I Need Help!

[JuliaNJ]

I just came back from dinner with people from Alpha Sigma Tau. I had a really good time.

I obviously knew the girl I had a class with. The other two girls I recognized but didn't know. They're all juniors like me. They were definitely a lot more girly girly than me. But they were really friendly and welcoming. They were really happy to hear that I was interested. None of them brought up my newspaper column, which was a relief. They also said that I had an "interesting" style about me, which I took as a compliment. I told her that I was thinking about changing it up a bit to be more "normal." They laughed when I said that and said that they thought it was weird that I said something about them being "normal."

One of the girls went on a school trip last year to Appalachia in order to do a Habitat for Humanity type of thing.

I told them about what I'm going through, about how I want to make a change in my life and I thought that joining a sorority might be what I'm looking for. They asked me a little bit about that, and I told them the same kinds of things that I've written on here. They told me that one of the best parts about being in a sorority was that you always had someone not too far away you could talk to. And you also could reach out to alumni fairly easy to help out if you need anything. I thought this was really intriguing, because most of my friends are in my year. I don't know too many "older" people (like five years older than me) who can help me out and give me advice and stuff. I think that might be a big help.

It was definitely a relief to not hear about Vampire Weekend for a change.

A few of my friends were at dinner at the same time. One of them asked me why I was sitting with them. I couldn't tell her the real reason since I'm not sure of it yet, so I said I had to go over class work with the girl I did know.

I know that it's not going to be the solution to everything but it could be a nice change of pace and could make my college experience better. They were really nice and welcoming and not what I thought at all.

If it's not for me, then it's not for me. But I'm definitely getting more interested in this. These girls were really sweet and the type of people I'd like to get to know better.