September 19, 2024, at 4:30pm
I dropped off my roommate at the Kappa Alpha Theta house, which is the sorority that she is involved in, here at OSU. As she got out of the car, I started to notice the things that stood out to me on this side of Greek Neighborhood. There were cars parked all along the one-way street in front of me. Every model car imaginable with the Greek letters KD on the top of their back windows. With a sign at the end of the street labeled Kappa Delta parking. The Kappa Delta sorority house was just behind, on the right-hand side of the Theta house. Right next to the Kappa Sigma fraternity.
There were girls coming out of all houses and having conversations as if nothing else existed in their little bubble of Greek Neighborhood. The sky was gloomy and gray with signs of a storm coming in. Lighting struck as I drove through the jagged, undone, narrow roads of the neighborhood. Cars trying to squeeze past as people crossed the street from all angles. As I drove through, I studied the Greek letters that were on each of the houses. Many of which had big title blocks with their sorority or fraternities' names plastered on them. Alpha Delta Pi was to the left of the Kappa Alpha Theta house. Across from Alpha Delta Pi was the Delta Tau Delta fraternity; all with young adults bustling in and out like bees in a hive.
I saw fraternity boys playing basketball on the court that connects to the outside of the fraternity house. Although the weather was stormy it was like looking into a snow globe of frozen time. Each house had its own individualized touch to it, that made it stand out from the others. All of them overpowering the next one, with brick, nicely cut trim, and big wooden or metal doors. It was a whole section of the University that many just passed by and never paid attention to the life that goes on within. It makes you think of how many people these houses have held. These houses have seen generations of people that we have no idea about, yet they know they are carrying a tradition of hundreds of years.
