The Aka Sorority
Essay 2: The AKA Sorority
As college students, myself being one of them, we have the opportunity to create a very diverse lifestyle for ourselves. College campuses offer a wide variety of extracurricular activities to gain college students’ attention. The reasoning behind this is to create each student into a well-rounded individual and prepare them for life ahead of them after college. University campuses put forward several activities, such as recognized student organizations (RSO), intramural sports, committees, sports, clubs, and last but not least fraternities and sororities; These can also be known as subcultures. Out of all of the aforementioned, fraternities and sororities are the most talked about and frenzied over. In high school I can remember girls saying what they were going to pledge when they got to college, as if they really knew what they were talking about. As I thought about what I would like to pledge, it became apparent on me that I knew nothing about pledging or even about any sorority at all. This discovery gave me a considerable incentive to write this paper when I discovered we would be writing about subcultures. I thought a sorority would be a god topic to talk about and a good way to educate myself from an outsider’s point of view. So this paper is like a two for one deal, in which I’m actually getting something out of writing this paper, and it gives me motive and an optimistic state of mind as I research this topic. I have decided to pick the sorority known as Alpha Kappa Alpha also known as AKA. I know very little about this sorority, except for the stereotypes, which indeed may turn out to be true, who knows. I am definitely interested in researching their history; I want to know where they originated and what their beliefs and principles may be. I’ve learned that sororities are about more than just the paraphernalia, the parties, and Greek letters. Sororities are about lifelong sisterhoods and tradition. I also
As college students, myself being one of them, we have the opportunity to create a very diverse lifestyle for ourselves. College campuses offer a wide variety of extracurricular activities to gain college students’ attention. The reasoning behind this is to create each student into a well-rounded individual and prepare them for life ahead of them after college. University campuses put forward several activities, such as recognized student organizations (RSO), intramural sports, committees, sports, clubs, and last but not least fraternities and sororities; These can also be known as subcultures. Out of all of the aforementioned, fraternities and sororities are the most talked about and frenzied over. In high school I can remember girls saying what they were going to pledge when they got to college, as if they really knew what they were talking about. As I thought about what I would like to pledge, it became apparent on me that I knew nothing about pledging or even about any sorority at all. This discovery gave me a considerable incentive to write this paper when I discovered we would be writing about subcultures. I thought a sorority would be a god topic to talk about and a good way to educate myself from an outsider’s point of view. So this paper is like a two for one deal, in which I’m actually getting something out of writing this paper, and it gives me motive and an optimistic state of mind as I research this topic. I have decided to pick the sorority known as Alpha Kappa Alpha also known as AKA. I know very little about this sorority, except for the stereotypes, which indeed may turn out to be true, who knows. I am definitely interested in researching their history; I want to know where they originated and what their beliefs and principles may be. I’ve learned that sororities are about more than just the paraphernalia, the parties, and Greek letters. Sororities are about lifelong sisterhoods and tradition. I also
Cited: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. A Legacy of Sisterhood. . Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. . Brown, Parks, and Phillips. African American Fraternities and Sororities. Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2005.