As I am sitting here writing this article, I have nine more days of classes in my undergraduate career, and it’s surreal. I remember the day when I started my college years, and to reflect on where I am now is fairly overwhelming. One thing I have been thinking about lately as my days as an undergrad are winding down is my sorority and my sorority sisters. I’ve been an active member of my sorority since fall 2013, and I really wish I had more time to be an active sister. This semester, I have had to take a small step back and focus on graduating, so there were some times that I did not go to an event and spend time with my sisters. But it happens and that’s just how life is. But the times that I have gotten to spend with sisters (this year especially) have been moments that I wouldn’t want to trade for anything else. Especially since I went through a fairly dramatic life change this fall, and the people who I eventually learned that I needed to go to were my sisters, and I quickly learned that no matter what, their opinions and advice are what really mattered.

This semester, it especially hit me that this is the final active semester that I will get to spend with my sisters and do all of the fun events and hang outs that we all try to plan to do. I am fortunate enough to return to Frostburg in the fall as a Graduate student, and I will have opportunities to see my sisters, but it won’t be the same since my course work will be much more hands on. I won’t have the opportunity to participate in Greek Week with my sisters or other Greeks, I won’t be able to attend sisterhoods and bond more with my sisters, or even attend chapter—which I believe is a great opportunity to catch up and spend time with sisters. All of the fun things that I have gotten to do as an undergraduate sorority girl is quickly coming to an end, and I’m not ready to accept any of it yet. Probably on the day of graduation I’ll think to myself as I am sitting in the ridiculously hot gymnasium of my school that it’s finally over, but I am going to miss all of the fun that I have got to have as a sorority girl.

I mean, being a sorority girl is for a lifetime, and my sisters still love me and I love them. I’ll still get to see a huge majority of all of them next year while I’m in graduate school, and I’ll still get to meet new women that get recruited in the future and have more ladies join my own personal family tree. So my membership will never end; just the active part where I get to go out and do all sorts of things on campus with my sisters really won’t be a thing anymore. But again, that’s life. People have to grow up eventually, and now it’s my time to grow up. And I honestly think that I am ready for it.

To my Alpha Sigma Alpha Theta Lambda sisters: you all know that I love each and every one of you very in special ways that are different from every other sister. You are all one of a kind, and I couldn’t be more thankful to have the privilege of calling all of you sisters. Now, please keep me a proud alumna, because while I am very happy to graduate (because I have worked so hard the past four years and it’s time to graduate), I am going with some reluctance because I am going to miss all of you the most. Be fair and kind, and take care of each other and lift and support one another. I love you all so much, and please continue to “live it, talk it, dream it and work for it” because no one can be greater than you as long as you do that.