So it's day three, and it's SISTERHOOD DAY  I was so excited for this day because my favorite outfit had been planned for "sundress day" as it is informally called. My roommate and I got ready and I felt butterflies all the way to our recruitment group's meeting spot. We were allowed back to up to five chapters that day.
I noticed right away that our group had shrunk a little. We had four girls drop out of recruitment from our group, but the rest of us were really excited to be there and all looking forward to (hopefully) five 45 minute parties. I got my list back and opened it up. After reading it, I excused myself to go to the bathroom. I had been dropped from Sierra Mist, Dr Pepper, Root Beer, and Sprite. I didn't want to cry in front of the other girls. I got into the bathroom, and my roommate was right behind me, already in tears. She had only been invited back to two parties, and one of the chapters she really knew wasn't for her. We talked to each other and both decided that we at least each had one chapter on our list we knew we could see ourselves in. I was excited about Grape Soda and was open to seeing if I would like Mountain Dew and Pepsi. We left the bathroom, touched up our makeup, and went to our parties. My break was at the end so I had four in a row.
Coke- We were back at their room in a University building. They had their round tables again, but this time covered in beads and I learned we would be talking while making bracelets for kids. We had one member and about 7 PNMs surrounding her and I felt so bad because it was obvious she was nervous. She asked the table if anyone knew what they were majoring in. Literally no one responded for a good twenty seconds (I was literally squinting down my string to make a knot, I'm awful at crafts and was trying to focus on not letting beads fly everywhere). I looked up and realized that only two other girls were making the bracelets and everyone else was just staring down the member. I answered that I was Pre-Law and she and I chatted for a little. She then asked the table if they had any questions for her. One girl asked if she liked their sororities mascot. The member had sort of an eccentric answer (can't say it without revealing the house), and the girl who asked the question went "that's strange". It was a painful round, I made small talk with the member but I focused on my bracelet to avoid the tension of the member basically talking at other girls in the circle. They had no video.
Pepsi - This chapter came out and started singing right away when we got to the house. We were quickly hurried indoors because it started to rain. This chapter also had a craft activity planned. We were creating gift bags for the chapters philanthropy and basically got markers and stickers to decorate them. I sat down with one of the girls and we made small talk, but she was very shy and quite nervous. She started absent mindedly making a bag herself, so I started to draw on mine. I realized we hadn't said much for a minute, and I looked up and she was leaned in kind of hovering over me. It doesn't sound awkward perhaps but it was really uncomfortable and I just started drawing stars all over the bag. Eventually, we were bumped and I talked to a girl while we walked into a large room with a TV set up. They turned on a video, which was showcasing a lot of pictures but about a minute in, I realized half of the pictures weren't of their members. What was strange was I didn't get the vibe that it was a video their nationals had sent them, as they had pictures of their members. Maybe there was a reason for it, but since they didn't explain it came off as a little odd to me. I did like the second girl I talked to though
Grape Soda - I was so excited to be back at this chapter, because honestly at the time it was what was pushing me through. The girls were all on their grand staircase and sang to us as we walked in. It was really cute and their decorations were adorable. I talked to one of the girls I had the day before, and she talked a lot about her boyfriend but more how her sisters had been supportive of the relationship, so it tied into their house. I talked to a second girl who was a little less fun, but while she was more serious we still got along well. Their video made me fall in LOVE with the chapter. They had a few social pictures, but what I loved was that they highlighted their sisterhoods. Their big/little pictures had photos of girls with huge smiles on their faces, and I could tell it was a group of genuine girls. They also talked about their philanthropy, and the event they did sounded like a lot of fun. After the video was done, I returned to talking to that second girl for a bit and I asked her about their volunteer work. She said they did a lot together as a chapter with the animal shelter and with kids, both of which I love to do as well. She told me every chapter on campus requires service hours but rather than just having people do them, their chapter organizes monthly events for the sisters to fulfill them together so they can bond. She also said a lot of girls did more than the requirement, which I liked. I left loving that house.
Mountain Dew- This was the last chapter I went to. At this point the rain had turned into a pour but the girls couldn't let us in their house until the party's start time had been reached. A girl next to me started yelling at their house stuff like "No one wants to even join this chapter, just let us in!". I was surprised to see a lot of girls agreeing and kind of joining in. The girl on my left shook her head and just said "That's so rude, a girl from my recruitment girl is standing in this line and she actually likes this chapter a lot". I'm not going to lie, having so many girls being so rude about it clouded my "open mind" a little, I started to worry about if I should consider them or not. I tried to remain confident in having an open mind, and once again I talked to the girl who I had talked to the last two days. I loved talking to her, but I was kind of surprised I had only met three members at this point. Either way, I had my best conversation of the day again with her. She told me all about her sisterhood, and looking around the room she said "I'm about to tell you something that's probably taboo". She then told me how glad she was to see me everyday and that she thought our conversations were so real. She told me how her boyfriend of freshman year had broken up with her at a date party and stormed out of it. She was so upset to the point of getting sick, but her sisters called her a cab and one left with her (and brought her date) back to the house. She told me how when the other girls got back from the date party, they got in their cars and came back with her favorite ice cream and two horror films (Nothing with romance! she joked). I could tell it had meant a lot to her. I was bumped and the second girl I talked to had that very open personality you love or hate, and I loved it. She was super outgoing and anything you asked she would be very honest about. It was time for the video, and where I could tell that this chapter wasn't as social as some of the ones I had met the day before, they seemed to have some socials. I left with my heart torn. During recruitment, I'll admit I had some shallow thoughts, and one was that I was scared if I joined an "unpopular" sorority that I'd regret it or something
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We ranked three chapters. I only had to rank one chapter as 2 and it was Coke
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