[astroAPhi]

Well, quite honestly, my only choice was a NPC sorority. When I joined, we didn't have locals, NPHC, multi-cultural, and to join a professional organization you have to be a junior. I might have considered an engineering sorority, but we might as well be one anyway. We do have Alpha Phi Omega, but I was looking more for girlfriends because it's a predominately male campus (70%). I grew up a tomboy, so it was important for me to learn how to deal with other women.

Now we do/did have a local (they will be colonized by Phi Sigma Sigma this Fall) starting my junior year, and I knew the girls who started it and had been planning it for a long time. There isn't too much "need" for a multicultural organization because Florida Tech is about as multicultural as you can get (20% international students), and every organization on campus, Greek or not, has people from a wide variety of ethnicities and backgrounds. (When I say need, I mean that it wouldn't be a huge selling point on a campus like this.)

While I am good friends with many of the girls in the former local, Alpha Phi gave me exactly what I was looking for. I needed a variety of service, social, and leadership development opportunities while meeting and relating to women.