I think it's a shame that new member programs are so short. I'm glad that I had to wait until the following semester to initiate. We had to make our grades first---emphasizing why we were in college in the first place. It also gave us time to get to know everyone, new members and old. Time to learn about our organization and take pride in it. Also my chapter did COB so it allowed the entire group of new members to be initiated at the same time----none of this 2-3 initiations a semester. What I see now is less time to bond and care about everything because everyone is stressed out trying to get it done in a short time. I have never understood why the time was shorteed so drastically....now there are many more dropping out than back then.
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