!!!!! BID DAY!!!!!
Nothing had been mentioned throughout the week that if you didn't get a bid on Bid Day, you would get a phone call earlier in the day so I was not waiting or dreading a phone call like most. I was oblivious to this concept. I'm pretty sure we were supposed to go to the Greek Office at 5pm or so and we were supposed to line up and wait to be individually called in to find out IF we got a bid and if so, which chapter it was from. So after hours and hours and hoooouuuuuuurrrrrssss [it's a painful wait, for anyone who hasn't had to experience it], I went to the Greek Office and saw that a significant line had already formed. More waiting.
Finally it was my turn...
I walked in the office, sat down, and was handed an envelope.
I opened it.......and closed it right away....and just burst into tears.....
The Greek Advisor anxiously asked "Good tears or bad tears?!
" I gave him a thumbs up and he let out a big sigh of relief and handed me a pen to sign with.
Before he let me leave the room, he asked to see who my bid was from so I took it out of the envelope and showed him that I was extended a bid from the fabulous ladies of
Fleece!!!!!
At my school, we don't do "The Running of the Girls" or whatever other schools call it.....Instead, when you leave the Greek Office, you go to the main area of the Student Union and wait with the girls who were already there. Then the Rho Chis come in and put everyone in order and we are escorted onto a stage 5 at a time. One of the faculty members acts as the announcer and, one-by-one, she says the name of the woman and which chapter she's now a member of and then the new member jumps into the crowd of sisters standing on the floor. I am mildly biased, but I prefer this method over running any day!