FIU Recruitment Story
 

Hi guys! Today was my first day of recruitment at FIU and I thought I would start a thread. I don't really have much to say yet since the first night was mostly telling the girls what sororities are on campus and meeting our rho gammas. Tomorrow is our real first day going to visit all the sororities. I'm super excited and soo nervous. I can't help but worry that I'm going to screw up somehow but I'm hoping for the best. This year we have about 450 girls going through recruitment which is a lot for us. Wish me luck!

I haven't really decided yet. I think I'll decide when I have something more specific to say.

Have fun!

Hey, I think Sigma Kappa is a new colony at FIU this year!

Yeah, but they're not participating in formal recruitment for the sororities- they're dropping out after tonight and will be doing their own recruitment week toward the end of this month.

To the OP, good luck. :)

enjoy the experience that awaits!

I'm going through FIU's recruitment as well! :)

Good Luck!

Best of luck FIUpanther!

Ok I didnt have a chance to update this earlier today about yesterday's event but today I'm way too excited to not share this. Yesterday was long and tiring and I spent a lot of time worrying that the girls wouldnt click with me and invite me back. It happened that one of the sororities I ranked for today didnt invite me back and the one I didn't really feel a connection with did. I dont feel it was a great loss because deep down I felt that I wouldnt have fit in at the sorority that dropped me. However, one of the sororities that I had really liked on paper and from pre-recruitment events did invite me back and it made me so happy because I had been worrying about it. Now on to tonight. It was sooo amazing!!! All the girls were great and I have no idea how I'm going to pick between two of them. I can really see myself in either one and I left both parties feeling a real connection and I think they did too. I could not be more excited for tomorrow or more hopeful for sunday (bid day). I'm just so happy that I went through this and I've already had a chance to meet so many incredible girls. Wish me luck!!!!

Luck is already on your side - throwing positive vibes your way!

Ok long story short bid day is over and I got my first choice and could not be happier!! I'm a baby panda! Alpha Omicron Pi <3

Congrats to you and AOII!


FWIW, Sigma Kappa will begin meeting with PNM's starting on the 30th of this month.

CONGRATS TO YOU! I'm so happy! Hopefully I'll run into you one day to say hi in person! I was there to watch some of my favorite sisters and my lovely AOII Rho Gamma friend come off stage today!

Maybe we'll get an update from FIUPanther, too!

congratulations!

Congratulations to you and AOII!

This week was incredible & stressful at the same time.
All of the sororities put on such amazing parties.

We have six NPC sororities: AOPi, DPhiE, Phi Sig, Tri Sig, AXiD, Phi Mu
First night: Sorority 101 (attend 6)
Second night: Philanthropy night (attend max. 5)
Third night: Sisterhood & Traditions (attend max. 3)
Fourth night: Preference night (attend max. 2)

We got our envelopes with our bids inside from our Rho Gammas this morning. Our tradition is to wear your new member shirt underneath a zip up jacket. Your Rho Gamma group gets on stage in front of all sororities (waiting with balloons & signs & cheers!) and turn around while unzipping your jacket...then run to your new family!

I accepted a bid from DPhiE today! Delta Lambda class. :)

(I'll try to post pictures of all new classes, soon)

P.S.-None of our sororities have houses. So afterward girls went to various locations on campus/sister's houses to have their welcoming parties. (gifts, food & mingling!)

CONGRATS to you and DPhiE!

That sounds like a fun way to do revealing.

Congrats to you, FIUpanther and DPhiE. Even more congrats to our new sister ching237 and AOII! Please stop by the AOII forum and say hi!

Congrats to both of you ladies and AOII as well as DPhiE!

Go introduce yourselves to your new sisters in your respective forums. I'm sure they are eager to meet you. :D

Congrats to you and to AOII! Roses!

BabyPink and others-

Do you think there is a chance that sororities at FIU will consider some kind of housing (or even chapter rooms) at some point since the sororities are becoming quite large? Is this largely a commuter/urban campus?

It is something that we as a Panhellenic addressed with the university last year. It doesn't look likely from my point of view, at least not for several years.

Some chapters are not properly prepared to finance something of this scale. While the school does not care if all groups have housing or suites, there are those in the Greek Life office who seem very insistant, either all or none. It is not ruled out, however. Many of the plots of land that are promised to fraternity housing may never see a house as most of the fraternities can not seem to "get it together" and have had several years to do so. There is also the idea of converting the least popular dorm into something of use, but I am not sure if that is still up for consideration. I'm not sure how much this year's Panhellenic (PC) has addressed it. I'm willing to bet not much.

I don't think FIU will have sorority housing for quite a while, if ever, like BabyPink said.

Yeah, the sororities are large and Greek life is getting bigger- but we are still something like 85% commuter. Combine that with the lack of available land (573 acres compared to a school like UF with about 2,000 acres) and you have a very small chance of sorority housing. (Not to mention we have these "nature preserves" that are just a waste of land.)

Although I won't rule it out. President Maidique has been trying to move FIU towards the traditional campus and he's made some strides, but again, not likely in the near future.

FIU still has a long way to go.

They are not a waste of land! Aren't the wild dogs still living there? I haven't seen them for a while. I heard they were trying to get rid of them, but surely some survived...

Haha, I think they are. We have plenty of swampland in Florida. :p

And I haven't heard anything about "wild hogs" in my year of being here... I think it's one of those phased-out superstitions- along with the "attacking ducks" I've heard about.

No...the attacking ducks are true. There are still people around who have witness sandwich snatchings!

As for the dogs...haven't seem them since Fall 06, but that means nothing. I never saw them before that either and I lived on campus from 05-06!

CONGRATS to the new AOII and DPhiE babies!!!