Advice for a fellow Sister (very long!)

[KSUViolet06]

As far as alumna life being worth it: Absolutely.

The sorority is for a lifetime. If everyone took their negative experiences from college and decided to never get involved again, there would be no alumna chapters because I can guarantee that not one girl on this board had a totally perfect, storybook collegiate experience. Your alumna years are FAR longer than the 4 you spent in college, so it is important to get into a place where you can move on and get involved without carrying the hurt of what happened to you in college.

As we graduate, so begins the alumna experience in our lives and we start all over. Everything in alumna life is so much different than life as a collegian. You will meet new people, do different things, and serve the sorority on many new levels that you could not while in college.

It really is a fresh start. I encourage you to make the fresh start and contact your nearest alumna chapter. You'll be glad you did.

[DZRose]

I too didn't have that great of an undergraduate experience which is the precise reason I became involved on an alumnae level. I have gotten so much more after graduation than while still in college.

But being active as an alumnae shouldn't have anything to do with your experience in college, especially if you don't even live in that area anymore. If you love your sorority, be involved and leave all that baggage at the door.