Please note my signature before reading this!
I was 16 when I graduated from high school, 17 when I started college. I had a full scholarship to a school in Virginia, but my parents didn't feel that I was mature enough to live away from home at the time (never mind that it had been my mom's family's home!). Over the years, I see that they were right. I went to college locally my freshman year, fully expecting to transfer afterwards.
And then I pledged ADPi. I LOVED my freshman year! I was very torn about transferring, but what sold me was that there was not (at the time) a chapter of ADPi at the VA school. I would have lost out on the majority of my sorority experience.
This is my Road Not Taken. Where would I be, had I gone away from day one (and probably pledged a different sorority)? It's really not ADPi that I question at all, it's the school.
That all being said, I couldn't imagine being happier in a sorority other than Alpha Delta Pi!!
honeychile