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My school has 6 NPC Sororities. They are:
Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Omicron Pi
Kappa Delta
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Phi Mu
Zeta Tau Alpha
Since I'm a ballet dancer, I'm going to name them after my favorite ballet companies. In no particular order we have:
San Francisco Ballet
New York City Ballet
Atlanta Ballet
American Ballet Theatre
Pacific Northwest Ballet
Boston Ballet
Most of the groups come into play at orientation. =]
I signed up for the first possible orientation weekend. There was no way I was going to end up in crappy classes. I had met a girl, we'll call her Emily, who was going at the same time I was. She was an out of stater as well, so it was nice to have somebody know what I was feeling. I was really excited about Orientation, because I knew I'd get the chance to meet some sorority women and find out a lot more info.
I checked in for Orientation and went to the opening session. We were told what to expect this weekend and all that lovely business. Then we were split up into our groups and went in for Small Group Session number 1. My leader was adorable and so sweet. She told us all the things she was involved in, and as it turns out, she was an Atlanta Ballet. She was the first sorority woman I had met from my school, and I knew that if they were all like her, I had to be one too. She explained to us that we had to go to 3 breakout sessions, one of which was about Greek Life. Obviously that was the first one I went to.
During the session, they told us all about recruitment and explained that we could sign up at any computer lab on campus while we were there that weekend. I turned to my mom who was with me and she smiled and said "We'll get it done, don't worry."
That night, they had an event called "First Night Out" where all the freshman went to the Rec Center on campus for games and to find out more about student organizations. All of the sororities were going to be there. Emily and I decided we were going to talk to every group we could. First we went to Boston Ballet's table. They had lots of pictures, a scrapbook, and a few Boston Ballet gift items on their table. One of the girls handed us each a pamphlet about their sorority, but didn't say much else, so we left and walked over to New York City Ballet's table. Instantly one of the girls was over talking to us, asking lots of questions. She definitely made me like them a lot. We ended up talking for close to 30 minutes, and by the time we left, all the other sororities except American Ballet Theatre were gone. We walked over to ABT, just to check it out, and again the same thing happened. The girls were so friendly and we talked for about 20 minutes before we had to leave.
So by the end orientation, I already had opinions about most of the sororities. Girls were already tent talking, and it made me a little bit nervous. I really liked NYCB and ABT, but apparently they were the two least popular groups on campus. I heard a lot of girls talking about wanting to be a Pacific Northwest, Atlanta Ballet and San Francisco Ballet. I was just ready for recruitment to begin so I could find out for myself.
Up next: A bump in the road?
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