I Week

So on Saturday, I am going to be initiated into Delta Gamma. This week is called "I Week," the I standing for Inspiration. It's a week to reflect on what this whole new member-ing process has meant to me and where exactly I want from here.

Reflecting back, I've realized how much joining Delta Gamma isn't completely about Delta Gamma. It's about the fact that I am making a decision that I truly feel is utterly and completely mine. I made this decision to join a sorority without the level of assurance from my parents that I would have liked. I knew what I had planned out to do when I was a freshman in college, and I went and did the opposite.

I was never going to be a sorority girl. I was never going to pay for my friendships and snap all the time.
And yet here I am, wearing my pi alpha pin. Everything I thought I knew about sororities was wrong.

Joining Delta Gamma is not just about the pledge of sisterhood, character, and service I will take on Saturday. For me, it is my Declaration of Independence.