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So I got on the Mars bus for Party 2. When I walked in it was beautiful. The girls were wearing formal dresses in a bright lovely color. Of course, this was back in the day when everyone wore the same dress as you could mandate that uniform costuming. The Jupiters had been wearing all black – it was very formal and nice, but this bright lovely color was warm and inviting.
The girl that got me was Stacy that I had met earlier in the week and I was so happy to see her. We had really clicked and it was great to see her again. She told me she had to fight to pref me as Leigh the chapter president also wanted to pref me. Of course that would have made it hard since she conducted their ceremony! So we had our food and I chatted with Stacy. It was great. For the ceremony, they brought us all into one room where the rushees were seated in chairs in a semi-circle facing the front of the room. Our heart sister stood behind us. I don’t remember what was said, but at some point, our heart sister gave us the flower they were holding (the sorority flower) for us to hold. It had this small card attached to the stem and on the card was attached a very small pillow and pinned to the pillow was their pledge pin. I thought that was the coolest thing! Wow – we got a pin to wear as a pledge?! Cool. Would I get that at Jupiter too if I went Jupiter? What a moving ceremony. Then they gave us all a piece of their dream cake. We could have one bite and then we had this satin pouch to put the rest of the piece of cake into. We then had to put it under this pillow and they hoped our dream was the same as theirs.
I left there so turned around and mixed up. Mars had this amazing moving ceremony. I had been a Jupiter girl all summer, all week. I really liked Mars, and their pref was the best no doubt. It was the best party, my second party, and now I was all confused for the silent bus ride back to campus.
The worst part was getting back to campus and waiting for everyone to get back and be in the huge ballroom so that we could all sign our Pref cards together. As I sat there waiting for all of the girls to come back and be given a card to sign, I thought about what to do. For the first time all week I had a real decision to make and it was the most important one. Most all of my choices had been made for me as the only groups I dropped were in making my Pref decisions. But here I was, thinking what to do, what to put first Jupiter or Mars. Instead of thinking which one I wanted the most, I thought about which one I would be most disappointed to not get. If I put Jupiter first and didn’t get them, would that be worse than putting Mars first and not getting them? The other thing I also considered was that I had been wanting Jupiter all week and I didn't need to be swayed by just one party.
When I thought about who I would be most disappointed to not see on bid day and how I had been leaning all week, I knew when I got my card what I wanted to do. I got the Pref card and filled in the bubble next to Jupiter for First Preference and Mars for Second Preference.
I turned in my card, and we all went back to the dorm. It was really late, and my suitemate and two girls down the hall joined me and my roommate in our room for pizza. What was funny is my suitemate and I had both preffed Jupiter and Mars and had both put Jupiter first. The two girls down the hall had preffed Venus and Earth and had both put Venus first. It was 11:30 or so before the pizza arrived and we had the best time chilling out and relaxing after a hectic week.
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