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Make Friends With The Frats

The family I never expected, but was blessed with anyway.

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Make Friends With The Frats
Emily Bowen

Dear Pledge Class Fall 2016,

First of all, I love all of you already! I can't wait to get to know you guys as my sisters.

As I get to know you, and you get to know me, there'll be something very consistent about me:

As much as I love my sorority sisters, I also love my fraternity "brothers."

If I'm not on our hall, the caf, or class, you can catch me on their hall. Not a week goes by that I'm not up there.

Don't believe the Hollywood stereotype of frats. The fraternity members aren't just there to party and sleep with the sorority girls.

My experiences with the fraternity members on campus have given me some of my best memories of my first year of college. From meeting my first frat friend in sociology, to taking a third of them to our formal, to one of the them throwing me a birthday party this summer, I have a lot of thanks to give to fraternity members.

I went to one of them crying when I couldn't figure out who my big was, and crying from joy when I found out I was getting a little.

I cried on one of their shoulder's when my boyfriend broke up with me.

I spent all of spring break with two of them. One stayed in my guest room the whole time he was there.

I can't stress enough how important it is to have friends outside of your own sorority. I love my sisters, but I also live with them, and that can be difficult sometimes. I needed the breaks that I got just hanging out with my frat friends, playing Cards Against Humanity in their chapter room or complaining for long amounts of time in one of their dorms.

I love going to events and cheering on the fraternities on campus, watching them make fools of themselves in baseball or watching them kill it at Alpha Gam's Lip Jam (I still watch that video almost a year later). I love this because it's not just a group of guys in an organization doing the event; it's my friends, many of whom I probably talked to that day about that specific event.

They come to Bid Day, just as excited as you while you wait for your little to run to your open arms.

You go to their Bid Day, yelling as loud as you can as each other new members joins their group of brothers.

You'll run to them about how excited you are for their new members and they'll run back to you for theirs.

And you'll (almost) be as excited for their new members as yours.

I have lunch everyday with fraternity members, I have GroupMes with fraternity members. I have pictures all over my room of my sisters with fraternity members.

My college experience would not be the same if I hadn't met these guys, and I owe them more than I could ever repay.

I love my fraternity "brothers," and I hope you find the same friendship with the fraternities as I have.

With love,
The Sister Voted "Most Likely To Be On The Lambda Chi Alpha Hall"

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