prospective88 you are such a sweetheart!! im really proud of you :) good luck with recruitment and i cant wait for sunday!!!!

I just finished reading the whole thread and I'm so anxious to hear how this all turns out for you! Please let us know where you actually end up ;)

Please keep us posted! Enjoy the ceremonies tomorrow!

i am so nervous scared and worried about what is going to happen tomorrow. i dont know what to expect. i can't sleep right now and my roomie is snoring away...lol.

i was told that individual chapters would call girls between 5-7 to let them know if they got bids. those girls are supposed to come to go the Greek Affairs office where there will be invitations there waiting for the new girls. There will be strict silence for 24 hours and then Monday evening all the sororities will be in waiting at different locations around campus and new members go to the sorority they will be accepting a bid from. hopefully i get to be one of those girls!

*keeping my fingers crossed!*

I know you are on pins and needles. I wish you the best of luck! How did pref parties go?

Crossing my fingers and toes... not sure of where she is, but it's 5:35 here, so I hope that she gets a phone call!!!

:) is all i can say for now. more tomorrow after i stop smiling!

I am so glad to see that smiley face! I know you must be beaming from ear to ear, so I will wait eagerly to hear the rest of your story tomorrow.

I'm so glad to hear that you have found your home! Now, we just have to wait and find out where!!! :D

Happiness is a :) !!!!!

See...sometimes it's worth putting your neck out on the line! Congratulations whether it's Alpha or Beta! (Not so secretly I'm hoping it's Alpha!!)

Aw, how exciting! I went through Formal too and I remember how fun it was and waiting to hear about your bid and stuff. Makes me wish I was back in college! I can't wait to hear where you ended up! :)

Hi Hi Hi!

First of, I would like to say thank you everyone for your support. It has
meant more to me than any of you could ever know!!!

Okay so here is the story:

On Saturday, I went to Alpha's ritual event first. It was amazing. Hearing
the women tell stories about what the sorority had done for them and how
much they loved their sisters truly brought tears to my eyes, and all the
PMN too actually. When I left to go to the Beta event, i was so full of
emotion and I wanted Alpha so much I honestly did not know if I should
even go to Beta's event. After a lot of consideration, i decided to
anyway. Just because i loved Alpha did not mean they loved me too you
know...

So I went to Beta's Event and I had a truly great time. An Amazing time
actually, one that was in a very close competition with Alpha. One thing
that upset me was the way that Kristin was acting. She was so warm and
affectionate to the other girls at the event. Giving hugs and saying that
she was so happy that they were there, but to me it was more of a Hi, how
are you type of thing. Very short. Despite Kristin, all the other Beta
girls were amazing. They made me feel really included and i really loved
them.

I left the Beta event totally confused as to where i wanted to end up and
finally i realized that it may truly not be my decision to make and that
first i need to see who is actually offering me a bid before i make any
decision. But i knew i could be happy at both places, and that was a
pretty good feeling. :)

All of Saturday I sat in my apartment practically bitting my nails off,
and finally my phone rang at 5:30. It was the recruitment chair for Beta,
and she was calling to let me know that they had offered me a bid. I was
so happy to finally hear that i was wanted in a sisterhood. No sooner than
I had hung up, my phone rings again. I picked it up hesitantly and was
told by the recruitment chair of Alpha, that i had received a bid to their
house. I was completely overcome by emotion at this point and cried on the
phone with her for a good 2 minutes.

I had spent all summer worrying about this and just like that the worry
was gone. I drove to campus and picked up my letters of invitation and
went home to try to figure out where i truly belonged. I knew that
regardless of whether i picked Alpha or Beta I was going to get great
women to call my sisters, but where did i really fit? Which sorority was
my true niche? I did not sleep too well Sunday night.

I spent most of today going back and forth back and forth, not really
knowing for sure whose event i wanted to show up at..lol.

But at around 6pm. I knew. I was cleaning my room, and came across a
journal from last year. The last entry in January was about my feelings
after not getting a bid to alpha. I cried after I read over the words i
left about pain and rejection and how much i would love to be apart of
Alpha and what they represent. I knew right there that my heart belonged
to "Alpha", Delta Phi Epsilon Sorority, and its sisterhood.

When I walked into that big room of Deephers i was so happy, so at home
and so thankful that God had listen to me. I love those girls and in 6
weeks, i get to call them my sisters, and that is just plain wonderful!

Congratulations!!!! 2 bids, and one very happy NM. What a wonderful new beginning for you, difficult to get to but oh so worth it for the result you had this year. Now you can start writing a new journal about all the fabulous times you will be having in DPhiE. (And of course, you will have to use a DPhiE journal to do so!!!!!) :)

Congratulations on DPhiE! I'm so happy you went Alpha! I thought it'd be where you'd go if given the chance. If you don't mind telling us, who's Beta?

I feel at little awkward outing Beta, especially since people from my school could so easily figure out this tread is from me, but for those of you who have stuck by me from the beginning, i feel like you deserve to know. Just private message me!