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Sorry for the delay! I've had a very crazy day... anyways.. here's some updates!!! I'll give you a few weeks worth of updates cause I really wanna finish my story... Also, I just want to let you know, the girl I had problems with in the past will now be known as Mean Girl...just so she's easy to identify lol
WHITE SOX RECRUITMENT WAS OFFICIALLY HERE!!!!! I was soooo excited! I couldn’t wait to meet the other PNM’s, but I was just NOT expecting that many girls!! I made my way to the building where the event was being held, and I turn the corner, and there is just a huge line going out the door. I was surprised but so happy to see just how much interested had grown. I waited in line, and when I got to the room, it was packed! There were no chairs left or anything—I’d estimate that there were 200+ girls!
Now I did see Mean Girl there. I’m not sure if she saw me too, but if she did, I was prepared to be polite… I mean she’s obviously looking for the same thing I am…and I’m sure she was excited like me, what would be the point of continuing drama?
But I did also run into someone I was not expecting—a friend who went to the same grade school and high school as me! We weren’t ever really close, but always friendly with each other, and she’s an awesome girl, so it was nice to see her there! I also saw some familiar faces from the last event, and even two of the girls who came to the first events last semester! I had thought they were no longer interested since I had not seen them at the last event, so it was a (good) surprise when I saw them.
The event was basically the same as the little “unofficial” event they held the week before. They just gave us the run down on the process of recruitment and what the steps we would potentially go through during the colony period up to the installation of the chapter. At the end of the meeting they announced that if there was anyone who was already for sure interested that they wanted to do an interview at the end of recruitment they could sign up after. Well, girls just swarmed the tables! Lol! Since I already had signed out a time for an interview, I decided to just leave for tonight… There would be a lot more getting to know you with other girls at the next event, where we were going to learn about their philanthropy.
At the philanthropy event, we got to watch a video about the sorority itself and also a video about their philanthropy. We then did a short project for this philanthropy. It was very simple but cute and creative. I liked the fact that it was easy enough to make, but it still gave us the opportunity to meet chat with other girls. Then they gave us a bit more information about the upcoming interviews, their preference ceremony, bid day and what not. Before I left I picked up a little reminder card for the interview I would be having that day and I then stuck around to talk with some of the girls I had been getting to know. It was a nice little event once again, but I just couldn’t WAIT for the weekend!!!
The last event of White Sox’s colony recruitment was probably the most fun event of them all. We met all the wonderful women who work for White Sox who would be helping conduct interviews, decide who would be getting bids and everything. Then they gave us opportunities to split into groups a few times and just get to know all the girls who could be our potential sisters. It was a lot of fun! Again, it was just so interesting to meet all the different girls from different backgrounds—and there were definitely girls I would be happy to call my sister! It just made me soooo excited for the whole process. I just wanted it to be bid day! The suspense was killing me!!!
By now there were some familiar faces in the crowed. WSPNM 1 and WSPNM 2 we still interested, along with another girl whom I had met last year (WSPNM 3), my friend from grade school, and Mean Girl. I mean, I guess I wasn’t so great to see Mean Girl, but whatever. It was really great that I was starting to get to know some of the girls.
The next day was our formal interview session. It was a one on one with a member from the White Sox. I was getting myself soooo nervous, I was so afraid of letting my nerves take over and that I would just completely blow the whole thing. Well, I’m happy to say that I didn’t let my nerves get the best of me! I was very calm, and the whole interview was laid back and easy going. But I just left with a funny feeling that things did not go great. I mean, the woman who interviewed me asked me questions about what I could bring to the organization, why I wanted to join, how would my friends describe me, etc., but I just didn’t get a great vibe. Every answer I gave I got a feeling that it wasn’t good enough. So, I left not feeling as confident as I would have hoped. Now it was going to be even HARDER to wait for the invites. The next day we would be able to go pick up a letter that said if we would be invite to the preference round or if we had been released. I just wanted it to be the next day sooooo badly…
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