Okay, so here's a long story, but the background is needed to understand how I wound up where I am....
My freshman year, I talked myself out of participating in Formal Recruitment. One of my best friends decided to go through recruitment, and went Kappa Delta. Within the next week, another of my friends was COR'ed into KD, and was initiated the same time as my first friend. The second friend was my roommate for sophomore year, and I was really excited for her.
The beginning of sophomore year, my roommate invited a number of the girls that lived on our floor freshman year to our room for a "reunion". Little did I know that her sisters were coming over to extend bids to our four friends (myself excluded). I felt a little uncomfortable, even though I love the KD's, but it did help me to decide to go through formal recruitment that spring.
When recruitment came along, I was gung-ho about going KD (I really knew nothing about going through recruitment and about the other sororities). I was going through the rounds, going back to the chapters that invited me back (I never had to make the grueling decision of cutting a chapter), until Theme Night. I had an exam for getting into the education program at our university, and when I registered, I didn't know it was being held at our university (the booklet said that it wasn't on that date), so I signed up to take the exam at a university that was a three hour drive away (and in a different time zone). I wrote a note to the chapters explaining why I wasn't going to be there for that night, and drove off to go to my exam (I was staying the night with my aunt and uncle who lived 5 minutes from the campus).
When I arrived back at my university the next day, I found out that KD had cut me from preference night and I was left with only two choices for preference night. I was stunned and upset, but I composed myself and went to the preference parties anyways. I found my "home" that night in ADPi, and I've never regretted it since!
At our university, the KD's and ADPi's shared a floor in the sorority dorm, so the two chapters got along really well! And also, throughout the other years I was there, I became friends with women in each of the chapters we had (we had a total of 7 chapters on campus), and my friendships with them have allowed the greatest of respect for their organizations to grow within me. I'm so glad that I do have friends in other GLO's....you learn so much more about Greek Life in general!
