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Tom - do you mean do I wonder if it is worth it to be in a local?

Yes. I love my sorority, and while I hope and pray that we affiliate before I graduate, if we don't I will still be thankful for the experiences I've had. Because I rushed so late at my campus, I was more unlikely to get a bid to a national. Phi Chi was an option that I explored and accepted. I will always be a Phi Chi whether we affiliate or not, or whether I am accepted as an alum initiate or not in this sense: it is a part of my history. Even if I don't practice those tradtions anymore, I still have them in my memories and in my heart. It has grown things in me that wouldn't have been there otherwise.
However, I want the feeling of sisterhood all over the country/world; I want to be able to benefit college women from my sorority after I graduate. I come from a campus where locals aren't that strong - we're the only one, and we're very small, but do participate in as much as we can - and I see us affiliating as a way to make sure that when I come back to MTSU years from now, I have a better chance of my "home" still standing than I do now.

Did I answer the question you asked?