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WARNING!! THIS BLOG POST DOES CONTAIN SPOILERS!!! IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE MOVIE YET GO DO THAT BEFORE READING THIS!!! So everybody’s been raving about the movie Frozen, and after finally watching it: I totally am too. One of the major things that everyone loves about Frozen, is that it promotes ‘girl power’. AKA the idea that you don’t need to spend your entire life looking for a man just to be happy.  More specifically, in my opinion, it tells you that you don’t need a man when you have a sister. Or  sisters. Or idk sorority sisters. (Or if you never went Greek, friends that are like sisters) In any case, it tells you that as long as you have each other, you don’t need a man (they’re just an added bonus if you find the right one) I think that’s a very important point. Why, as sorority women (or women in general), should we spend  so much time searching for ‘the one’. (And then possibly fighting with each other when we think we’ve found him, and our sisters ei...

So I go through this stage quite frequently.  I give 110% to something, but then forget to make sure to take care of myself at the same time. So I grow exhausted and unproductive. Then I hate that I'm being unproductive and try to force myself to keep trekking. But that just increases the exhaustion and lack of productivity until it reaches 0%. Then I crash, recuperate, and start the cycle all over again. I think a lot of people in today's world face similar stages. Though all at different rates.  Currently, I reached that burnout stage again. Which has definitely decreased my productivity. I mean, I went from 2 blog posts a week to well... none last week. I think the Burnout Stage is a problem we have in Western Civilization where we need to remember how to slow down, take a break, and enjoy the moment.  So, I decided to try the #100HappyDays challenge, and I'll go into more detail about my progress with it in different blog posts, but starting out right now I...

So with Valentine's Day having just passed, love is in the air. This post is dedicated to the question I got asked throughout college. "Why don't you ever date ' frat boys' "? Well, my answer is simple.  And comes in two parts.  1. Most of the time in college  I had my sights set on only one guy  ( my boyfriend) who I've known forever.  And no he wasn't (and isn't) Greek.  Scandalous I know. 2. For the rare periods of time that  I was single and ready to mingle,  I had some rules. First of all,  I was over dating 'boys'. High School  was over, and I'd raised my standards  with my age.      Now, I didn't have anything against  guys in fraternities; I just wasn't about  to date anyone that acted like a child  (fraternity or not). I had grown up, I'd  seen the way I felt guys were supposed  to act towards their women, and I wasn't  going to settle for anything less.    ...

Once you get to know me you learn one very important fact: I have the biggest woman crush on Jennifer Lawrence. For so, so many reasons.  1. We would totally be friends in real life. In fact, I would totally try to recruit her into my sorority. Then I'd want her in my fam. Actually, she kind of reminds me of my big. 2. She makes awkward cool. I'm not always the most put together person. I like to make funny faces, and I sometimes say things at the exact wrong time. I once talked to a girl during recruitment about how I had 'chimpanzee hands'. (My hands are really tiny, and my thumbs are kinda short). Luckily, she still thought I was pretty cool (or so my little tells me). Good news is: JLaw can be really inappropriate at times too. And she makes it okay. 3. Girl knows how to eat.      (This is where this post gets serious.) In High School I suffered from anorexia nervosa. There was a lot going on in my life at the time, and I think it was in part lashing out a...

      With Formal Recruitment reaching it's close at my alma mater, so many memories are coming back yet again. What better way to start a sorority blog than with the story of how I joined my sorority. Enjoy!      I remember going through Recruitment not that long ago. Just a couple of years really. I remember being really nervous and stressed out. Thinking ‘what if they don’t like me?’ ‘What if I say something stupid?’ ‘What if I have a bad hair day?’ ‘What am I going to wear??’ It felt like the first day of High School all over again. Only worse.       My High School was pretty small. 200 to 300 kids per grade, and within each grade everyone knew each other. We’d all grown up together. For the most part we’d all been in the same school since 6th grade. Coming to a big school like Rutgers was a huge transition for me.       College to me was a brand new start. A start that had one real requirement: join a soro...