Stevens Admissions: Katie's Blog

Gamma Chi Chapter!

Theta Phi Alpha is now an official chapter at Stevens Institute of Technology! I'm so proud of all the hard work that these girls did over the past year in order to make it this far. Say hello to the third National Sorority at Stevens! Such a great opportunity for future women coming in to Stevens. While 35% of all Stevens students choose to go Greek, I think that it is especially empowering for women on campus to join. Being in the minority on campus, joining a sorority just makes us that much stronger! 

S.S. Stevens

Someone recently asked me if I attended Stevens Institute of Technology when the S.S. Stevens was still being used as a dorm room.  The S.S. Stevens was used from 1968 to 1975 as an additional dorm building for Stevens students.  It was located right off of Sinatra Drive, and thus a quick walk for students to get to their classes in the mornings. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About 150 students were allowed to live in the ship each year.  I would have loved to have been a part of that!  How cool would it have been to sleep on a ship every night and have to skyline view of Manhatten so close! 

Theta Phi Alpha

Back at Stevens Institute of Technology, I am part of a Sorority, Theta Phi Alpha.  Theta Phi Alpha came from what used to be a local sorority, Omicron Pi.  Theta Phi Alpha is a national sorority and they allowed us to join them and go from local sorority into a national one.  We became a colony of Theta Phi Alpha in September of 2011, and the girls have been working so hard to get ready to be officially instated as a chapter.  It's finally going to happen!!!  On the weekend of April 14th, all my girls will finally become sisters of an official Stevens Chapter of Theta Phi Alpha.  I couldn't be more proud of them, and I wish that I could be there with them for the amazing weekend they have ahead of them. <3

 

Friends :)

I am so excited!  One of my friends from Stevens joined the Marines and is stationed about 4 hours north of me in California.  I haven't seen him in almost a year but today he is driving down to San Diego!  

I love the bonds that I have made in my time at Stevens Institute of Technology.  Attending a school of a little over 2,000 undergraduate students, you really get to know so many people.  Freshman year, I honestly felt as if I knew everyone in my class year. If not by name, I could at least recognize them around campus.  We are such a close-knit campus, and I wouldn't change that for anything. :)