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Summer 2008…
All summer the biggest reason I wanted to go back to school was because I really wanted to start White Sox’s recruitment! I had gotten a couple updates and newsletters over the summer, and reading them made me very excited for the potential opportunities I had in front of me. I also took the time to do a little bit of research about the White Sox on my own, and learn about what they stand for (that’s how I actually stumbled across this lovely site! J)
Now OF COURSE, I didn’t assume that they would be like, “Oh yeah, sure, just because you’re a junior, and we need numbers, here’s a bid!” I knew that if they were going to invite me to pledge, they were going to do it because they thought I would be a great addition to the chapter. Still, I was very excited to learn more about the White Sox.
Fall 2008…
So White Sox’s recruitment was JUST about to start. I had been waiting for this for so long, I couldn’t wait to meet everyone and learn more about their recruitment process! Finally it was the night of their first meeting. (This technically wasn’t the first day of recruitment because formal recruitment was still going on). I’d say about 60 girls showed up, and what was most interesting to me was that all the girls seemed to be VERY different, which I liked. I also liked the fact that from the few girls I met, I met some who I could definitely see myself getting along with and being friends with. Two of the women from the White Sox who were going to be helping out with recruitment gave us the run down about how a colony works, what new members would be doing, etc. I know some of you are familiar with a colony recruitment process, but I don’t know if they differ depending on schools or chapters—so basically there were several open events in the next month where we would get to meet other White Sox’s from nearby schools, and learn about their philanthropy. Then the weekend before their own bid day there was going to be something similar to interviews, that you would have to be invited to. It’s during these interviews that they would decide if they want to extend a bid to you or not. After they gave us all the information and answered questions, we played a little icebreaker game before the meeting was over. When the game was over they told us they could answer any other questions we might have, but that they were done with the meeting so we could head home if we wanted. I thought I would stick around for a few minutes and introduce myself to the other White Sox who was running the meeting (I had already met the other one from the events last year. Since she is going to be the one staying on campus with the new White Sox and since I will be referring to her often, I will call her Ozzie—as in Ozzie Guillen, the manager of the White Sox hehe). So anyways, I introduced myself to the other White Sox, and on my way out I was going to say hi to Ozzie as well. She was like, oh hey, come her for a second and pulled me aside. She told me that since I had been coming to the events last year and I showed that I’m interested and enthusiastic about this that she already wanted to invite me to an interview! I was so excited!! So of course I said yes, and left for the night. I was still planning on going to the open events because I wanted to meet all the other PNM’s and White Sox who would be helping out. I could not wait for the next event!!
I anxiously waited allllll week for the next recruitment event to come! As part of the recruitment efforts the White Sox had things like a Facebook group for everyone interested to join and they would sent out Facebook invites to their events. I was happy to see that interest was growing as 200+ women joined the group! So the day before the official recruitment starting event, I checked up on the invite to see if there was going to be anyone else I knew coming. I saw some familiar faces who I had seen at other events…and then I saw HER. It’s a very long story but basically she was a girl who was on my very bad side because of the smack she talked about my best friends, who was at one point good friends with her boyfriend. She was just very malicious and mean, and you do NOT do that to my best friend. My heart just sank. I had been so excited for this and the fact that she could potentially be my sister really upset me. And WHAT THE HELL!? Thanks to the Facebook news feed I had noticed that she had received a bid from Tigers the year before?! Well I guess she depledged…So I thought about it all it for a while. This was something I had really grown looking forward too. I knew it was something I wanted. So I decided that if I did see her I was just be civil. I could say hi, but I didn’t have to say much else. And if we were both extended bids, that didn’t mean we had to be best friends. I mean in such a LARGE group of girls, you’re not necessarily going to get along with everyone, right? I just hoped everything would turn out right…
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