“In high school, I played football and always had a group of guys to fall on in my best and worst of times. I joined because a guy on the football team, a year older than me, was in Theta Delta Chi and told me to check out the house. During freshman orientation, I got a house tour and explained my interest to the brother who gave me the house tour, in what I’m looking for in a fraternity and I signed in the summer. Early fall of 2019, the men of TDX treated me as family and I spent nearly every minute of my time at Iowa State during my pledge ship at the house, when I wasn’t in class, because I was invested in the future the exec team laid out. I was also given several opportunities to grow as an individual and going from as an introvert to an extrovert, I am continuing to do that to the men we are recruiting now. There has been some dark times, especially in the midst of the pandemic, that I have been doubting my path. But my brothers here listened and lifting me back up to where I am now, I couldn’t have gotten thru that without them”