Wednesday, January 6, 2010

My First Blog Entry EVER.

My name is Samantha Feiden, my friends usually call me Sam. I am currently a junior at The Ohio State University and plan to be a physical therapist at some point after my education is complete. My urge to join a sorority all started when I was a freshman in high school. My best friend's older sister (basically my older sister as well) came home for a break from Syracuse University as part of an organization called a "sorority". She wore really fun t-shirts and wouldn't let us borrow any. When we went to visit her, we stayed in her sorority house and fell in love. When my best friend and I split up to go to separate schools four years later we both ended up Greek. Ariel joined the same house, Sigma Delta Tau, as her sister and is currently living in her room. I knew I would rush right away and now I am a sister of Alpha Epsilon Phi. For the three years I have been at Ohio State, I've changed my major three times, lived in three different housing types on or near campus, and lived with different women each time. Everything I have accomplished here has been a decision I, myself made. Joining the Greek Life on campus has been my best but also my most important decision. It has given me sisterhood, friendship, and leadership opportunities I've never dreamt of having. I absolutely love it. 
Now that I am enrolled in a class that doesn't use the usual syllabus to inform the students of the quarterly guide, I am excited. I like to believe that I am up to speed on the new internet advances, I recently got a kindle, an electronic book, and I Facebook on the regular. I do not Twitter and I never thought I would blog, but here I am. So now that I am blogging I can officially say that I'm okay with doing a lot of new things this quarter and I'm pretty excited. 

2 comments:

  1. Glad to hear of your excitement for trying new things this quarter! I'm also excited for that... I have never blogged either (and never thought I would), so it will definitely be an experience for both of us!

    Thanks for sharing your story with all of us. I look forward to working with you this quarter and hope your excited for Recruitment!

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  2. Hey Sam! So I was doing a little blogstalking while you are recruiting, and I loved reading your post. It was fun to learn more about you and how you got into Greek Life!

    I am so excited to work with you and continue to improve our community, but sitting here thinking about recruitment I am wondering how we can get more quality women and not just quantity? Not so sure about the True Quota yet?? Yes, I want us to be larger as with a larger community we can do more and affect more people on campus, in our community, and in the Columbus community, but still how can we make them quality? You think that starts with providing a New Member Program and higher expectations for the women? I don't want us to scare PNM away, but I do want us to start to really create a valued-based community....

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