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" When you think of college living there&amp;#039;s usually three choices: dorms, apartment, or Greek life. Here at Carolina we have a really, really nice Greek Village with grandiose houses and big lawns, but when it came down to it - going Greek just wasn&amp;#039;t for me. So, the three reasons I didn&amp;#039;t join a sorority? Preconceived Notions. While I&amp;#039;m not saying all of the rumors (the partying, &amp;quot;buying&amp;quot; friends, that it&amp;#039;s essentially a popularity contest) are what goes on behind the closed doors of the Greek, it&amp;#039;s hard to not see some truth in these wide-spread notions. Of course I shouldn&amp;#039;t automatically assume, but there are definitely those sororities and fraternities that DO fit in the category. At the same time, there are others that defy their &amp;quot;bad&amp;quot; reputation.Regardless,I wasn&amp;#039;t a fan of gaining ANY Greek rep.  Dressing the Same. Walk around campus any day of the week and you&amp;#039;ll see at least one or two sororities or fraternities in groups. How do you recognize them? They match all the time! Whether it&amp;#039;s the orange hats for the guys or any of the dozens of shirts with Greek letters for the girls, you certainly can&amp;#039;t miss the cookie-cutter copies. If it&amp;#039;s a tight-knit group of people you&amp;#039;re looking for, then Greek life might be for you, but I&amp;#039;m definitely someone who needs change every once in a while...and I can&amp;#039;t say I like playing look-alike. Dorm Life. Lastly, and most important in my decision against rushing, is the dorm life, which I&amp;#039;ve grown to love so much. I&amp;#039;m surrounded by dorm-mates, some of whom have become my best friends here. I&amp;#039;ve got my guy friends and my girl friends (as compared to the single-sex Greek houses) and I feel like I was able to meet these people and make friends out of them on my own. But in reality, going Greek is definitely something a lot of people love. There are tons of different kinds, even ones for musicians or community service, but in the end, it just was not for me.  Best Wishes, Alex "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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