At my school, there is a week in between Round 2 and Round 3--possibly the longest week of my entire life. I tried to keep my mind off recruitment but I could help but think about which chapters I got invited back to. I knew I had the four least popular chapters on campus, so I was hopeful that I would get invited back to all four. I tried not to get my hopes up as much as last time, though.
On the day of
Round 3, I was at the store picking up some nail polish when my cell phone rang. I looked at the screen and my heart dropped: my Rho Chi was calling me. I picked it up. "Hi, SweetAndSour," she said in a calm voice. "I wanted to let you know that you have two parties tonight, at
Phish Food and
Peanut Butter Cup." I tried not to let on how upset I was, thanked her for letting me know I didn't have to get ready as early, and hung up the phone.
Again, I was devastated. How was I dropped by half my chapters for the second round in a row? How was it that only the "bottom two" chapters wanted me? I already struggled a bit with self-confidence, and this surely wasn't helping. Going into recruitment, I
thought I was pretty enough, friendly enough, fun enough, smart enough. But apparently I wasn't.
Nonetheless, I stayed positive because I remembered how much I loved
Phish Food during Round 2. So, I went off to my two parties...
I don't remember for sure, but I'm almost positive my first party of the night was
Peanut Butter Cup. To be honest, I remember NOTHING from this party. I do remember that, after two rounds of actually feeling a connection with the girls I talked to, I didn't get that this round. The girls I spoke with were certainly awkward, and just not the types of girls I would've hung out with normally. Their skit (Round 3 is skit night) was cute, but
Peanut Butter Cup was slowly fading in my mind.
Next up was
Phish Food. I didn't really connect with the girl who picked me up at the door, although I remember being reassured when she told me that she, too, was friends with mostly guys in high school and never saw herself joining a sorority. The skit was fine (I wasn't really big on the skits anyway), but I remember feeling like I was really pushing to make a connection. I knew I didn't see myself in
Peanut Butter Cup, so I wanted
Phish Food to work out SO badly. This probably contributed to a somewhat lackluster Round 3, but I still knew that
Phish Food was my top choice.
I went back to my Rho Chis to rank the sororities for Pref--although, again, it didn't really matter since you can go back to 3 and I only had 2.
My order was:
Phish Food
Peanut Butter Cup
Stay tuned for pref tomorrow...
