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A Coffee Fueled Recruitment
I will be freshman at Washington State University in the fall! I am super excited for recruitment! I have actually been reading this website for a long time (way before I ever made an account) so I feel pretty mentally prepared. I know it will be stressful and that I can't have my sights set on certain chapters going into it. I feel like expecting it to be draining will help me deal with the stress because it won't take me by surprise and then I can focus on being my friendly self and getting to know a variety of people!
Anyways there are 13 panhellenic sororities at WSU! Alpha Chi Omega Alpha Delta Pi Alpha Gamma Delta Alpha Omicron Pi Alpha Phi Chi Omega Delta Delta Delta Delta Gamma Gamma Phi Beta Kappa Alpha Theta Kappa Delta Kappa Kappa Gamma Sigma Kappa I love coffee so I decided that my code will be different blends and roasts of Starbucks coffee! willow I have had multiple family members in this chapter and I have multiple recs to this chapter breakfast I have a rec for this chapter columbia I have a rec for this chapter espresso pike place It seems like a lot of girls from my school join this one at both state universities, but I didn't know any of the girls personally. kenya yukon I have a rec for this chapter veranda verona sumatra I have a rec for this chapter holiday tribute I am a legacy to this sorority kona The Schedule: August 11th - Move In/Recruitment Orientation August 12th - Educational Programs (Booze, Sex & Reality Checks, iValues, Phired Up!), Campus Tours, Week of Welcome events August 13th - Same as the 12th August 14th - Open House Day with the first 6 chapters August 15th - Open House Day with the final 7 chapters August 16th - Philanthropy with up to 10 chapters August 17th - House tours with up to 6 chapters August 18th - Pref Night with up to 3 chapters August 19th - Bid Day!!!!!!! |
Yay! I hate coffee, but I like recruitment stories -especially when they are about I school I actually know, so I'll pick Pike Place- not because of the coffee flavor but because there's a weird little curio shop at Pike Street Market that I love.
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I also hate coffee –gives me migraines– but I'm rooting for willow and kenya. Good luck!
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I love coffee and will be rooting for Verona. I'm so excited for a PAC 12 recruitment story!
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Thanks for the support everyone! I am glad those of you who don't like coffee were able to find ones to root for still :)
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I know so many WSU alumnae who had wonderful experiences in their respective sororities. I love that this is a WA thread, I love Starbucks (even though I don't drink coffee)... I mean really you can't go wrong! Best of luck to you, I can't wait to follow along on your journey.
But I think for now at least I'm rooting for willow or tribute. |
Today I got my nails done and then tomorrow I leave for pullman! So exciting! But also very wierd... it still feels like I am just leaving for vacation, not to actually live somewhere else.
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Good luck! I'm anxious to hear your story, but this makes me a little sad. One of those, "it just seems like yesterday" things when I can remember so clearly loading daughter's car AND mine up with all of her stuff and driving down to Pullman. The next day I drove home, sat down on my bed and cried for an hour....sigh. At any rate, at least you'll have better weather. The day we moved her in it was 104. And she was on the top floor of Regents. And I had to do it by myself because she had a cheerleading meeting and practice to go to...it was LOTS of fun. :rolleyes:. |
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That transition is tough. I drove myself to school during freshman year. My mom and I said good-bye on the porch. I had to leave really quickly because we were both going to cry. I went to the gas station to fuel the car and put my head on the steering wheel and just bawled. A total stranger stopped to ask me if I was okay. When I got to school, I called her to tell her that I was there and I had to get off the phone really quickly because I was bawling again. Freshman orientation started the next day and then I was having too much fun to cry anymore. |
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Good Luck, Sweetie. Can't wait to read your story!
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Coug2012- That was an unusually hot August - it looks to be cooler this year. I think you'll have great weather for rush.
KDCat - What a sweet daughter you are! I wish mine had cried a little when I left her at school, but as I pulled out of the parking lot I looked in the rear view mirror and she was standing on the sidewalk happily talking on her cell phone to a friend and barely noticing I was leaving. LOL. |
Coug2012 hey I'm in Pullman right now and it's totally a bearable heat. It's like 88(: coming from California where it gets ridiculously hot this is nice weather (:
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I don't drink coffee but reading the descriptions, I'd like Willow or Breakfast!
Best of luck!! |
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Coug2012 and Caylaashley, I am really looking forward to hearing both of your stories! |
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go Tribute!
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Thanks everyone! Pullman has been great so far! Moving in has been exhausting but I'm excited to start everything. I'm going to see my parents and sister one last time tomorrow before they leave and then go off to breakfast and pnm orientation. I'll miss them but I know I will keep in contact with them planty :)
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first day of parties went well! I'm going to delay my story a little though so I don't become identifiable.
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^^^Wise decision - but here's a suggestion. IF you aren't completely exhausted, type it up and save it, then post it next week (or shortly thereafter). If you wait until next week to type it you'll be busy hanging out with new sisters, starting classes, meeting people, going on date dashes, football games, etc., and we won't get to hear your story until Thanksgiving Break!
