Purple, Passion, Progress & Purpose: Progress... The 38 Day Catch-Up!

Making progress is not an easy task when you are 38 days behind. So lesson learned, and I will try to make this blog a weekly update. But if I am late or skip a week, just remember the 5th "P" I mentioned earlier. ;)

To start this catch-up off, I'd like to share a couple memories from the dreaded dorm room move in day. A day where we imagine to have hundreds of people trying to move into one place with limited time, space, and energy. However, this thankfully failed to be true! A lot of my dorm didn't move in the same day as me, so I had a great advantage there(no fighting for luggage carts, we had a close parking spot, and ample amounts of time!) *thank you Karma!* This made the move-in process really easy, and to make it even better, I live on the second floor, so there were no long flights of stairs to climb... just an added bonus! :) So needless to say, I have some very fond memories of move in day, and I did not at all expect that to happen. This made for a happy Kaitlyn.

And to think... there was still more stuff in the car!

Just a glimpse of my new room!

Then came Sorority Recruitment Week(which is the reason I moved to campus one week early). Sorority Recruitment Week is something I will never forgot. The days were long, hot, and humid! Something I was definitely not used too. And I could not quite find a sorority which I felt would be best for me. There were some great girls I met, with lots of great qualities, but I wasn't really finding the fit for me. I went through with the process, but I actually found out greek Panhellenic sororities were not for me, so I did not join a sorority after all. At first I felt like I wasted a week of my summer by moving in early to end up not even joining a sorority, but now I wouldn't change that week for anything! If I did not attend rush week, I'd still be living in wonder if I should have gave it a shot. I'd also never have met some of the great people who I met during that week, and I think I learned a lot more about myself during that one week than I had in a long time. A lot of Progress and self-Purpose realizations came through that week, and it led me to focus more on the Passions which led me to this life of Purple.

MAPS Reunion at Sorority Recruitment Week

And that is what led me to consider Sigma Alpha, which is a professional agricultural society. Sigma Alpha is not a Panhellenic sorority, so they do not go through the formal fall recruitment week. Instead, they held their recruitment slightly later in the semester. I realized I came to K-State because of my Passion for agriculture, so I felt like Sigma Alpha might be the right fit. I had also met with some really great Sigma Alpha girls who I was truly able to relate and connect with. This led me to go through recruitment week and interviews, and I am so proud to say I am now a Sigma Alpha(sister in agriculture)! Although this is only my second week with Sigma Alpha, I am so glad I am going to be able to share this Passion for agriculture with my new sisters here in Purple.

My Sigma Alpha bid! :)

Our 1st Sigma Alpha Ceremony

The football games have definitely made K-State super exciting! Our first home game was against SFA, and we won 55-16! For our second home game, we got to rival Auburn, which let me tell you, was probably one of the most exciting events I have ever been to! Although we lost, the stadium was so alive and electric! There truly is nothing like it, and it was at this game where I really felt apart of the K-State Family.

I have truly been enjoying my academics at K-State as well. This semester I am taking Intro to AgEd, Intro to Human Development, Cultural Anthropology, Intro to Leadership Concepts, Expository Writing, and Principles of Animal Science. My schedule has a great mix of general ed, agriculture, and teaching classes, so I find it very enjoyable! And the professors here truly care about the success of their students, and I really love that.

I think this picture accurately describes my excitement for my classes ;)

To sum up this post, all of these college experiences wouldn't be worthwhile if I did not have a great group of friends here by my side. I am fortunate to have met some really great people in such a short amount of time in Kansas, and they have made my life in Purple 100x better! :)