To my college friends,

Y'all have impacted me more than you know.

Coming to college and moving from Atlanta to Lexington was scary. I had to leave my family and friends as well as adjust to a completely new way of life. I was forced to break out of what little shell I did have and be 100% confident in who I was and the way I was raised.

This is not always easy. Often times, people struggle making new friends or finding their niche in greek life.

Thankfully, this did not pose a huge threat to my transition. I was able to move to Lexington and rush a sorority and find my home.

That first week of recruitment was very stressful. I was alone for the first time as a college freshman and had a huge university staring right back at me.

This is where I found my first group of friends.

To the girls that live in my dorm and that I went through recruitment with, thank you:

Thank you for being just as scared to start this journey as I was at the University of Kentucky.

This was the biggest step in our young adult lives. We were away from our parents and we were expected to adjust to life in college while balancing a busy week of sorority recruitment.

Thank you all for comforting me when the schedules came back during the week and it maybe didn't look the way I wanted, thank you all for celebrating with me when I got to run home to my new sisterhood, but above all, thank you all for being my first friends at UK.

To the girls in my sorority that I am lucky enough to call my sisters:

I do not even know where to begin. Thank you all for the unconditional love and acceptance I feel every single day. That feeling of being apart of something bigger than myself. Thank you for allowing me to find my place within Phi Mu.

Thank you all for the constant laughs and the memories and experiences that come with wearing our letters. Being in a sorority is more than just having Greek letters written across my chest.

It's about forming the bonds and relationships that will last forever. Thank you all for accepting me for who I am and not expecting me to change at all.

To the people I don't thank enough for your friendship:

THANK YOU.

Being in college and knowing I have such a large support group of people I can count on makes it easier.

Being six and a half hours from home poses a threat in that I do not have the comfort of my parents or my close friends when something is wrong.

Knowing I have everyone at school to love and support me made being at the University of Kentucky a much less daunting task.