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My bid day experience was kind of normal, like everyone else's. The girls that did not get bids were called in the morning so that they wouldn't get upset about not having a bid waiting (there are only 3 or 4 each year). The chapters don't know (or aren't supposed to know) which PNMs they get until the revealing. The PNMs were told to meet on campus around noon and were taken into a room a few at a time to sign their bids. The Panhellenic officer, Jen, that gave me my bid had been so sweet to me the entire time- I had been upset on pref night, the night before, because I couldn't decide which chapter I wanted to put first on my pref card, and she talked me through it. Jen handed me a pink envelope and I opened it, started to read it, and kind of had my heart skip a beat because my eyes went straight to the chapter name and I misread it at first as "Delta Gamma," who I hadn't even preffed. I calmed myself and kept reading, then realized what I had read was the "Delta Lambda" chapter of Gamma Phi Beta... my first choice! I was stoked, signed my card, Jen hugged me and I was hoping she was a Gamma Phi because I loved her!
My school does the whole running down the hill to your new chapter thing. Each of the 6 PX groups comes up one at a time and runs to where her new chapter is placed on our campus' lawn. I was the only girl in my group (the last of the 6) to get a bid from Gamma Phi, and it was awkward for me because Gamma Phi and AXO (the other chapter I preffed) were right next to each other and I could see people I knew from both watching me... They told us to run, I went for it, and got ambushed by Gamma Phis... all the while noticing the AXOs I had met running at me and stopping. It was kind of sad, but I was with my girls! FYI, when the PXs and officers revealed their chapters, I was so excited that Jen was a Gamma Phi! She was one of my role models in the chapter and I still look up to her!
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