• Menu
  • Skip to right header navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary navigation
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

College Magazine

College Life, Dating, Career & Campus Advice

  • Colleges
    • College Guides
    • College Rankings
    • Campus Life
      • Academics
      • Dating
      • Freshman Year
      • Health
      • Social Change
      • Party
  • Majors
    • All Majors
    • Most Popular Majors
    • Choosing a Major
  • Intern
    • Internship Directory
    • How to Get an Internship
    • How to Write a Resume
    • How to Write a Cover Letter
    • How to Interview
    • How to Network
    • Career 101
    • Find Your Passion Career
  • Money
    • How to Make Money
    • How to Save Money
    • How to Get a Job
    • Credit Cards 101
    • FAFSA
    • Ramen Project
  • Travel
    • Study Abroad
    • College Spring Break
    • How to Travel Cheap
    • Things to Do
  • Shop
    • Writer Course
    • College Magazine Shop
    • Gift Guides
    • College Packing List
  • Find your college or university
  • Colleges
    • College Guides
    • College Rankings
    • Campus Life
      • Academics
      • Dating
      • Freshman Year
      • Health
      • Social Change
      • Party
  • Majors
    • All Majors
    • Most Popular Majors
    • Choosing a Major
  • Intern
    • Internship Directory
    • How to Get an Internship
    • How to Write a Resume
    • How to Write a Cover Letter
    • How to Interview
    • How to Network
    • Career 101
    • Find Your Passion Career
  • Money
    • How to Make Money
    • How to Save Money
    • How to Get a Job
    • Credit Cards 101
    • FAFSA
    • Ramen Project
  • Travel
    • Study Abroad
    • College Spring Break
    • How to Travel Cheap
    • Things to Do
  • Shop
    • Writer Course
    • College Magazine Shop
    • Gift Guides
    • College Packing List
  • Find your college or university
  • About Us
  • Team
  • Write
  • Apply
  • Privacy Policy
  • Sign Up
  • Advertise
  • My Account
  • Cart

You are here: Home / Life / Living with 49 Women

Living with 49 Women

August 29, 2016 //  by Kirstin Redfield

Shares104FacebookTweet

Men’s most vivid dreams involve multiple women living under one roof, walking around in their nightgowns while constantly starting pillow fights (a fascination I still don’t understand). In the morning, they usually wake up and instantly become disappointed once they look to their right and see their 10-year-old Beagle drooling on the pillow.

News flash: women who reside in the same home don’t start pillow fights. While we walk around in our pajamas from time to time, we honestly look extremely rough majority of the day. I’m fully aware of the truths and lies regarding living with multiple women because I live in a sorority house.

I tend to get an array of responses when I inform people of my living inside a sorority house. Retorts include, “Wait, what?” “Oh wow.” “Do you have to share a bathroom?” “How do you ever get any sleep?” My replies comprise of, “Yep.” “Yep.” “I sleep plenty.”

Let me add that living in a sorority house doesn’t look anything like House Bunny. We don’t all sit down at a long, mirror-supplied table and apply our makeup at the same time. Nor do we run a daily car wash for local fraternity men. While Anna Faris plays a hilarious role within that movie, the scenes dramatize sorority house-life way too much. Basically any movies surrounding Greek life portray it all wrong.

First off, the 49 women (including myself) living inside my sorority house do not all live on one floor. Can you imagine the body heat flowing throughout that hallway? Disgusting. Two floors separate us, but our gathering place deemed “the day beds” unite us all back together—especially when The Bachelor starts playing. How many sorority women can you fit on two U-shaped couches? Well, 49. We don’t play when it comes to catching up on who got the boot and who got a rose.

As far as bathrooms go, my roommate and I share a shower, sink and commode with our suitemates. While we do have a group text to clarify everyone’s shower times, sharing a bathroom doesn’t suck as much as you’d think. Sharing is caring, people. Brushing my teeth next to my roommate while she tries on her new lipstick gets placed on the very bottom of my “to worry about” list. Tests, interviews and my pants becoming too small take top priority of my worries.

The bedroom sizes vary within my house. While some rooms accommodate three women, most allow for two. Some rooms offer enough space for beds to maintain a good distance from one another, and others offer zero space in between beds. My roommate and I hold hands every night just because we can. Our beds have created a very strong bond, so cute actually. We each get our own desk, closet and dresser. Actually, let me correct myself. We each get our own desk and dresser, but we honestly share 47 other closets.

