Ok so here is the key:
Dayton =
Alpha Xi Delta
Toledo =
Delta Zeta
Cleveland =
Zeta Tau Alpha
Columbus =
Kappa Alpha Theta
What is so great about the greek system at ONU, is even thought we're all rivals, we all still get at along. I was the only Theta in my area of study (environmental science), so my study-buddies became 2 Alpha Xi's, 2 DZ's, and 3 Zeta's. We had a lot of classes together.
Anyway, so bid day came. Melissa, Julie and I all went Theta. Amanda was a DZ, and Nicole and Ann went Zeta. Naturally, our Rc was a Theta. I had NO idea! Our hall ended up with 7 new Theta's, more than any other hall on campus. Theta had the shortest pledge period out of all 4, so we were initiated at 4 weeks, Zeta and Alpha Xi went at 6 weeks, and DZ went at 8 weeks.
I had an amazing pledge period, and Erin ended up becoming my big. Well... apparently, me being a Theta and Amanda being a DZ was a problem for Amandas sisters. we continued to eat our meals together, along with the rest of the girls in our hall. Amanda was the only DZ in our Hall, and her Big had a big beef with Theta, for some reason. I never got the whole story. But Amanda was forbidden to talk to me. We were friends one day, and she ignored me the next. I never even got a reason why from her. She just stopped talking to me. I was really hurt. I thought stuff like that wasn't supposed to happen. Amanda ended up transferring to a school closer to her hometown in the middle of our sophomore year.
Happy ending though. She added me as a friend on Facebook a few months ago! I wrote her and told her how I wished things had been different in college, but that I was happy to see her. She wrote back that everyone does dumb things in college, and she was glad to find me too. So while we're not close like we were for those few months in college, ten years later, I now have closure.
