To my sweet pledge class,

It's hard to believe we were all brought together just two and a half months ago. It seems like I've known y'all for a lifetime. Each and every single one of you has made me feel like family since the first day we met, and I can't thank you enough for that.

Over the course of our time together, y'all have already changed me for the better. I've never had friends who have listened with such intent, or loved me so well! I can't tell you how many times y'all have made me laugh till my stomach hurts, and held me until the tears went away. Thank you for answering my endless texts, always being down to go on a late night target run, and especially never turning down an opportunity to get ice cream. Y'all are my ride or die girls forever.

How is it that we are already at initiation?!? Our time as new members has just flown by. From Bid Day to Homecoming to everything in between, we have already made so many precious memories that I will cherish forever. How luckily am I that I get to make so many more with y'all for the next four years of our lives? I, for one, cannot wait to see the fun times and adventures we'll have.

So thank you. Thank you for being my best friends, my therapists, my personal comedian, my swap buddies, my teachers, and most of all my family. Each and every one of you will forever have a place in my heart. I can't wait to do the rest of our lives together.

Now let's go get initiated. In the words of Elle Woods, "We did it!"