yearbook quote
 

our grad profiles for the yearbook are due today (oops!), and I need a quote to put in there... I already have one, but I want to add something at the bottom that's ADPi related where other people wrote "thanks to my family and friends" and stuff like that.

any suggestions?

How about:

Perhaps one of the best decisions I have made in my life so far has been to attend XYZ University. And the other has been to become part of the pride and heart of Alpha Delta Pi. Far from being just a campus activity, ADPi has been my "home away from home," and has helped me to become the woman I am today through friendship, academic support, leadership development and developing my talents to the fullest. I will always be grateful for the love and loyalty of Alpha Delta Pi, and for the experience to be a part of this organization. As I graduate, I know that as both an XYZ alumna, and an Alpha Delta Pi alumna, that I am a part of something great: the First and Finest. Forever.

that's AWESOME and I would totally go with that, but we have a limit of 250 characters, spaces included :( I should have said that...
I'm saving that though. I think I might be able to use it for something else for grad....

FD... I should start charging you by the hour! Kidding :)

Hmm, with limited character space---

My love and gratitude grows for Alpha Delta Pi, who welcomed me into their sisterhood with open arms, and in addition to my family and friends, have lifted me up and helped me learn to fly in this strange new place called "real life."

Should I write for Hallmark? (Don't throw the wet noodle!!!)

You two are gonna make me cry!!!;)

It wasn’t until I pledged Alpha Delta Pi, that I blossomed into the Lady I am today. Looking back, I realize ADPi wasn’t something I joined, or something I became, It was something I have always been...and will always be.

Well obviously you couldn't "use" mine b/c it is individualized, but our chapter does a thing called "Delta Letters" which are a letter from a delta member to our advisors each week. I wrote this week's Delta Letter:

Dear Sisters,
I have recently been interviewing for summer internships at newspapers around the country. While I luckily have secured a job at the XXX-based daily XXX, my father asked me why I was comfortable applying for jobs in towns where I know no one. “But I don’t know no one,” I told him. “There’s bound to be an ADPi who lives there.”
When I joined Alpha Delta Pi I knew I wanted to be in a sorority. Several members of my family, including my mother, had been in a sorority and the idea of it appealed to me. While girls spoke of their bonds and sisterhood on Preference Night during recruitment, I figured these relationships would come as I started spending more time with my new pledge class.
Now, over a year since my initiation, I have come to realize that the bonds of friendship which unite me and my sisters in ADPi, as well as my sisterly love for my older and younger Diamond Sisters, are eternal. Working this past semester as Alumnae Relations Chair, I have come to realize how you never cease to “be” an ADPi, even after you’ve graduated from college. Our sorority is 153 years old and our chapter is 93 years old, but the overreaching bonds of sisterhood, through our rituals and traditions, unite even our newest members with our oldest Pi sisters. There is a sister from our chapter who was initiated in 1937 who uses “Pride Online!”; 67 years after her initiation, her sorority is still a part of her life. I have come to learn that, although we genuinely are the first and finest, we are truly forever.
As my sophomore year comes to a close, and I have realized I only have two years of college left, I have been doing some introspection. Who am I? and how did I get to be this way? I am a journalist, a sister, a daughter, a Mississippian, a student, a horse-back rider, a reader, a sister of Alpha Delta Pi. And that’s when it hit me. I didn’t go through some magical transformation the second my bid-day t-shirt was thrown my way and I was handed a blue balloon. Neither did my sisters. What has really enriched my life at Duke have been the other women in ADPi, who are each uniquely intelligent and creative, funny and giving, leaders and philanthropic.
For as they say, “It’s not about what you’ve just become, It’s about what you’ve always been.”

Love and Loyally,

Emily


** I didn't want to put my new employer's name in there until I actually start working there :)