sleeping porches - more info please

sounds like you're approaching this subjective with a really negative outlook which I also remember feeling before rushing. It's not really a matter of "encouraging" PNM's to move in on bid day, you basically have to. There are very VERY few circumstances where other arrangements are allowed. Theta will say they don't have sleeping porches but they have rooms with 8-10 girls sleeping in them so call that what you want. KD is the only house that truly doesn't have any sleeping porches. That being said they're really not that bad at all. Every house does it a little differently and this will be clarified during the house tour round but the most common approach is where each house has 1-4 separate porches that have anywhere from 10-30 beds and they are "24 hours dark, 24 hours quiet". Then you'll typically have a closet, a dresser, and maybe a desk in a separate room for you to call your own. This way you don't have to deal with getting woken up by your roommates especially if you want to nap during the day. Sleeping porches can be a great place to escape to if you just need quiet time or want to watch netflix in bed or whatever. You typically won't find any "storage space" inside the actual porches because that's what your room is for. Typically food is not allowed and most porches will all be "respectful" because sleep is a very unifying cause that everyone cares about. Living out junior year is way less common but almost every house that I know of allows seniors to live out

Thanks for answering my question.

Actually, sleeping porches sound great. I just didn't expect them to really exist. Never heard of such a thing until I started looking into Greek life at UW (I am from out of state). The other school I was looking at was in the south and had a point system to live in the house.

I went to summer camp for a month with the same girls for 7 years. We were really close, so I can see why it would bring a class together.

What you described answered most of my questions. I really appreciate that.

One last one though... You pay per Quarter? So do you pay for winter & Summer? I hear can't live in the house over summer so that is confusing.

Sleeping porch is the best because you can sleep any time of day and it’ll be just as dark/quiet as if it were nighttime. You can’t get that in a normal room. Also you generally share your actual living space (with desk/closet/dresser) with 3-5 girls (or more depending on the house). Overall though I wouldn’t let whether a house has a sleeping porch (or even how large the porch is! cause ik that can be intimidating) be a big factor in whether you live there. You’re pretty much going to get the same living experience with beds and whatnot where ever you live so you might as well go to the house you click best with. That’s something I wish I had known when I rushed and I now know rly well since I have friends in about half the houses and we have very similar experiences.

Sleeping porches really aren’t bad. You get used to them. But the houses that don’t have sleeping porches are Theta (questionable depending on how you define a sleeping porch), Kappa Delta, and Alpha Xi Delta.

Thank you all so much for the feedback. I am learning so much about sororities, I am so excited to be rushing next year. I never knew that we had to sleep in porches but for real I think it's really cool. Do you girls ever smoke weed to fall asleep? I can bring some on the down low haha

Phi Mu also doesn’t have sleeping porches but has room with 4-6 girls.