I was not expecting us to become as close as we did, a year ago when we first began talking, both eager and scared to start college. However, during orientation when you spent four hours on my bed sharing your life with me, I knew you would become a friend I would have for a long time. I knew this when we planned to do homework together and instead ate pizza and talked for almost seven hours about everything under the sun. I knew it when you embarrassed yourself in the campus center, more than once and I was there to both laugh at you and remind you that it was okay, that’s just what happens when we’re put in a room together.
I was definitely not expecting you to join my sorority, or any sorority, for that matter. Formal recruitment had come and passed, and you had said nothing about it. I didn’t ask you to go through recruitment because I knew we would spend no less time together because of it. Yet when I mentioned an event we were hosting for continuous open recruitment, you asked to come, and I held back my excitement when I said “sure, you can if you want”. Every time you left after talking with my sisters, we would look at each other and agreed that you belonged in our sisterhood. Whether you knew it or not, you were part of us.
The night you received your bid didn’t just change your life, it changed my life as well. For me, it meant I could call you my sister from that moment on.
Together, we got to learn about the history of our sorority. We helped raise money for our philanthropy that will always have a special place in our hearts. We went to our chapter meetings and looked at each other, silently cursing everyone around us when it ran longer than we expected. I got to see you meet your Big, knowing you were more than perfect for each other.
At the end of it all, I got to go through initiation with you. I learned our sorority’s secrets side by side with one of my closest friends, and transitioned into full membership, making a lifetime commitment not only to our sorority, but to being sisters for the rest of our lives.
I know the next three years will be full of hugs, tears, really stupid comments made by you in the dining hall, and ridiculous jokes. We will work our philanthropy events to continue to benefit the charity that is filled with the love of our sisterhood. We will meet new sisters during recruitment and celebrate their bid days, seeing them experience the best days of their lives as we did. We will watch them get their Bigs and celebrate their journey into our sisterhood. We will live our creed, and we will do so as sisters, as we were meant to be.