While living in a sorority house surely doesn’t attract every woman, I’m forever grateful I made my chapter a physical home. Constantly being surrounded by motivational, strong women encourages me to strive for more. Waking up and walking down the hall, I’ll notice my sisters putting on dress pants in preparation for their interview in an hour. Or when I walk into the kitchen for my morning coffee, I witness a sister heavily studying for the MCAT. Slowly but surely, my sisters shape me into a better woman. From the convenience to the comfort of living in my sorority house, I wouldn’t change a thing. I already have such strong bonds with each of my sisters, but living under one roof causes bonds to become more and more powerful.

Whether passing each other in the hallway, sitting down to eat flank steak and mashed potatoes (yum) or laughing hysterically about nothing, a constant positive vibe circulates throughout the house.

But oh man, if these walls could talk, they’d have some stories to tell. Well, if you enjoy hearing stories about boys who confess their love to you, only to find out they were just seen outside of Clyde’s with another girl.

Shares104FacebookTweet

Filed Under: Greek Life Life

About Kirstin Redfield

Senior at Florida State University studying Editing, Writing and Media. Lover of good lighting and Nicholas Sparks. Small town girl with a big city mindset.

You May Also Like

songs to belt out

21 Songs to Belt Out in the Shower

Top 10 Weird Scholarships You Can’t Miss

cultural identity and language

Language Abilities Don’t Define Your Cultural Identity, Unless?

How I Turned My Personal Journals into a Published Book

15 Alcohol-Free Activities for a Friday Night In

Reflecting on Fall 2020: How to Recover from One of the Hardest Semesters

How to Make Money From Home Without Taking Off Your PJs

15 COVID-19 Safe Ways to Celebrate the Holidays in 2020

Top 10 COVID-19 Safe Activities to Do Near Fresno, California

Breaking the Binary: My Journey into Identifying as Non-Binary

The Döner Project: My Berlin Budget as a College Student

CM’s Guide to the Print and Digital Journalism Major

Away from Home and Feeling Gross: Being Sick My Freshman Year

A Tale of Two Twin Flames

movies to binge over winter break

Battling Boredom: 10 Movies to Binge Over Winter Break

Being an Asian-American: Learning to Accept Both Halves of Myself

How to Become a Published Poet

ADHD or the Enemy? At Least My College Helped Me

berkeley outdoors

10 COVID-19 Friendly Things to Do in Berkeley, California

Top 10 DIY Gifts for Your BFF

Christmas

10 Gifts For Parents That They Want But Haven’t Asked For

friend group dressed up as Big Hero Six characters

Animation Nerds Unite: 10 Gifts for Animation Lovers

gifts for your girl squad

10 Gifts Your Girl Squad Can’t Live Without

10 Virtual Gifts for Your BFF that Will Make Them Love You Forever

Previous Post: « Top 10 Colleges For Studying Abroad
Next Post: Enter to Win a Pride & Prejudice Tapestry! »

Primary Sidebar



Trending Posts

102

10 St. John’s University Finals Activities to Help You De-Stress

mental health
95

Pandemic and Academic Blues: Being Aware of Your Mental Health

68

Top 10 Colleges With the Most Fashionable Students

Broadway
25

10 Musical Soundtracks to Make Study Sessions That Much Easier

23

A Gator’s Bucket-List: 21 Things to Do Before Graduating From UF

Featured Chapter: St. John’s University

Footer

logo

College Magazine is the national daily guide to campus life. Our articles for college students feature university rankings of U.S. colleges, college guides, academic advice, college prep, career advice, student health and collegiate dating tips.

Written by students for students, by a team of journalists from universities nationwide, we’re on the pulse of the college experience.

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • RSS
  • Twitter

Colleges

  • College Guides
  • College Rankings
  • Campus life
  • Academics
  • Dating
  • Freshmen Year
  • Health
  • Party

Majors

  • All College Majors
  • Most Popular Majors
  • Choosing a Major

Intern

  • Internships Directory
  • How to Write a Resume
  • How to Write a Cover Letter
  • How to Interview
  • How to Get an Internship
  • How to Network

Money

  • How to Make Money
  • How to Save Money
  • How to Get a Job
  • Credit Cards 101
  • College Loans

Travel

  • Study Abroad
  • College Spring Break
  • How to Travel Cheap
  • Things to Do

Shop

  • College Packing List
  • Gift Guides
  • About Us
  • Team
  • Write
  • Apply
  • Privacy Policy
  • Sign Up
  • Advertise
  • My Account
  • Cart

Copyright © 2021 College Magazine · All Rights Reserved · Powered by BizBudding Inc.