Allegra

Over the years, I'd met a bunch of their friends from Greek life that had become lifelong friends.

I just admired those close bonds and wanted that for myself.

Initially, I was not happy with the house that I got into.

But it's so funny how things work out in that way.

If recruitment is done right, it should be about the shared values that you hold with your sisters and identifying that through the recruitment process and looking back now as an alumni going through all four years of active life in a sorority.

It was very positive for me and was a thousand percent where I was meant to be.

When did you initially meet Justin?

We matched on Tinder the spring of 2017.

I don't even remember his Tinder profile, but I think I thought he was handsome.

We ended up connecting on Instagram as well and following one another and then doing some DMs.

There was a chapter of his legacy fraternity at Western University.

And so he was in the process of trying to join that chapter.

Wow.

Legacy means that your father, grandfather, brother, in the case of a fraternity, were in this Greek organization, which isn't something that's widely used anymore due to the DE&I initiatives that we've implemented in Greek life, which I think is a good thing.

But at that time, legacy was very important to us.

I was planning on staying for the summer.

So I was looking for friends and other people in the different communities that I was a part of, like Greek life, for example, who would be around in the summer and making some new friendships or continuing with my old friendships, just having a good social dynamic set up for myself for the summer.

My experience was that if someone was a part of a fraternity, I felt like they were vetted to some degree.

Which, looking back on it now, that makes no sense.

Because it's not like they were getting a background check or anything like that.