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thanks for the advice! I went ahead and did that. Now time to iron clothes for tomorrow!
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Round 1 Day 1 delayed
Breakfast This was the first house so it was pretty exciting! They were nice but it was the only house that day that I got double rushed at. It isn’t always bad to get double rushed I guess but it just stood out since it was the only one. The girls were a little awkward too; I found myself asking a lot more questions than one girl. It wasn’t horrible though. Yukon I loved this house! The conversations were a great balance of light subjects and what we actually value. The conversations were very free flowing as well! I really wanted to come back to this one. Holiday The girls were very sweet and the conversations were easy, however, I found myself coming away from this house just thinking they’re cute and feeling like I didn’t know much else about them. Verona I really did not enjoy my time here. I am trying to stay open though, knowing I only met 3 out of over 100. The girls just seemed very robotic, like they had a checklist of questions to fulfill, leading the conversation to not be free flowing at all. It seemed like there wasn’t interest in getting to truly know me, just figuring out if I met a certain criteria exactly. Veranda The girls here seemed very caring and I was able to have some great conversations with multiple girls here. They seemed super close with lots of holiday themed sisterhoods and I loved that! Columbia I really liked this house. I love that they are one of the stronger chapters academically and that they all seem very supportive of each other. They were one of my favorites today but I found myself wishing I could have had a little deeper of conversations with some of the girls. Kona So the girls were super nice individually and I had great conversations with most of the girls I talked to here, but for some reason sisterhood never came up in this round which I thought was weird since all other chapters focused on that. Over all I loved meeting so many people. I may have not enjoyed certain chapters as much as others but I know that I only met a couple people out of many... but I do have to make decisions based off of something. |
^^^YAY! Thanks for posting. Daughter just read it and told me who she thought was who (we had fun with that), but she thinks you did a great job of keeping it honest, stating your feelings in a polite way, and being general enough that on most of them she could MAYBE narrow it down a little bit, but not much.
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I was about to post another update but it didn't work for some reason so I will have to do it when I have more time. I still have programming tonight.
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Pike Place I loved this chapter! they didn't seem over the top which is how I am and they seemed motivated and honest
Espresso I liked this house and had great conversations with the girls. They brought out my outgoing side but I don't know if I could handle a whole house of girls like them. Kenya I like this house alot! I had a great conversation with a girl who had the same major as me. Willow Really good conversations with 2 girls. One was a little awkward but that was okay. Nothing stand out about this chapter. Sumatra They didn't seem as motivated as me and I don't know if we had much in common. The conversation wasn't awkward but the girls I talked to didn't seem to get excited about anything I said. Tribute Really good conversation but for some reason they didn't excite me at this point compared to other chapters. Ranking (all ones are equal) 1. Pike Place 1. Yukon 1. Veranda 1. Columbia 1. Kenya 1. Espresso 1. Holiday 1. Tribute 1. Willlow 1. Kona 2. Sumatra 3. Breakfast 4. Verona |
you can't stop posting NOW! recruitment is finished in Pullman ... we need to know how it finished!
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^^^Well she does have classes today, so she'll have to go to those at some point (LOL) but I'm really looking forward to hearing the rest especially since the coffee I picked is currently the front runner!
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I'll update tomorrow! I only have 2 classes!
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The next morning I was invited back to 8 chapters. I didn't have a full schedule but I had enough for me to feel like chapters still wanted me. I was dissapointed because a few of my top chapters dropped me but I just had to remember that my top 2, pike place and yukon were still on my list.
Yukon I really loved this house again! They seem girly like myself but also like people who have a lot of values at the same time. I talked about my lilly planner with one girl which isn't very common to have in the northwest, so that was exciting. Willow This chapter was pretty good. I did get double rushed and it seemed like the other girl outshined me in the conversation. I thought I still got in enough information about myself though. Sumatra This chapter was better than the last round, but I still struggled to find a topic that both me and the girls I talked to were enthusiastic about. Tribute This chapter went about the same as last time. Easy conversation but nothing that stood out the really ecited me. Pike Place I loved this chapter again! Their philanthropy sounded really fun and they still gave off a sense of being able to balance fun and values. All in all these girls seemed a lot like me based off of how they presented themselves. Holiday This chapter grew on me a ton today! I loved how their philanthropy is set up! Finding out about their philanthropy gave them a lot more depth and every girl I talked to seemed very sweet. Breakfast All I wrote down was that it took a lot of energy to carry a conversation with the girl I talked to. Kona The conversation seemed a lot harder to carry than the day before. I liked their philanthropy but it dissapointed me that the girl I talked to seemed very reserved. Ranking (all ones are uqual) 1. Pike Place 1. Yukon 1. Holiday 1. Sumatra 1. Kona 1. Willow 1. Tribute 2. Breakfast |
^^^I am so impressed with myself. Usually in these stories I pick a name that's gets dropped on day1. Go Pikes Place!
