Greek students

I work on a campus at a school with a large percentage of its students in the Greek system.

Let me give you MY view of these people. **Not Subway's

The frat boys are usually pretty bulky (they came back all "juiced" after the last summer, mostly their arms), similar hair cuts, cut off t-shirts/tank tops, and similar attitudes: brazen, boisterous, and/or charming. These boys LOVE to flirt. It's a win-win in my book.

Most of them have ass hole tendencies but are generally polite and mean well. It's when they're in large groups that they become less tolerable.

As is the case with the sorority girls (kind of)...

These girls are very easy to pick out of a crowd at our school. Their typical outfit is bundled up top (various layers of tanktops with an obnoxious bra color underneath, a cute sweater, or a North Face jacket) and leggings or very short shorts/skirts depending on the season. They're either in hard sandals or in UGG boots. Their hair is either dirty blonde with roots or very brunette--rare to find any other hair colors. Their hair will also either be straight as a board or worn curly, either way it's kept very long so that it can-at some point-become a messy, half-secured bun on top of their head.

Are you getting a good mental picture now?

These girls have manners... somewhere, deeeep down.

They travel in packs. They talk loudly, laugh loudly, are glued to their cell phones, and hardly pay attention because they are constantly having a conversation that isn't worth pausing. When they're by themselves they act like you're wasting their time and are very entitled, grumpy, flighty, and rude.

I THINK that they are like this because, I'm assuming, that they don't have actual tough labor jobs, if a job at all. I know they do philanthropy and what not through their houses but for the most part I'm pretty sure Mommy and Daddy pay for them to go to school and live out of state in a Greek house.

Please let me clarify, I don't know if every single girl/guy I encounter who is like this is in fact in a sorority/fraternity. I am doing this thing called generalizing based on what my staff and I have observed through the past year of working on this campus (and, for me, the past 16 years of living in this town).

There comes to be a time, after a certain amount of work you put into a place, where you notice patterns in people and customers. Considering because of our location we hardly get any non-IU affiliated business, I feel like our observations are pretty accurate, but again, that's just my opinion.

There's a lot more to say about these people but I can save that for another post. For now, just know that these Greek students are a large amount of customer base and without them we would lose a few thousand dollars every week, which is why we tolerate them and put on nice faces (besides the fact that we have to).