In the Spring semester of 2017, I did something I never thought I would do: join Greek Life. Throughout my life, even up until the Fall semester of 2016, I never even considered looking into joining a fraternity. Nevertheless, an older friend from high school invited me to a few recruitment events for his fraternity and I found that I enjoyed the members and their ideals. After a lengthy internal debate, I decided to rush and was recently initiated to the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, whose mission is to “Champion a lifelong commitment to brotherhood, learning, ethical leadership, and exemplary character.” Looking back, I have no regrets about joining Greek Life and I am convinced my college life and even life after college is greatly improved through the new friends, opportunities, connections, and more.
Furthermore, in this Spring semester of 2017, I have joined a newly established club named GrOSU. The club, created by fellow Green Engineering Scholars and high school friends, is aimed at creating and educating others in safe and efficient ways to farm and produce food products. Since the club has just recently been created, the amount of opportunities have been lacking. Over the summer, I plan to travel the 2.5 hours with the high school friends in order to help set up a foundation for the club for the fall semester of 2017. Once the academic year begins in the fall, I plan to stay in GrOSU and be as involved as possible in order to better the club and the community overall.
