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#5171 Can I still do sorority rush if I'm on academic probation?
#5170 To the people who keep posting things like "there are no black professors at rollins" or "I brought my bf to park and he ask why there are only white people". Yes you are right, but why are you complaining about it? No one forced you to come to Rollins, was it not your choice to study at this "white-only" school in a "white-only" town?
#5169 On the topic of students bashing Rollins. Most people forget that they chose to go here. Regardless of financial standing or scholarships, each student who attends Rollins made a conscious decision to do so. They students also fail to realize that at other schools you will face similar issues to some degree.
#5168 I don't understand how you can get homophobic slurs on a nearly daily basis. I've been out on this campus since my freshman year and in the past four years I have never once had a slur directed towards me. I've also never witnessed it happen to any of my many gay friends. I'm not trying to say it hasn't happened to you or that it doesn't happen on campus, but just maybe you need to re-evaluate the people you spend time with if your experience with it is so commonplace. The overall campus culture is very gay-friendly, so I'm sorry that you have happened to experience otherwise within your social circle.
#5167 If a member of a sorority/fraternity represents the whole organization and a student/faculty member represents the entire school, does one black person's actions represent the entire race? Does that mean that since there are some black people who are criminals, we should assume they all are?
No. That logic is faulty and generalizations are always ignorant, no matter who you are generalizing. Some racist students or even faculty do not make this a racist institution. There is a ton of good to outweigh the bad. That's not to say that the bad does not exist, but this jump to quickly condemn and the binary of an us v. them attitude is what is causing so much tension and disapproval of the entire movement. By all means call out the individuals who are causing the problems. Just don't act like it's the entirety of the school that's at fault.
#5166 Can we stop condemning an ENTIRE INSTITUTION for the terrible behaviors of some ignorant students? Like, aren't generalizations bad or something? Or else what are you even fighting for?
This school has amazing professors who challenge racism and homophobia constantly. It also has administration that develops personal individual relationships with students and works with them to address their struggles. Administration that adds us on facebook and takes an interest in our lives. That's not a normal thing. Most colleges don't have that. You realize that, right?! The support we find at this school is phenomenal.
Rollins might not be perfect, but it DOES care.
#5165 To #5158: Guys want women that are sexy and feminine, and that will support us and stand by our side. End of story. Feminism has told you that you're perfect the way you are, that you don't have to put effort into your appearance, that "one day" you'll meet someone magical who just "gets" you and doesn't care how you look. That's great advice if you want to be a crazy cat lady. The real advice? Take care of yourself. Dress in a manner than flatters your figure, whether you're skinny or curvy. Hit the gym and take care of that figure. Learn how to eat correctly, and bonus points if you learn to cook in the process (I'm a guy and I'm a better chef than half of the women I've dated, which is why many of them didn't last long). Educate yourself beyond just school (read non-fiction, read newspapers, be able to hold a real conversation). In short, never stop trying to improve and be the best version of yourself. And when you find a great guy, treat him like a king (and if he doesn't treat you like a queen in return, he's not a great guy).
Finally, guys, this shit applies to you too. Get your shit together, lose your beer gut, get a hair cut. The minute you think you're "good enough" as you are is the minute your girl will start eye-fucking the guy who didn't get complacent.
To #5160: Good look getting a quality boyfriend or husband with that attitude.
#5164 to everyone complaining about the "lack of dating" and the girls who do that "stupid side arm pose": get over yourself. you talk about other girls being slutty and fake. are you done shaming now? because you are, in my opinion, so much worse than any other girl. if what other people do is making you that upset, you need to do some soul searching for yourself. because if oversized sorority shirts and expensive purses on other people have you down, you have way bigger problems, and they're all inside of you. and I'm sure you're one of the people who preaches about Rollins judging you from
the outside. as someone involved in Greek life, with a serious significant other, who has expensive taste, I can assure you that you are judging me on way less than I am. you're just as bad as the people you bitch and moan about, and as far as I'm concerned, way worse. get over it. join a club or meet some people. your assumptions about us are so much worse than the large majority of us are. stop being so ignorant and see that you're the one judging on just what you can see from
afar. we are real people with problems and ambitions and loves. we aren't some subspecies of human that deserves to be classified as awful or shallow. you're shallow if you think you know all of us based on what you think you see or based on the few people you've met that seem the same as us. don't make generalizations.