On another note - what, pray tell, is a Lilly Planner, says the middle-aged mom who has spent the last 30 years in the Northwest. I get that it is probably related somehow to Lilly Pulitzer (which I had never heard of until GC). Is it a day planner in a Lilly print? |
yes! these are them: http://www.lillypulitzer.com/categor.../pc/61/219.uts
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^^^cute! Are you going to post the rest of your story????? More story please!
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I will tonight!
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In the morning I was invited back to 4. I wasn't upset about the number of chapters I was invited back to but pike place had not invited me back. I was sad but I knew I still had yukon so I was mostly okay. I was just starting to doubt my own judgement. It felt like each day more of my favorites were cutting me and the ones that hadn't excited me kept asking me back. One that had started to grow on me also cut me, so I was just very confused. I forget the order but here are the chapters I went to.
Breakfast Again, I felt like all of my conversation here was pretty forced. Also, there were a few comments made that seemed to give off a vibe that they weren't as social as I wanted my chapter to be. I was really shy at the beginning of high school and the girls in this chapter reminded me of how I was back then, I didn't wan't to revert back to those ways, I wanted to keep growing as a person in the direction I was already headed. Tribute I was starting to like this chapter a little more today. I had good conversation and in one of the rooms they even had taylor swift music playing! I loved that, I am a huge TSwift fan! Yukon I really liked this chapter a lot. I loved getting a their house tour! The house itself wasn't amazing but I could see myself there and I had a ton of fun on the tour. It was hard to think of specifically why I liked them but I just felt comfortable here. Kona I didn't feel a great connection with the girl giving the tour but I could start to see that there were plenty of girls in this chapter that were like me. I also like how their house was set up! Ranking (all ones are equal) 1. Yukon 1. Tribute 1. Kona 2. Breakfast |
There you are!
Glad to see Yukon invited you back. I'm crossing my fingers you received your top three for Pref (I think that's where the story's at). And even though I'm over 30 I still like TSwift, so yay Tribute! |
The next morning was preference day! I really wanted to be able to go back to a full schedule of 3 chapters. I wanted to go to my favorite and then my 2 that were just so so. When I got my schedule from my rho gamma I only had two. When I looked more closely I saw that it was Tribute and Kona. I was really dissapointed to be cut from Yukon. I had liked them from the very beginning and I thought that there was a reason why the had stayed on my schedule while so many of my other favorites cut me. I also had two breaks in a row before I went to my first party... I didn't want any time to dwell on it. The only thing I was happy about was that I didn't have to back to Breakfast. I was going to stick with it though. I had told myself that I would always go all the way through preference and then decide if I wanted to join the ones I had left. I also didn't dislike either of the chapters that I got asked back to, they just didn't excite me as much as others.
After my breaks I went to Kona first. During there preference ceremony they really grew on me. The girl I talked was not awkward at all! They read letters that were really heartfelt and I saw girls tearing up. Then we watched video that showed a silly side to them. I loved being able to see the balance. While they hadn't been my favorite all week I could see myself being happy there. Then I went to Tribute and talked to a girl who I had talked to 2 other times before during recruitment. We were still able to have a great conversation it hadn't been like we had run out of things to talk about! Their decoration were also very pretty but that was just an added plus. When the ceremony actually started the read a rho gamma letter and all sang a song together. Again, girls started tearing up. At the end I knew I also would be happy in this chapter even though they didn't stand out at the beginning either. They had also grown on me Going to preferencing I had no idea what to do at first. Both chapters had not been on my radar at first and both really grew on me during this round. I talked to multiple people and my rho gamma. One girl in my rho gamma group had made a comment about how she remebered me saying that I liked Tribute. This took my off gaurd because I didn't really remeber saying that to her but I took note that someone else had noticed me liking them. When I talked to my rho gamma I also figured out that I had more consistanly like tribute than kona. I know that could count on Tribute to be full of girls who I could easily talk to based off of how all my conversations there had been easy. I also liked that tribute had obviously remembered me since I talked to one girl multiple times. At Kona I never talked to the same person once. I would still be happy with Kona but I ranked them... 1. Tribute 2. Kona The funny thing is that once I submitted my decision I really wanted to get the one I ranked first. The whole week hadn't seemed to go the way I had wanted it to. It seemed like each day I got cut from more of my favorites. For once I wanted it to be the time that I actually got asked back to the one that I had decided I liked the most. Panhellenic had really emphasized the importance of making decisions for yourself and I really wanted this decision I had made for myself to be worth it by Tribute being the one I would join. |
I'm really glad you decided to keep going! Can't wait to hear how it works out!
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The next morning I k=new I would be joining a sorority. If we maximize our options after preference day we a guaranteed a bid. I knew I would be happy with either one of the ones I put down but I really wanted recruitment to go my way for once and to join Tribute. We had a brunch with all of the pnms which had better food than the dorms! We also watched a video summarizing the week and found out what chapters our rho gammas are in. Mine is a Pike Place which I would have never guessed! During this whole thing we had to sit on our bids... when we were finally told we could open our bids I hurried to open mine and I accidentally ripped it a little... but I was happy because it said that I had been invited to join.....
TRIBUTE also known as....... SIGMA KAPPA |
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