OP, I definitely feel you. Since February '07 (my Bid Day) I have been so super Kappa'd out and rah-rah about sorority life, and some days you just need a break. Like you, I have been really involved and held a lot of leadership roles, and I know how frustrating it can be when some girls don't pitch in and just reap the benefits. Right now we're in I-Week, which is the week leading up to Initiation, and a lot of girls are feeling it. It's a week of big events and it's often the same group of girls getting the last-minute things done, so resentment can build. But it's all forgotten after Initiation is over and we have a bunch of brand new sisters. It's the same with recruitment, as Jocelyn pointed out - a long week of stress and pulling things together and high emotions, but it ends with a lot of happiness.
Much like the other posters, I would advise that you take a step back and hang out with your non-greek friends. When you do, don't spend the whole time complaining about this or that sister not doing her part. I'm sure you wouldn't anyway, but for future readers - it doesn't look good for you or for your org, it's not sisterly and your non-Greek friends don't give a flying you-know-what. Just take time to relax and come back fresh.
Also, realize that it WILL get done without you (um, unless you're an officer directly responsible for an event, in which case you can't just abscond). But if you have the opportunity to step back and let someone else handle it for a little while, take it. Sometimes I think the super-involved girls do so much that the other sisters don't think they need to help, so they don't. They may not even realize the "do-ers" are getting burnt out.
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Originally Posted by thetygerlily
Isn't it funny that everyone is always ready for the seniors to go, regardless of how great they may be? The end of the year is that awkward change of power time, when the seniors don't really own anything but are still there with plenty of opinions. Although I may have missed them as individuals, I was always ready for the seniors to go... but I also know when I was a senior everyone else was ready for my class to graduate too  |
It was so funny for me to read this because this is where I am now. When I was an underclassman I was always ready for them to leave - except when we couldn't figure out some part of ritual or remember the words to a song or figure out how to coordinate some detail of recruitment/whatever, and then we needed them! But the rest of the time we were sick of hearing from them because we thought we knew everything.
Now as a second-semester senior, I'm realizing how hard it is to let go! My senior sisters and I have been talking a lot about this. We've been running the chapter for so long that we really do know what to do, so it's hard to bite our tongues and not get involved when we see younger officers about to make a mistake. But they've made it clear they don't want to hear it, and I remember when I was in that place! When the seniors graduated it was a mix of
Wow, this is a fresh start with us in the driver's seat! and
Crap, now we just have to figure it out ourselves when we don't know what to do.