Graduation and life beyond the chapter

This article comes from graduating brother Chris Grigas

People say college is the best four years of your life, and most of the time they are right. While in college we define who we will be for the rest of our lives through the friendships we make, the events we participate in, and how we prepare ourselves for the adult world. As one of the 3,000 or so people that will be graduating this semester I am proud to say that I will be graduating as a Brother of Lambda Chi Alpha.

I came to Northern without knowing anyone. I was seven hours away from home and five hours away from the closest person I knew. My college experience was not the best when it first began. Like a lot of people I was homesick and beginning to reconsider my decision to attend school here. However, that all changed when I became involved with Lambda Chi Alpha. I was brought over to the house by Brother Jeff Hodge, and my life would never be the same. What I witnessed when I entered the chapter was truly amazing. I saw two brothers cooking an entire chicken parmesan dinner for all the guys that were at the house. This was amazing, because first of they were cooking, and second because they had did it out of the goodness of their heart and out of their own pocket for their brothers. I eventually came around more and was embraced by the brothers that I met. As time went on I decided to associate and looking back on it that decision was the best one I have ever made. It was the best decision because it put me on the course to joining a brotherhood that I have come to cherish and love with all my heart, along with the brothers that I now have. It made me a better man by teaching me responsibility, leadership, and courage.

Lambda Chi Alpha has been my life for the last four years. I have slept it, I have breathed it, and it will never leave me. As I prepare myself to enter to leave the safety of the college world, I am not as scared as I thought I would be. Lambda Chi Alpha has taught me not to fear the unknown, but to embrace it head on. I do not know where my life will take me upon graduation, I do not know what I will do as a profession for the rest of my life, but I do know one thing. I know that I will have an undying love and passion for Lambda Chi Alpha.

I would like to end this blog with a lesson that an alum gave to me when he graduated from school. He told me that we come to school and make friends for four years, however, when you joined Lambda Chi Alpha, you didn’t join for four years, you joined for life.