So Um i will be honest i did not have any intentions of joining a sorority when i first came in you know because i’m like sororities and fraternities they’re all just about partying or they’re just socializing i didn’t understand that there’s a community aspect to it so i’m part of the multicultural greek council
And one of the things we pride ourselves on is uniting together in culture i really found a community and it’s cliche to say but a home away from home when i joined my sorority and these are really like friends for life kind of thing and i know people say that
All the time but these are people that are going to be at your wedding your graduation like they’re just going to be with you and they’re a part of you and it changes who you are and how you are as a person you grow from that if you’re looking for a
Connection with anybody it’s like once you join this organization they’re going to be your brothers and sisters for life it’s not just in college these are for life you’re going to be able to count on them for anything making connections more like just networking you know things like that um
It’s a good you know a good thing to do like you know just to get involved on campus and you know just kind of like you know go out do like community service events and you know just do things on campus for like people that you know that’s not you know greek
I joined my organization to be more social when i came to utsa i wasn’t i didn’t know as many people and i wanted to get to know more people i’d have to say that the best part of being in a greek organization is the social aspect
Of it you get to go have a lot of fun and meet a lot of new people and kind of interact with people that you wouldn’t normally interact with like i’ve gotten to meet sisters who are in all different majors instead of just kind of you know
Where i’m cornered in it was something that simply stood out to me i knew i wanted to be a part of the mphc council it just stood out the founding principles are something that were totally different to me and i felt like they personally fit me so i joined my greek org
I joined delta alpha sigma star gazers because i was looking for a really close-knit um group of girls like that community and then just an opportunity to do like volunteer work and like philanthropy and just like have a really close group of friends so yeah So the best part about bringing greek i think would be the leadership opportunities it really helps you develop your character and your social skills um the best part about being greek i would say making connections meeting new people finding different ways to volunteer just basically the outreach you can do for yourself within
Your community overall just you know meeting new people and making new connections i think that’s the best part so one of our four pillars is academic excellence for my sorority we always have study groups going on every week we want to get together we want to hang out
Together and we want to see each other grow also if you have like anybody else just like a part of like your organization they can pretty much know support you like with homework you know y’all can you know you know do study hours you know go to the library you
Know kind of just hang out it can like just help you you know just pass and get through school advice i would give to a new member is authentically be yourself because you’ll attract the type of people you want in your life and think about your future
Self and the type of people you’re going to surround yourself with because this is what you’re going to be in all of college don’t be afraid to go up to other organizations you know i’ve made some of my lifelong friends through my sorority to be able to time
Manage and take on leadership roles in different organizations what i would tell parents that have a son or daughter going into a greek life organization is actively participate in helping them get more involved so donate in their philanthropy or show up to events or even participate on social media it’s
Just to be supportive and trust why they want to join greek life and then also understand that it is time consuming so my favorite memory is probably this thing we call undefeated that’s a stroll competition that my sorority puts on every spring semester usually in april and we get organizations from all over
Texas to come and throughout the entire year they create their own stroll and their own performance and then they compete at our competition and win a cash prize in front of all of our audience and then three judges i believe my favorite memory of being in capital cybertron incorporated is pretty
Much like having my probate a probate is kind of like the new member reveal we keep it hidden until the last day on our probate is when we all come up we all do our dance we have our little mask and then we reveal it take the mask off
Whole crowd goes crazy it’s real nice i came out and you know got to you know show my face to everyone nobody knew i was doing it and i think after you know after that event kind of set off you know my like my confidence you know being in that atmosphere everybody being
Happy for me Go runners go runners
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