My Big and I are very close. I pledged as a freshman in spring '07 and she was graduating at the end of the semester. The chapter usually tries to avoid giving Littles to graduating seniors, but she had been abroad and had somehow never gotten a Little so she got me! She had been one of three Littles and I think because of that she made an extra effort to make me feel special by taking me out, buying me presents, etc. She was fantastic! We found out we had a lot in common (besides the same major) and got pretty close. She is definitely one of my role models - a very strong, intelligent and funny person!
After she graduated we ended up not talking for about a year. I blame myself 100% - I was busy with sophomore year and she was busy with her first job, but I wasn't good about returning the efforts she made to stay in touch. I still feel bad about it. But about a year after she graduated and moved away I had something really sad happen, so I called her out of the blue and we ended up talking for hours - she is a saint! Soon after she quit her research job and moved back to Baltimore to take a different one. Since then we've grown a lot closer and though we don't see each other too often anymore (we have both since moved away to new cities) we still talk/text/facebook a few times a week.
I would say I'm also pretty close with both my Littles. Little #1 came when I was a sophomore - we were already friends from our on-campus jobs in the same department and I shamelessly pushed her into rushing. She is a fun, beautiful, smart and ambitious young woman who will be continuing on to a prestigious combined BA/MA program next fall. Because she finished her bachelors in 3 years we were able to graduate together!
I didn't really know Little #2 well when I took her the next year (she joined as a sophomore when I was a junior), and but as we got to know each other better I was so impressed by how cool she is. She is very different from the rest of the family on the surface (Big, Little #1 and I are all WASP-y social science majors and she's a biomedical engineer who was born in China) but she is so much fun and incredibly smart. I wish she had joined a year earlier so we could have had more time together! The three of us have had some great times together and I miss them both so much now that I've graduated.
Neither of them took Littles until my senior year (Little #1 took a Little last fall, who then took two last spring, and Little #2 took two Littles last spring) so I'm probably not as close to the Littlests as I am to them, due to lack of time. However they are all fabulous girls and great assets to Kappa!
Wow, I just wrote an essay. Can you tell a nostalgiac recent grad when you see one?
