheap beer
- first hand account/view/heads up on things in the chapter (houses at my alma mater were just regular four-bedroom houses)
- the friendly spider who lived there
- not really doing anything in order to have a ton of people show up
- when my room mate tried to make pasta without water and it set off the smoke detectors and then we found him passed out in the bathroom

[LucyKKG]

I forgot this! We used to call ourselves the All-Nude Phi Mu Revue... :o
Hahah that made me crack up! That definitely sounds like something we'd do if we had a house...

We sang camp songs at Norwegian camp when we showered! Lol

[AlphaXi_Husky]

On our campus everyone is housed, so most people live in all four years. Many of my favorite memories are similar to those already posted.

- getting ready in the morning for school and at night to go out
- watching our favorite TV shows all together
- always having someone around to go study, get coffee, etc.
- during Recruitment having everyone live in and doing random sisterhood activities (particularly lip syncs)
- rooming with someone I didn’t know very well and becoming best friends with them
- dance parties in the hallways
- getting ready and helping others get ready for dates
- having ample closets to borrow from
- never feeling alone or lonely because someone was always there to talk to

[LoggerTheta]

Hahah that made me crack up! That definitely sounds like something we'd do if we had a house...

We sang camp songs at Norwegian camp when we showered! Lol

Hijak:

Funny story tangentially related to this. I worked at a Girl Scout camp for years, and one thing about being a counselor is that you only get to take showers on your days off, early in the morning, or late at night. So one of our staff members was from Iceland, and she chose to shower at night. She'd frequently sing Icelandic songs in the shower, until one week a camper came up to her and told her she thought the camp was haunted because she heard "weird singing" from the bath house at night.

/Hijak

[WVU alpha phi]

*Witnessing hilarious drunk scenes when sober/having drunk sisters visit you while sober
*Facebooking with sisters for hours



I definitely loved the drunk scenes when you're sober. Two REALLY stand out for me- once I was in my room on a Wednesday (a bar did karaoke Wednesday nights and it was really popular) when a sister came crawling into my room asking for "half an angel wing" because she has borrowed and broken an angel wing necklace from her roommate. Another would be my roommate coming home from Sig Ep jail party (dates are anonymous and have to drink a lot to find out who invited them!).. took her about 20 minutes of stumbling down 2 blocks to finally make it to the house, where she proceeded to do somersaults on our marble floors, tell a cop "I dont have a father" (?? not true!), and a lot more.

I perfected facebook stalking while living in the house.

[KSUViolet06]

*Hooking up Mario Party and Mario Kart 64 in the TV room just for kicks.

*Constant supply of junk food. Girls (or their parents) would sometimes bring baked goods over and just leave them for the house girls.

*Living on the same street as 4 other sororities and having girls talk to you randomly just walking down/up the street.

[GammaIota1009]

*Watching the golden girls with sisters in between class
*Homecoming
*Getting ready together for mixers and formals
*My suitemate/best friend sitting on the bathroom floor sharing secrets, crying, laughing together.
*Decorating the bathroom with a my size barbie, corn, beach accesory's, and drawing on the mirror with a dry erase marker.
*Studying in the chapter room
*Late nights after a party
*Always knowing what was going on
*The pranks we would pull on each other

The best year of my life!