Part 2. The bad year.
1. Get back on your frigging Horse. Don't know when to die.
Ok, its still Spring of the same year. In fact its about 24 hours after the first attempt failed. I am already on the phone with some of the other Nationals that i spoke to in the past and am still telling people that this will work.
This is where it gets darker.
Coming back in the Fall there was a moratorium on new Fraternities. That means no one was allowed to colonize. So now I was faced with trying to form a group when I couldn't even show them a national because I didn't know when the moratorium was going to end. As I said before the original group had disintegrated which left . . . one member: Me again.
2. Have another beer
Thats not really a rule lol. But it helps to unwind and reaffirm what you are doing.
At this point I went back and talked to everyone again . . .
I had just gotten into a car accident so it was much harder to manifest the sheer energy this time, but I slowly got attracted some people . . . i think it finally got up to maybe 15 tops at times to meet in barren meeting rooms.
And then slowly we got the point and started acting together socially.
I also kept recruiting ghost members. If someone listened to my spiel and seemed interested or was an acquaintance I wrote their name, activites, and GPA own on my list. And some of them were among the most prominent Students in school. Student government members, Editor of the paper etc. . .
I don't think one of those ghost members actually ended up joining, and out of the 10-15 that sat through endless meetings during that bleak semester, maybe 4 of them ended up joining.
Quite an attrition rate. Expect it.
However, that ghost list might very well have been what got me the deal with the Nationa's that agreed, because they wanted an interest group, not a "cold start".
And in my defense. It was the timing of the colonization that rendered a lot of those people unable to join. We colonized like mere weeks before school was over in the Spring. And many of them were seniors.
And we did get all the numbers that national's asked of us. Its just that almost none of them were among the people that were around that Bleak Fall, and only one of them other than me had been there the previous Spring.
Continued . . . some tips.
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