It's no secret that Greek life is constantly scrutinized under the public eye.

The media is continually covering what's wrong with a few and aren't taking into account the great successes coming from these organizations as a whole. Recently, some major sorority-life backlash came from when the University of Alabama chapter of Alpha Phi posted their recruitment video and discussions sparked on what this video was really saying to young women.

Going through sorority recruitment can be terrifying. Just think about how young potential new members research these different organizations on their campus, seeing flawless photos of great Greek women, Tumblr pages full of bikini pictures and impeccable makeup-painted faces, sometimes causing them to feel as if they could never belong to something so prestigious.

Just researching a Sorority can be intimidating - and taking that extra step to actually register for recruitment is just as terrifying.

But what is really lost in translation for these young girls? Themselves. It's very easy to get caught up in the clothes, the makeup and trying way too hard to do and say all the right things.

This year Florida Gulf Coast University's entire Panhellenic Community took it upon themselves to paint the correct picture for these impressionable young women hoping to enter Greek life. They had their team of recruitment counselors take off their makeup to the song "Try" by Colbie Caillat. The song talks about being yourself, and not trying so hard to be something you're not.

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A lot of the time, being yourself can get lost in the recruitment process, and that just leads to misaligned expectations later on down the road. Being Greek is a great thing to be when it's empowering an individual to be the best version of themselves, not when it is making you feel less of yourself.

As women, we should be empowering one another to be the best version of themselves, and teaching our younger members that it's time to look past the superficial stereotypes.

Our Panhellenic organizations are some of the most prestigious women's organizations in the nation, and it's time we start acting like it.

It's time that our recruitment videos dig deeper than just a pretty face. It's time that we talk about how we're human, and we're not perfect. Its time that we talk about how much money we've raised. It's time we talk about how many hours we've dedicated to serving others. Most importantly, its time we prove the media wrong.

Sorority women are a force to be reckoned with.