I thought that by senior year I would have grown tired of my sorority. Four years of paying dues, mandatory meetings and events, always feeling the pressure to find a date for date functions, and tired of dealing with the petty drama that always starts as we all get back to campus. However, this year everything changed. I fell even more in love with my sorority, my specific chapter, and the sisters who I genuinely missed this summer. I'm not sure if its the start of my nostalgia, the fact that its senior year, or that I am slowly coming to terms with the start of the "lasts", but somehow Phi Mu has become one of the greatest things in my life.
It all started with this year's recruitment. I am not sure if it's because it was the 'last' one, or if I just realized I should have more fun than feel more stressed, but this year was unforgettable. It all started when I got to know girls who I hadn't really talked to before, and slowly became better friends with the ones I did. Then once preference ceremony came around, I finally reached the point where I actually cried (and I never do). I realized that these were the most fun, coolest, weirdest, and most awesome women I had ever met. I am not sure if it was the lack of sleep and energy at that point, but I couldn't help but look back and be grateful for my own bid to my chapter three years ago.
My love for my sorority grew this year because of the immediate closeness all of us seniors felt. We have finally reached the point where we are the leaders, the oldest, and this is our last year all together. We have all realized we are friends bonded by the same chapter. No matter the reason for this understanding, I look forward to the senior messages, the creation of memories, and the subsequent nostalgia photos.
A constant theme I have noticed these first three weeks into my senior year is that I am often asked if it's sad that I am a senior. And my honest answer is not really, because I know that this will be one of the greatest years of my college career, since I get to spend it with my best friends (cliché, I know). If I am gonna live these year up, I can't imagine doing it with anyone else.
