One of the main reasons I decided to join a sorority my freshman year was to make friends for a lifetime. I wanted to find my best friends, my future bridesmaids, and Delta Gamma has given me just that. During my new member period, I found a group of girls that I could see myself being friends with. Little did I know that now, as juniors, we would be living together for going on two years now.
I was initially cautious about living with my three best friends because I had always heard that living with your friends can make or break your friendship. I went to boarding school in high school, so I had plenty of both good and bad experiences with roommates. I didn't want to let living together be something that could potentially tear us apart. Living together has only made us better friends than before, and I have DG to thank for bringing us together.
As roommates, we do not just live together, we do everything together. Before our chapter meetings on Sundays, we will cook dinner together. On weekends, we will stay up late watching reruns of Law And Order: SVU. We walk to classes together, we go shopping together, we pretty much do everything together. So much so, that we have become a 'crew'. If we go out and one of us isn't there, people worry and ask where the rest of our 'crew' is. Even though we spend all this time together, we (thankfully) never get sick of each other.
What I think makes us work so well not only as friends but as roommates is the fact that we are sisters. We have the same values and we all joined DG for the same reasons. Because of this, we truly treat each other like sisters, not just sorority sisters. We fight, of course, about the little things like putting dishes away or borrowing each others clothes, but we are also not afraid to tell each other to shut up and go study if you are spending too much time procrastinating. We have each others best interests at heart, and we look out for each other in all aspects of our lives. As cheesy as this sounds, they are the sisters I never had. Though I have a brother whom I love, there is something special about having a sister that truly loves you unconditionally.
