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Our pledge period was the standard 8 weeks. I do think it's a little short, but I think it can work really well if everything is done right. What I mean by that is, if new members are taught everything they need to know with no fannying about and wasting time. My pledge class wasn't taught anywhere near enough (although I don't blame the sorority, because we were just getting started and our new member educator didn't really know what she was doing), and sadly we were one of those groups walking around with letters on who didn't really know what was behind them. Seriously. We spent our 8 weeks' worth of new member meetings filling out forms and writing checks, while our new member handbooks were never opened. Since my class went through things have gotten a lot better as we've sort of got on our feet now, but I'm sort of sad that I missed doing all the stuff we should have done.
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