My best friend and I have taken a trip together every year since college. Our getaways look very different now.

Although our trips have grown from fun and wild in our 20s to fun and chill in our early 30s, we're always excited to spend this special time together. Alexa Mellardo

I'm a firm believer that there are some people in this world you're simply destined to meet and have in your life forever. For me, one of those people is my sorority-Little-turned-soul-sister, Lisa.

After bonding over many things during recruitment sophomore year — including our shared love for Blink-182 and punk rock — we both unknowingly wrote down on the get-to-know-you quizzes for the committee that we hoped to be paired as Big and Little sisters.

We were, and the rest is history.…