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Wednesday there were two parties on the schedule.

The first one was County Seat. This was an interest group that was still looking to get picked up by a national sorority. It was held in one of the larger classrooms. I do not remember a damn thing about this party. I could see where being in a new group would be kind of neat but the girls didn't really make an impression on me.

The second party was Reunion. It was held in the room where campus weekend dances were usually held. This was a group that had recolonized the semester before. Now, for the back story on this one. My boyfriend was good friends with most of the "old" members of Reunion and he and I had spent a lot of time hanging out in their suite which happened to be in our dorm. I had been pledging a service group the previous spring and my plan had been to pledge Reunion first thing my sophomore year. In the interim, they recolonized. Part of me wanted to blow off this party to support my friends, but I realized that it wasn't the new girls' fault - it's not like they stole the charter out from under them. So I went to the party and ended up having a really good time. Their theme was cute and the girls I talked to seemed nice and very down to earth.

Molly also had an issue with Reunion. Her next door neighbor, whom she was extremely close to, had been a sister of the "old" chapter at our school several years earlier and wanted her to pledge. After Molly didn't get a bid from Merry Go Round, she went through Reunion's colonization rush. She was chosen to join the colony, but realized fairly quickly that it wasn't for her - she was just doing it to please her neighbor. To be fair there were quite a few girls that also dropped out of the colony - it was something that hadn't happened on our campus for a long time and no one knew what to expect.