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Originally Posted by CherrySonata

At this time, my group had a free period before rankings. I ran to the bathroom, and here's where I made perhaps the biggest mistake of my recruitment career. I heard some of the other girls in the bathroom talking about how much they didn't like some houses or how much they did want to be in other ones, and I managed to convince myself that I shared their opinions. This was awful and always, always, always something I will really regret. I thought I was above letting other people influence my opinions but it happened anyway, without me even realizing it at the time. I will throw in one more word of caution to PNMs: Don't engage in tent talk. The point of recruitment is to find the house that is right for you, not the house that other people think is awesome or the house nobody likes. Just don't do the tent talk thing. I would have been happier about my choices if I hadn't convinced myself that what someone else thought about the houses was what I thought about the houses.

I bolded those particular sentences for a reason. I would like to engrave that in every PNM's brain. There is no bad chapter at my campus. There are only mean people who write and say hateful things. And many pnms miss out on a lifetime of Panhellenic associations for the most stupid, silly reason(s). That is sad.