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I had rushed via COB. I really didn't expect to get a bid. The night that bids were being distributed, we had to wait by the phone between certain hours (I think it was between 7 and 11pm or something). If the phone rang, it meant that we didn't get a bid (this was 1990, so no cell phones); and if we were receiving a bid, they'd come to our door.
My dorm had five rooms per suite. There was a locked, exterior door to the suite, so to get into the suite to even knock on the bedroom doors, you had to knock and wait for someone in their room to hear it. Every time I heard a knock on the suite door or the phone rang, my stomach dropped. I remember yelling "not now!!" at anyone who dared call during that time, and told my roommate she better use someone else's phone if she needed to call anyone (although girls in 3 out of the 5 rooms on my suite were rushing - W, C and I).
When the knock on my door finally happened, I opened it, and there was the sister who I had gone to HS with (which shocked me, because I thought that a fight over a boy in HS was going to keep me from getting bid), bid in hand. I hugged her and started crying, while a few seconds later, someone else was at my neighbor W's door, and W started screaming. I honestly could not believe it.
It was then that we heard the phone ring in C's room. THAT was really hard, because we were so very excited. We hugged her before going off to our bid night celebration, and as we were leaving, the president had come to see C to make sure she was okay (which I thought was very sweet, considering that three of us had rushed together and she didn't make it). I don't remember how many girls did not make it, considering there were only 5 slots open.
What was really cute is that when we were gone, someone had decorated our doors.
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