[PhoenixAzul]

It just blows my mind to think of having a pledge class of over 20, let alone over 50! Ours have always been small, with my 9 person class being the largest in recent history. We tend to wear our size as a badge of honor...even though we may only have 20 or so actives, we still meet/exceed the work done by chapters 3x our size on campus, and we manage to have a better GPA than every other house on campus (why that's important? fewer girls means that every grade hurts the average).

Even with 9 girls and a year later, I'm still learning thigns about my pledge sisters that I never knew. But that's what is great...we can still cram everyone into the living room and have a gripe session, we can still all fit in an elevator (don't ask...weird tradition), and we know more than name hometown major. It's a different feeling from holding your meetings in a lecture hall. When we got our new girls, we got all excited because we had to add another table to fit everyone.

I don't think i would have rushed if my chapter had been 100+ people...the size is just intimidating to me. I love my 23 Delta kittens, each as crazy and wonderful as they are, and I really do consider them my blood.