My freshman year doubles partner on the tennis team was 2 years older than I was, and I looked up to her immensely. This girl was just amazing. She was accepted into Northwestern, and she came back to visit my senior year of high school. She was wearing a shirt with funny letters so I asked about it and she said that they were her sorority letters (I totally don't remember what they were). I was really surprised, and I said (prepare yourselves to cringe, because I am), "I thought everyone in a sorority was slutty and drunk all the time."
Luckily for me, instead of refusing to ever speak to me again, she was like, "No! My sisters are wonderful!" and went on and on about all the great stuff they did together. Since I admired her so much and knew what an amazing woman she was already, I decided to give it a little more thought. I've always been a big tomboy and Florida Tech is 70% male, so I finally decided I needed some estrogen in my life!
I went through Formal Recruitment the first week of classes and found a great group of women in Alpha Phi. I wish I could find my friend at Northwestern and tell her how she was the motivator for me joining a sorority, and thank her. And since I know Alpha Phi is at Northwestern, maybe she's even my sister!
