I went through recruitment this past January and pledged. I still wasn't completely sure about whether Sorority life was for me, but I wanted to give it a shot.
(Now to interject, I have a chronic medical condition and I'm in and out of the hospital more than most people...) I started not feeling great a couple of days before spring break, but I was about to fly home so I brushed it off, and felt that I would rather be in the hospital at home. I pushed through most of spring break, but I ended up being admitted to Children's in Boston the day before I was supposed to be flying back to Witt--and 4 days before I was supposed to be initiated. I told our VP of member education and the President of our chapter (who is also my boss in my on-campus job), as well as mentioned a few things on facebook, and the outpour of support from my KD sisters that followed proved to me that I definitely was in the right place. I got texts, facebook messages, and phone calls from so many of my sisters, even though they were 800 miles away. And when I got back, a sister who I hadn't been particularly close to picked me up at the airport, and we talked the entire drive home. (It was revealed, later that day, that she was my big!!)
And when I finally had my initiation, it was the most special and amazing day of my life.
