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Consider this scenario: You sit down for dinner with your fraternity brothers.

How did you first get connected with Greek InterVarsity?

When I came to Grand Valley, we didn't have a Greek InterVarsity chapter and I didn't think I was going to join a sorority at all. I was plugged into our undergraduate chapter of InterVarsity from the start and grew in community there. After a while, God placed Greek life on my heart and after praying about it for all of my freshman year and that summer, I decided to go through recruitment in the fall of my sophomore year. 

There's a lot of talk about why fraternities and sororities are some of the worst organizations out there, about how they offer only problems for their members and the world around them.

How did you first get connected with Greek InterVarsity?

After joining my sorority, Alpha Epsilon Phi, during my freshman year, my big recommended I go on a service trip during my spring break with InterVarsity. I decided to go on the trip and have been involved with Greek IV ever since. 

How often do you have something in mind before you do it? Do you plan out exactly what your semester will look like before it starts? Or make big decisions in your head before consulting family and friends or God first? As Greeks, most of us are used to planning our lives and our days out down to the minute. Since most of us are very busy, this is a must. But sometimes we take it to extremes. 

Greek InterVarsity at Arizona State University didn't even exist until just over a year ago, but now there are dozens of students involved, house ministries getting started and students growing

First time headed to Greek conference? Have no idea what to expect? Nervous with no idea what you’ve gotten yourself into? I was right there with you last year.