My personal best leadership experience that I can remember recently, excluding my appointed roles through my fraternity and sports, was on a Friday night last Fall. My friends and I all decided to go uptown and get some drinks as most students do on the weekends. We all went to a couple bars and the half of the group decided to head back to hangout. I went with that group and one of my fraternity brothers Mac decided to stay with the group that didn't go home. An hour or so passed after we all split ways and I was sitting on the patio of my house with the group of friends that decided to leave. Suddenly, my friend Mac comes walking around the corner with his face covered in blood. Apparently, someone in Oxford that night went on a rampage and jumped a handful of bar-goers uptown. Mac clearly needed to go to the hospital, but at the time he was my friend but we weren't that close. In my mind there were at least three other people who were closer and/or more sober than I was. However, nobody wanted to take him because everyone was underage and were scared about getting in trouble. He obviously was both upset and under the influence, and probably shouldn’t have been going alone. When he asked, nobody on the patio said they would go with him including me, but something inside of me got me up and ready to take him. I'm not sure if it was compassion, a sense of loyalty to my new brother or just knowing I wouldn’t want to go alone, but I went with him. We got there and I helped him check in and then waited in the lobby until they called me back. For the next two hours we sat there and just talked while the doctors took care of him and the police took his statement. After the hospital we just went home and went to bed, and I really didn't think anything of it. However, the next day Mac approached me and told me how grateful he was that someone went with him. He said he’d never admit it but he was scared to go alone, and I would be too. Up until this assignment I never really considered this a leadership experience, but after considering it I think it is. I think that this experience taught me that sometimes leadership isn’t always a huge motivation act, or a position people voted you into. I think that leadership is just showing up and doing it when nobody else wants to. I think that's an important thing to remember especially when working in a group. Not only did I learn a little bit about leadership from this experience, but now Mac is one of my closest friends. I am very thankful that I helped him out that day, because it not only taught me about being a leader but it helped create a strong friendship.