If you asked me last year this time, when I was still in high school, if I would join a sorority, I would have laughed at you and said something along the lines of “yeah, right, like EK would join a sorority.” And boy, was I wrong. My mom was in a sorority at a bigger school, and she told me growing up that if I wanted to join one, then do it, but it may not be something I wanted to do. Not only that, I had a subconscious bias towards “sorority girls,” and how I did not want to be one of them. Low and behold, I came to Mercer, recruitment started, and some of my close friends, Helen O’Dell and Morgan Howes, were going through recruitment. All week they were just talking about how great it is and it made me think “hmmm, maybe I was wrong.” I called one of my family friends, who was actually a member of Beta Sigma years ago, and she told me how Beta Sigma really wants all of the sisters to focus on academics while having fun and meeting new people every day. The more I talked to her, the more I fell in love with it. I decided that I would go through recruitment my sophomore year, but then Helen told me that there was a way for me to go through it my freshman year. I went through informal recruitment, where I met different sisters in the chapter, talked to them, then eventually received my bid. And let me tell you, it was one of my favorite days of my life. Since I have been in Beta Sigma, I’ve met some of my closest friends, and I’ve changed and grown as a woman in just 7 months because of this chapter. I could not imagine my college life without Beta Sigma. Every time someone asks me if I am in a sorority, I proudly say that I am in Alpha Delta Pi at Mercer University. I love this chapter and the women in it. If I had to give advice to any potential new members, it would be to go through recruitment. You don’t have to join a sorority at the end, but you meet new people. Don’t be nervous because let me tell you, for people like me who haven’t gone through formal recruitment, we are just as nervous and excited as you!