I have always been an introverted individual: someone who stands to the side, does not have many friends, and tends to be shy until you get to know me. It is just a part of who I am as an individual, so it is completely crazy that I would even think about Greek life, right?

I thought so too, but now I am a part of it and I have already seen the positive impacts on my life, both socially and emotionally.

I am a new member of Alpha Sigma Tau (AST) which is an incredible sorority established in 1899 and has a lot of beautiful values and even more genuine women.

I was unable to go through formal recruitment, so I had to take things into my own hands and reach out to some sisters on my college campus to try and figure out what I would need to do in order to start my Greek experience. Right away I felt a connection with the woman in AST that were talking to me and answering the questions I had about the process and the steps to be successful.

Over that next week I talked to those women, but also went to a sorority softball game, visited the sorority house, just talked with some of the sisters that have different roles in the sorority, and went to a bonfire. It was an amazing time, but the best part of it all was the fact that I was comfortable with this group of women. I could talk freely and I felt excited to call them my sisters in the future. I had just walked up one day and they accepted me for how I was and they loved me for it.

It has been a very different journey and I have only been officially a member of my sorority for a week, but I feel the bonds with my sisters that I had never gotten to experience before. I found home three hours away and it sound cliché, but it is the truth.

Just because you are shy or more introverted than what you think would fit into sorority life does not mean that going Greek is not exactly what you need. Sororities and fraternities have so many different people and that is what makes them unique, fun, and different. If you are interested give it a shot and learn more about what you can get involved in.

I have found that it is very true when they say, "From the outside you cannot understand and from the inside you cannot explain."

The friendships I have already formed and those that I will continue to form for the rest of my life are priceless and being a part of AST is the best thing I have done for myself in a very long time.