Every year for the past three years I have moved into my respective place of living in East Lansing. I made way into my new home at the time and quickly began what every one else thinks is pure torture, sorority work week, where all sorority girls are subjected to going to their houses for some allotted time during Welcome Week to work on how to make this year the best year for their house. Although a handful of people would hate this “chore” and would rather rip their own hair out of their heads than do it, this past week has put a new love for my sorority into my life.
As cliché and silly as this may sound to anyone that is in or even not in a sorority, work week really changed all of that. Last year, most of the girls I was closest with in my house graduated and got their big-kid jobs. The time came quickly as their last year came to a close and I felt what would be stuck in a house where I thought they were my only friends. Basically, I threw myself a pretty short (and pathetic) pity party.
This is my last year at Michigan State University, and will probably be the saddest and greatest year yet. It is sad to think that by the beginning of May, I will be graduating like my friends had and moving onto jobs and a professional work life. Why can’t college be six years? I really do not know, but I wish I could change it all.
I was worried that I was going to be miserable and basking in my own depression thinking about the people that have left and are not coming back as students, but this past week has been nothing but laughs and great memories all around.
I am one of the few seniors in the “oldest” pledge class during this past week as some girls go off on their other responsibilities. One may think that being the oldest at these functions would be a nightmare because we have done this all before and this information is beyond redundant. WRONG. I have found some strange enjoyment in it. I have been given the opportunity to become more familiar with the people that I usually would not see. I have been able to get to know the newer girls, which are the ones I am leaving my house to after I walk the across the stage in May. I have been a girl my sisters have been able to approach for help and ask questions when they might be stuck. I never held a position throughout my sorority, but being older and still committing to this house and the people inside of it has been the most fulfilling position thus far.
For a lot of people, being in a room with a large amount of sorority girls is their worst nightmare. For me? Not even close. Despite the long hours and the urge to leave early for Rama, I have loved the way our recruitment chairs have gone about the process and the attitudes people instill while doing it.
Best of luck to everyone throughout recruitment!
