Most people tend to assume that Greek life on campus is all about the parties, while in reality, it means family. For most college students, they experience and change through their academics and figure out what they want to do after school. For the lucky ones who decide to go Greek, in more ways than one, they begin a new life.

As a freshmen or a transfer student, you quickly learn that making friends can be quite difficult; you find that there are students who have a friend group from college, and some who already have a set friend group with no intention to expand. Sororities and fraternities welcome anyone to rush with open arms. They are eager to meet you, learn more about you and have a future with you. There’s one thing to make friends that last through college, but with a sisterhood or a brotherhood, you are making friends who become your family and last a lifetime.

Your sisters/brothers are the ones who pick you back up when you fall down. You could honestly make a big mistake and they would still be there to get you back on the right path. They help you to grow and learn in ways that you never thought was possible.

One of the most amazing things about a fraternity/sorority is that people from various types of background learn to unconditionally love each other. Even when your family is miles away, you always know that you have one close by. A family that would talk with you at any time of the night, even for small things that doesn’t necessarily seem that it matters, but it always does to them. The best part of the family is that it doesn’t just extend to one sorority/fraternity, but it extends to the whole Greek community on a campus.

The size of a sorority/fraternity does not matter, because it is the people within the organization that does. It is the feeling of finding somewhere where you truly belong that makes Greek Life so desirable. And that was the point in which I realized it was for me. They are the kind of people who help me to grow as a person while also seeing things in myself that I never saw before. Let’s be honest, before I joined my sorority, I did not even know what a Philanthropy was, but through the Greek community, I learned the importance of giving up your own time for a greater cause, even if that means getting up early in the morning.

I had always wanted to be a part of something that was bigger than myself. There’s not a day that goes by where I regret making the decision to pledge my sorority. I don’t know how my first year of college would have went without having my sisters by my side. They have helped me in more ways than they could ever imagine and have showed me how to be a better student in the books and outside of the books.