Category: Leah Portis

A Long-Overdue Thank You Note to my Freshman Roomie

to my neat, preppy, always-on-time, unable-to-nap roomie, We met at Summer Orientation when we were randomly paired together as roommates for the night. When you walked into the room, my first impression was “She seems normal!!!” Thank goodness, because if you hadn’t appeared as such, I probably would’ve run from the room screaming, jumped in…Continue Reading A Long-Overdue Thank You Note to my Freshman Roomie

The Importance of Alone Time

Something I didn’t really consider about your freshman year of college: you are literally never alone. Like, you live with another person in a glorified box. You go to classes, and lunch, and meetings and dinner, all with other people, and then you come back to your box, and there is another human there, because…Continue Reading The Importance of Alone Time

A Definitive Guide to Sorority Recruitment

Over here at the Furms, we’re now on the other side of spring semester recruitment. The Potential New Members have now found their sisterhood, and are busy friending upperclassmen on Facebook and trying not to get overwhelmed at their pledge class’s GroupMe. So now that I’m on the other side of it all, I thought I’d…Continue Reading A Definitive Guide to Sorority Recruitment

This is real, this is me!

(Name that movie, ya’ll) Bonjour! Hola! Aloha! Ola! My name is Leah, and I’m a freshman from Nashville, Tennessee.  I adore theater and singing, and my newest talent is hand-lettering (look it up!!). My weaknesses are any movie about weddings, sparkling water (La Croix pamplemousse), and polka dots, but I can also be found rocking…Continue Reading This is real, this is me!