anyone else? who else wants to share their story about how they knew they were meant to be a faithful sister?

Well, seeing as how my jet lag has me up at 4 am, here is my story:

I really liked Phi Mu during the first two rounds of rush, and it was among my top choices. So I went there the third round, and I did not really hit it off with the girl who was my primary rusher. It was the philanthropy round, so we were at the table keeping busy with the project, but my rusher was just pretty quiet.

So the girl who I had met the round before walks up to the table and says "Amy, I am so glad you came back to Phi Mu. It's great to see you again."

This may seem minute to some of you, but remember that I was at a school with over 1200 rushees annually, and this was the difference between everyone being nice while they were rushing me (which is expected), and someone remembering me and really wanting me to be there.

I remember I was playing vball my freshman year, and one of the girls on my vball team was a sister, and we just started talking and stuff, and then after our season she took me over to the phi mu house to meet some of the girls and we got along great, they wanted me to rush that spring but I couldnt in spring rush, well then fall came my soph. year and i decided then not to play vball for the college and I was thinking about rushing that fall, well a few weeks in to the semester I saw the phi mu sister and we started talking and she asked if i wanted to go and hang out sometime w/ the sisters and I eventually i did and I had a great time. Then when rush came I knew pretty much all the sisters already and met the rest and I knew phi mu was the place for me. The even more excitign part was that my big was the sister who I played vball with and introduced me to phi mu.

Thank y'all so much....
 

:) I just wanted to say thank you for your encouraging words... and especially thank you to Jacquelyn!! You are an outstanding woman and a perfect example of a Phi Mu... I know that things are "up to me". And I am running for president in the fall.... I have also planned our first annual sister retreat, so far things look ok. I am working my butt off for recruitment because I'll be damned if we don't make quita... hahaha, so I'm basically researching all I can so NO ONE can say I didn't have ideas, or I didn't know what to do!!

Even though I get frustrated, I know Phi Mu is my home and I wouldn't be me without it, I would have never met my boyfriend(as ridiculous as that may sound), I would have never gotten my little sister and I don't think I would have had the opportunity for so much leadership experience!!

Thanks again!!!

LIOB,
JL (Jess Linn... but my sisters decided JL was shorter and less confusing, being that my last name is Linn...sorry Im rambling, lol)

I had a little something I like torefer to as Phi Mu destiny...

so at the end of my first semester, i was kinda thinking about maybe pledging a sorority, so my friend across the hall told me about phi mu and she just got a bid, so she took me to dinner with some of the sisters, still wasn't sure though, so next semester I go to a COB party and that day b the party I overhear a couple girls in my class talking about phi mu, I've talked to these girls a couple times about the teacher/class etc and they wre really cool girls, so I go to the party that night and was pretty well liked I got a good vibe and I liked the sisters, but I wasn't to sure, because of the money. So i didn't go to the next party on friday night, that saturday night I started a new job, this girl from my school Erin is training me...we're just chit chatting, she's a cool girl mentions she's in a sorority I ask which one and she's like Phi Mu!!! I was like this is gettin to weird, so go back to tell that asame friend across the hall about how I keep on running into sisters and its so weird and she tells me the one sister Beth(who is now my big and roomie!) was talking about me at the party last night, saying how much she likes me and how upset she was that I wasn't there...I decided right then, I have to do this or the universe might just fall apart!!!

My school has deferred rush until fall of sophmore year so I entered my school without even a thought about sororities. During freshmen orientation, we received packets describing all the clubs and activities on campus as well as the names of the presidents of each club. I was reading through it and when I read about Phi Mu, I recognized the name of the president as someone I had met during one of the orientation activities. Just knowing the president of Phi Mu set that sorority apart from the others. When sophmore year rolled around, I started thinking about rush but decided not to because I was afraid everyone would cut me - despite the fact that my friends in Phi Mu were begging me to rush (not a rush violation because I wasn't a registered rushee yet). I skipped rush but on bid day I saw all the Phis, including my neighbor in the dorm, with their their teeshirts and balloons and I was really jealous because I wanted to be a part of all that. A friend of mine invited me to a post rush COB party and I went - still afraid of being cut - and received a bid a few days later. :)

i think all these stories are so aweasome to read, its like destiny that brought us all here to phi mu lol

I didn't go through a formal recruitment, but I didn't go to a COB party either. I don't really know what to call what I went through :D Anyways, Phi Mu was the first sorority I met on "formal" informal rush night. And I was soooo terrified, bc I walked into the room and there are all these sweet pretty girls looking at me, and all I could think was "Awww I wanna be a Phi Mu!" I met a few girls and each one left me in awe. I met the other sororities, but nobody left me with that feeling. Well, I just prayed that God would let me get a bid from where I would feel most comfortable, and the next day I got one from Phi Mu. It was "very exciting":p

Hey, CarolinaCutie, who was that with the Joey Gladstone? :)

I had no idea that I'd fall in love with Phi Mu. In fact, I had no intention of joining any sorority that was PINK. I went in looking quite favorably at XYZ sorority, which has certain characteristics in common with Phi Mu if you know what I mean?

Anyway, I went to XYZ's first party, and while the girls seemed great and had a great presentation, I just wasn't feeling it. It was the weirdest thing, although I understand it better now that I've experienced some of the magic of sorority life. I really started liking Phi Mu, almost against my will, although I gotta say I didn't fight it. :)

Skit Night and Pref Night are what really sealed the deal, though. My chapter sings a version of "My Best Friend" at the end of skit night, and looking at all the sisters crying over the heart-felt words made me cry, too. Then at Pref Night my future big spoke to me of her big and why Phi Mu was so special to her. It made her cry, which made ME hug her and cry. Then she told me why she thought I'd make a good Phi Mu...and just the idea that this amazing girl would think so highly of me got me started again. This time I started crying, and she responded. I don't remember if anyone else had the waterworks going like I did, but I do remember people looking at us and smiling.

If that's not a sign, I don't know what is. :) Even if it is pink. :p

It was Amanda and Kimme... we were cracked up the entire time :)