The Spring semester is finally here! With that said, recruitment dates and times are finalized, so be sure to come check us out during recruitment week! All nights are dressy casual with the exception of preference night which will be business professional. See our FAQs for more information. Don't be shy to bring a friend, and we're seaux excited to see you all there!

On Wednesday, April 27th, we held a special Senior Session for our 16 graduating seniors that will be leaving us in just a few short weeks! The rain stopped just in time for us to snag some really great pictures at our favorite spot, Tiger Stadium, while our seniors reminisced on all the fun times that they had with their sisters. 

Here's some things our seniors had to say about what Sigma Alpha has taught them, advice to our future members, and what they'll miss most about Sigma Alpha: 

"These girls have been by my side through the tears, long nights, and crazy adventures that come with going to our amazing university and I wouldn't have wanted it any other way! In just a couple of weeks we will all be going our different ways and stepping out in the real world. I am so proud of each of you and I know Sigma Alpha has readied us to become the women who will excel in agriculture and to be like Ruth and walk forth each day of happy hearts and continence serene."
-Paige Quebedeaux

"Sigma Alpha is definitely a lifestyle. Sigma Alpha becomes your life, and your entire semester revolves around it. It's important for me to keep up with my school work in order for me to spend time with my sisters. The fact that it's done so much for me for personal growth...I'm going to miss it so much."
-Erin Mackey 

"My favorite part about Sigma Alpha is that it gave me somewhere to call home. Before I joined Sigma Alpha, I didn't want to be in Baton Rouge, and I didn't want to be at LSU. When I rushed Sigma Alpha, I found my place where I could be myself and have someone to talk to, eat lunch with, and go to class with."
​-Megan Galland 

​We have had quite a busy weekend in March with Sigma Alpha! Whether it was our long awaited Big Little Reveal or our Founder’s Day Banquet, we had a great weekend with our sisters. We were also scheduled to have our sisterhood retreat on Saturday, but because of the crazy weather, we have rescheduled our retreat and will have an additional post about our sisterhood retreat during April!
 
First off, Big Little Reveal was amazingly hosted by our Vice President of Membership, Elise Barras! Our seven “littles” were so excited to find out who their bigs were after a week of non-stop gift baskets from their lovely Big’s! Our littles gathered together to guess who their bigs were based off of their matching socks that their bigs got for them. Our actives stood behind a curtain labelled “guess who?” with their feet stuck out, and our MC’s were so excited to find that their bigs were the sister they’ve always wanted! Afterwards, our big little pairs made their way into our game room that was full of a ton of fun games—from Hungry, Hungry Hippo, Battleship, Just Dance, Mario Kart, Twister, and more! All of our new Big Little pairs and all of our actives were awarded tickets per game they won and could turn in their tickets at the end of the night for special prizes! All in all, it was a fun and relaxing night after a stressful week of midterms. We are so excited for what this semester has in store for our lovely MC’s and are so excited to have them apart of our family!

 Overall, our weekend was full of non stop sisterhood and love. With the semester already halfway over, we’re all so glad we can spend it with our sisters!
 
If you want more information or want to watch awesome videos of each of these events, please visit our Facebook and make sure to follow us on Instagram as well! ​

​Phew! My first Rush as recruitment chair is finally over. What a whirlwind. Never did I think that something that I first viewed as being just a large ball of stressful complications would have taught me so much and that I would’ve had so much fun doing it. Well, honestly, never in my life did I see myself 1) in a sorority and 2) in a leadership position, none the less executive board for a sorority but that’s a whole ‘nother can of worms.
 
Now, don’t get me wrong, recruitment was stressful. Extremely stressful. Every single person in the sorority, whose apart of the college, every person on the outside and the inside looking at the sorority for the entire recruitment process is looking at me. If someone has a question, they’re going to ask me. If someone has a complaint, they’re going to tell me. And that, of course, is extremely stressful and put me in a very uncomfortable place for the time I was in the spotlight, but I know that being uncomfortable is what can drive positive change. This position pushed me so far out of my comfort zone and I am grateful for that. I had to come up with an entire recruitment workshop, plan out by the minute what was going to happen every night of rush, reserve countless rooms, orchestrate interviews, keep track of potential new members, recruit young women to become apart of our sorority, plan out our Bid Day, run our social media, and, on top of that, keep track of our active members and make sure everyone as meeting the requirements. What a mouthful. But I wouldn’t change it for anything in the world.
 
Being recruitment chair, even though it’s only February, has taught me to, obviously, become extremely organized. The objective things you think of when getting a leadership position in a collegiate sorority have obviously been checked off—organizational skills, interpersonal skills, creative problem solving skills…the run down. I’ve grown tremendously in ways that you would think come with the position. I was expecting that. What I wasn’t expecting was growing closer to my sisters while being Recruitment Chair as much as I did.