Brotherhood

Throughout my time at Sigma Phi Epsilon, I have grown to appreciate brotherhood and friendship at a deeper level. Before joining, I had my friends that I would regularly hang out with and considered them my best friends. While I am still close with these friends, I feel that I am not on the same level of friendship and as close as I am with my brothers. Being in a fraternity creates a bond between men in that we are all in the organization for a common purpose. After spending all of our time together, sharing the good times and bad times, and by participating in our ritual, we are unified in a way that an "independent" really couldn't understand.

3 Challenges

1) The biggest challenge I've faced in my position so far has been dealing with the lack of moral in the house. Whenever I plan a brotherhood event or an event in general, people just whine and complain about having to go. It really is frustrating to see most of the brothers not get excited about anything.

2) Another challenge has been developing a New Member development plan. When looking back to my education, it was done so poorly that I feel like I need to create a better one. It has been harder with out a base to develop upon, but it I feel that I'm beginning to get there.

3) Lastly, having to keep track of the chapters academics have been relatively challenging. There are several members who have grades below our GPA standard and I have been working with them to do better in school. Working with these members has been a bit frustrating but I enjoy striving to get our chapter where it needs to be.

Organization Values

Virtue
Diligence
Brotherly Love

Virtue- When looking at virtue, I have been in many situations where I have had to decide whether or not a certain action coincided with my moral beliefs. One of these situations occurred over Christmas break when some friends wanted me to ditch out of spending time with my family and lie to them. I didn't really feel comfortable doing this and my friends surprisingly didn't really pressure me into doing it.

Diligence- A fine example of my diligence can be seen on March 14th when I needed to finish a homework assignment while the weather was perfect. I struggled internally on whether or not I should skip the assignment and have fun, but I decided to be diligent with my studies instead.

Brotherly Love- Recently, one of my brothers and I had a disagreement that turned into a large argument. Instead of being mad at him for a long time, I understood that we were brothers and could talk our problems out in a mature and civilized manner. He agreed and through our brotherly love, we worked out our problem.