Reflective Essay: Fitting In Tweecht

It seemed as if I knew what I was getting myself into before coming to Lehigh, and the idea of fitting in did not concern me at all. After spending time around my future classmates before classes began, I started to think that I was wrong about fitting in. I come from a very different background compared to the majority of the students that attend Lehigh. I have found very few people who truly relate to me and have the same interests as me, which has turned into a potential folk group. This folk group bonds over criticizing Lehigh for its culture and atmosphere as well as other things that Lehigh tries to force on students in order to conform to one standard. Our folk group likes hanging out without anyone bringing up that they want to go out and party like the rest of the Lehigh community tends to do. I guess it is fair to say that we are “anti-Greek Life” because we would rather not be associated with certain people in fraternities and sororities. “That frat that hangs out with her …show more content…
I can 't rush it because I don 't wanna die.” The silliness that comes with rushing a fraternity includes pushing one’s limits to the extreme, all to enter a stupid frat. Ryan wants to start talking to this girl who is going to be in a sorority, so the only way it seems he can do it is if he attempts to join a fraternity. We joke about this girl he likes and gave her a nickname that only the group knows. Since she is from Connecticut, we call her “Nutmegger” since Connecticut is the Nutmeg State. She has no idea she has been given that nickname so we can speak in code whenever we are around her. We laugh when she follows the typical stereotype sorority girl demeanor and thinks she is superior, and we will refer to hopeful sorority girls as “another future Nutmegger.” But Greek Life divides the campus between those who are in it and those who are not, which alienates us as a group most of the