Senior year is the best year of college. Despite having a mountain of job applications to compete, must of us are done with the major course work and are now just sailing through elective requirements. But with all good things, college must too come to an end and that means saying goodbye to your chapter and becoming an alum. Here are five things that happen when your pledge class becomes the HBIC’s.
Recruitment gets weird
Your pledge class tries really hard to bond again The group chat will start back up again, and a few of the more dedicated sisters will be pushing group bonding events on everyone else. Everyone will start acting as if the cliques within the pledge class didn’t exist and start going on (completely unrelated to senior bonding) bar crawls together. The group chat will inevitably blow up and you’ll mute it once or twice, but in your heart you will be happy everyone is trying to establish those lifelong friendships we all pitch during recruitment.
You will try to outdo last year’s seniors with your senior project Whether that means winning more Greek Week events than last year or actually showing up to more events than just formal, the real goal of the senior project is to show up the pledge class previous to yours. One last chance to show your Bigs who the real star of the family is. You also want to make it impossible for the pledge class below you to top your senior project, and so everyone gets way too invested in making whatever the senior project is happen flawlessly.
You have to stop collecting and downsize your shirt collection Eventually you will start having to wear real clothes and stop wearing that Sigma Chi Derby Days shirt that was passed down through your family for generations. You have to pass your own clothes on to the littler ones eventually. You will sort through your shirt to decide on just two to keep. Or you could go with the alternative route and turn all of your shirts into a t-shirt quilt. Either way you have to start wearing adult clothes, but that doesn’t mean you are going to like it.
You start imagining your life as an alum. Everyone has heard that alum events are pretty sweet, mostly because they aren’t restricted by the same crazy insurance plan that collegiate events are. You start planning all the book clubs you are going to go to and all the candle passings you will be able to do for engagements and you get super excited about the prospect of it all. But mostly you will be excited to see just how the “not four years, but for life” sentiment plays out.
