Some of you might remember when I actually did leave my sorority.
My chapter was very small around 10 girls. I was Vice President and Panhellnic Recruitement chair. I was beyond stressed not only with Greek/Sorority life but personal things as well. My chapter allowed me to take 2 weeks off, where I was excused from every meeting and everything else. I knew my sisters cared, everyone was worried about me. I shared a suite with a sorority sister but I was withdrawing, not speaking to anyone but my bf.
Finally, I decided that it was not fair to put my sisters through this. They needed me and emotionally and physically I was not there for them or for myself. I wrote a letter and depinned March 2003. I had one or 2 sisters extremely mad at me, but the rest supported me. My big had graduated but she still told everyone I was her little.
Anyways, I ended up leaving that school, May of 2003. I slowly began to turn my life around and realize what I had done and what was missing. I was still in contact with my sisters/chapter even though I had depinned. This summer I was talking to my lil and realized how much I missed my sorority. The thing that got me was I was looking at my chapter's new website and under my lil's information it said "Big Sister- N/A", I was heartbroken.
I went through the process of getting my membership reinstated. And I am proud to say, a few weeks ago, my Alpha Sigma Tau membership was reinstated. I am proud to be an AST sister again.
I know going through all this has made me stronger and appericiate my sorority more. If I could go back, I would have declined the panhellnic recruitement postion, and I would have asked for help inside my sorority. I have learned in order to not get stressed out and to in the long run help myself, its ok to ask for help sometimes. You can't do everything.
So as u can see, I have been there, I did depin but I am now a sister again. So if anyone ever needs to talk, please PM me, since I have been through it all.
