The start of your best forever *RECRUITMENT SPECIAL*
To my sweeties and my future sweeties,
I cannot express how much of an honor and privilege it is to get to write and talk about my life as a Diamond Sweetheart. I walked onto this campus with no one and walked off this year with 100 sisters by my side. My story begins as I stumbled across Diamond Sweethearts the summer before my first fall semester and knew from the beginning that it is what I wanted, and I was going to do anything to get it. One day as I walked across the quad and I saw Melani Garcia smiling and screaming “Join DSweets,” I was sold. I submitted my application that night and slowly started freaking out about the interview. I dreaded that part because I was the most socially awkward human being. As the day grew closer, I became more nervous about it if that was even possible. The day arrived and I remember walking in and seeing Koko and Emelie sitting there waiting their turn. Seeing such familiar faces eased my nerves just a tad, but seriously? Who can even compare KoKo and her humor, not me and that is for sure. My turn came just as quickly as it went. I walked in and embraced what made me, me, and little did I know my future big and family members were sitting in that very room. We all laughed, smiled, and realized we all just wanted a sisterhood at the end of the day.
After making it through interviews, I thought the hard part was over but here came meet and greet. The day these girls got to see me and choose if I was fit for them like I knew they were for me. I walked into a room of girls beaming huge smiles and truly just wanted to get to know the newbies who wanted to join their sisterhood. Through ice breakers, speed dating, and so much more, it became transparent that this was it for me. This organization was made for me, and I would love nothing more than to be involved with something so amazing. The day I found out I was a Diamond Sweetheart, and I was going to join a legacy of loving, strong, independent women who loved so many of the same things that I did. I cried. So much and so hard. And that day will be one that I will never forget.
Being a Diamond Sweetheart is a privilege and an honor. I have 100 sisters that are down for anything and everything at any time. If I need a ride, text the group chat. If I want to grab Italian Garden, text the group chat. Heck, if I wanted to know what the new bachelor tea is, I would just go ahead and text my sisters (ps. Clayton was TERRIBLE). I have a group of girls that will love me, hold me accountable, and be my home away from home. The most special bond that comes from Diamond Sweethearts would be the big/little bond. That is a bond like no other, for my big is my person, my confidant, and my best friend. She chose me just like I chose my little. Jamie, being your big is nothing short of amazing.I get to watch and help my little fall in love with the organization just as I have, and that is something special. I have gained my future bridesmaids, the future aunts to my kids. This organization can give you the happiest moments of your life. I gotta watch my best friend win an executive board position, my little experience, things that I already experienced in this org, the hugs after a little too much time apart from one another. Now I realize, I smile a bit bigger, laugh a bit louder, and feel a heck of amount of love when surrounded by my sisters. We all come from different walks of life, different parts of the country, and all have different outlooks on life that we share with each other. I could not be more grateful knowing that once a Diamond Sweetheart always a Diamond Sweetheart.
There is nothing more that I would love than if everyone could come and join us on this crazy journey that we call life. I cannot wait to watch you guys walk in wide eyed and so ready to love us like we will on you. Just remember, to be yourself. It is so cliché, but I truly cannot express that enough. We want to know what makes you smile, what makes you tick, what is your own little quirk that no one else knows. Be unapologetically yourself. A Diamond Sweetheart once told me when I first joined, “what you put into this organization, you will get out of it”. Give this organization your all, and you truly will never be the same.
-With so much love,
Alexia Mitchell #dsweetsordie
