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[dreamingbeauty]

what should you avoid doing when pledging?

[Tom Earp]

WOW, to an open question!

First if you do not like them and just because they may have a big name, or are big on campus, don't.

If you find a fit, then join! Life will be better!

College is such a short term compared to life after college.

The very best of luck in your Greek Quest!

[adpiucf]

I take it you're a collegiate woman from your screen name. Are you considering joining an NPC or NPHC organization? There may be differing advice, depending on this.

[tld221]

OMGZ TEH UPCOMING AWESOMENESS ON THIS THREAD...

(unless some mod comes and busts the party)

[Dionysus]

Originally Posted by adpiucf

I take it you're a collegiate woman from your screen name. Are you considering joining an NPC or NPHC organization? There may be differing advice, depending on this.

I take it from her screen name she's also black, has shoulder length hair, 5'5'', age 19, and wears a c-cup.

[tld221]

Originally Posted by Dionysus

I take it from her screen name she's also black, has shoulder length hair, 5'5'', age 19, and wears a c-cup.

: sound of joke flying over tld221's head :

[preciousjeni]

Ok, so first, be sure you ALWAYS wear pink panties because they DO check. If you're not wearing them, you won't be allowed to wear ANY undergarments for the rest of pledging. Also, DO NOT under any circumstances let the goat die. They'll give you one to take care of until initiation. Also, you should try to keep it as healthy as possible because you're going to have to drink its blood.

[Axid angel]

do not ignore your good common sense! don't talk smack about anybody behind their backs no matter how much you dislike them. i promise i always comes back to bite you in the behind. most importantly if you are completely miserable dont go through with initiation or your college experience will be that much worse.

[dreamingbeauty]

Originally Posted by preciousjeni

Ok, so first, be sure you ALWAYS wear pink panties because they DO check. If you're not wearing them, you won't be allowed to wear ANY undergarments for the rest of pledging. Also, DO NOT under any circumstances let the goat die. They'll give you one to take care of until initiation. Also, you should try to keep it as healthy as possible because you're going to have to drink its blood.

You thought a lil hard on your joke...it was almost funny but i couldn't seem to laugh.

[ladygreek]

Originally Posted by tld221

: sound of joke flying over tld221's head :

I think she was referring to how did the screen name imply a college student?

[SWTXBelle]

Yoda, is that you?

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by dreamingbeauty

what should you avoid doing when pledging?

....I would definitely avoid urinating in your house entryway, going to pledge meetings on pcp, slapping your housemom, stealing your president's car and running it off a bridge, running a coke ring out of your room.....

you know..........things like that.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by macallan25

....I would definitely avoid urinating in your house entryway, going to pledge meetings on pcp, slapping your housemom, stealing your president's car and running it off a bridge, running a coke ring out of your room.....

you know..........things like that.

Macallan25, I hope you didn't have to learn these things through personal experience.

[AKA_Monet]

Dreamingbeauty,

There are several women's Sorority umbrella organizations. The 2 largest ones are National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) and the National PanHellenic Council (NPHC)--that also collaborates with all the historically Black greek lettered fraternities.

I am telling you this because, as you stated, you would like to join a NPHC affiliate. 12dst gave you some very good insight, please examine them. However, your PRIMARY ISSUE is to finish high school, get accepted into college and GO TO COLLEGE because that is extremely important for all NPHC affiliates.

The second issue is NPC has membership recruitment that is a bidding process. They generally accept quite a few freshmen, whereas, NPHC has a historically collegiate merit-based membership that generally accepts sophomores and is lifelong after graduation. There is an area for membership recruitment on the board. You are free to peruse the topics.

Who do you know in your friend, family, church, etc. that influenced you to want to do this? How can searching this site help you? What do you actually know about college and greek life? Just asking.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

NPHC has a historically collegiate merit-based membership that generally accepts sophomores and is lifelong after graduation.

Just wanted to point out that NPC SHOULD be lifelong as well.