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Pi Beta Phi at Northwestern just took 44 incredible and amazing pledges, including my rush crush!
I had the most incredible experience during my first rush from the other side! Last night, as I was supposed to be preffing my rush crush, she actually preffed me, saying, "I need to tell you that before I began rush, I had my heart set on another sorority. Then I met you, and you singlehandedly changed my mind. After your informals, and getting to know you better and meeting so many amazing people, I realized that I am destined to be a Pi Phi, and I want you to be my big sister!" (as I burst into tears because I was so touched!) I did my best to tell her how much I wanted her to be a Pi Phi too without breaking any Panhellenic rules, and as I stood with her and listened to our Pref ceremony from the other side, I was amazed at how much Pi Phi has come to mean to me, how my year in Pi Phi has meant more to me than perhaps any other experience I have ever had in my life, and how very much I wanted to be able to share that with her. I seriously tossed and turned all night and couldn't sit still all day until our bid list came in because I was so afraid that this girl was not going to wind up in our house. When the list came, someone yelled to me (as I was running down from the third floor), "NUCUTIEPIE, YOU GOT YOUR GIRL!!!" I started screaming and jumping up and down and when she came to the house with the rest of her pledge class tonight, she and I ran for each other and started hugging and jumping up and down and screaming and crying because we were so happy.
We also had a girl pledge whose mother was a Pi Phi and whose lifelong dream has been to become a Pi Phi. When she came in tonight, she was absolutely glowing with happiness! She already knew the words to Ring Ching Ching when we started singing it and told one of my friends that she knew she was home.
As I explained in another thread, Northwestern's greek community has had some image problems this year, but to have had such an amazingly positive experience with my very first recruitment as an active really reaffirmed to me why I love being in a sorority and why people stay connected to their GLOs not only during their college years, but for their entire lives.
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