Being a part of a Greek group on campus comes with the special privilege of living with your fraternity brothers or sorority sisters after your freshman year. We here at The Pioneer have taken the liberty of doing some investigative reporting on living in a fraternity house and a sorority section.

Both spaces give you a chance to develop some independence as you continue to fool yourself into thinking you are an adult. Fraternity houses are off-campus and largely unsupervised by Whitman staff, so members are given the opportunity to independently maintain the impeccable cleanliness of their houses, apply themselves to their rigorous course loads and throw tame, respectable social gatherings in the confines of their own home. Sorority women experience a similarly exhilarating sense of independence every time they punch the code into their dorm bathroom or receive a third strike on quiet hours from the RAs.

Greek life living also allows you to have some real autonomy over the space in which you live. Fraternity members are finally allowed the rare opportunity of a male-dominated space in this world where they can grow as individuals and brothers surrounded by male energy and mysterious carpet stains. Sorority members say they feel a similar level of autonomy when RAs dump out their alcohol and spam the Prentiss listserv with reminders of delightfully mind-numbing activities like cookies and bedtime stories or chastity belt decorating.

Ultimately, sorority and fraternity living situations aren’t all that different from each other, especially in terms of the rules and safety regulations applied to the different organizations. For example, fraternity houses often become public spaces where the doors are left open for students, community members, animals, and frat stars who should have graduated by now to enter. It’s pretty much the same in Prentiss, except if you prop the door open for too long you get a 20 dollar fine. So go ahead, take a risk, live with your sorority or fraternity members and get a taste of a carefully constructed false sense of freedom for a few years.