Okay, so I’ve been blog-slacking again. I’m sorry. I have had the busiest month that I’ve had in a long time. Two major things have happened that have prevented me from dedicating a whole lot of time to blogging:

-My parents’ divorce was finalized

-I had my graduate school interview at UNC Chapel Hill

So I have spent a lot of time dealing with both of those things. There have been good and bad things happen, which I will get to in future blogs, but my friends here at Transy have helped me through them all.

Also, I have found time to do some fun and interesting things on campus during all this. I have been writing lots of poetry as part of my poetry workshop; I attended Transylvania’s production of “Aloha Say the Pretty Girls,” which was incredible; I am developing a proposal to improve the behavioral science lab here at Transy, and this week is Greek Week!

I’ll get to the other things in future blogs, but I’d like to talk just briefly about Greek Week. “We know, WE KNOW that Transy has a large Greek population,” you say! Well, let me explain an incredible part of Greek Week in which the whole campus and outside community members are participating.

Yeah we have fun events for Greeks like Don’t Forget the Lyrics and Greek Family Feud, but really this week is all about philanthropy. This year, we chose to collectively support Collin’s Classic for Children with Cancer http://www.collinsclassic.org/index.html , a philanthropic organization that assists children with cancer financially and emotionally.

This week, I saw the Transy Greek community band together to help this organization raise the money it needed to fully fund 3 children’s trip to a camp for children with cancer. We were challenged by an anonymous donor to get as many people to ‘like’ Collin’s Classic on Facebook as we could—for every 1200 likes, he or she would fund 1 camper. Collectively, we were able to spread the word about this fantastic organization to help them reach 2500 “likes” and send 2 children to camp. Through our own personal donations, we were able to send another.

It’s really easy to stereotype Greek life. I hope this helps show why Transy’s Greek life stands out in so many ways. We have our priorities straight, and I’m proud to be a part of it.