A Delicious Recruitment

[sophia27]

A good friend of mine who posts regularly on here asked me to post my trip through formal recruitment. All I will say is that this occurred sometime within the last 10 years. Below is some background about recruitment at my school as well as myself.


At Dessert University we had 11 chapters that participated in recruitment. It was a larger school with a non-competitive Greek Life.

1. Tiramisu
2. Cheesecake
3. Sundae
4. Tapioca
5. Custard
6. Water Ice
7. Pudding
8. Brownie
9. Cookie
10. Popsicle
11. Rhubarb Pie

My Alpha Omegas (My University doesn’t call them rho chis or pi chis) will be referred to as twix and twizzler.

Rounds
Philanthropy – 11 Sororities
Sisterhood – 7 Sororities
Skit – 5 Sororities
Preference – 3 Sororities

The first round was held in the student union. The rest of the rounds were held in the sorority suites, which were in the basement of one of the campus dormitories. Recruitment didn’t start until 3 weeks into the fall semester, which was long enough for most girls to develop opinions on the sororities and overhear gossip.

While I didn’t want to prejudge any sororities I couldn’t help but notice and overhear a few things before recruitment actually began.

Water Ice, Pudding, & Custard had sisters that were all very tan. They were considered the top 3 sororities on campus from what I had heard. One of the Puddings I had played a sport with for 6 years growing up I didn’t know she was a Pudding till I saw her in Letters on campus (She was a year ahead of me in school).

Popsicle & Cookie were the two bottom sororities that were considered rejects and fraternities on our campus had some cruel nicknames for them. I would later learn when you hang out with the fraternities enough you’ll learn everyone’s nicknames.

I signed up for recruitment for a few reasons.
1. I wanted to meet girls with similar interests as me, while I got along with all the girls on my floor they weren’t people that I would bother staying in touch with over vacation much less after I graduated.
2. I was bored and desperately wanted to become involved on campus, so when someone asked me to sign up I thought it was a great way to be more active on campus, although I wasn’t sure I would end up in a sorority (They had promised me that just because I signed up didn’t mean I was obligated to join a sorority).

I lived in a non-freshman dorm in what was essentially a lounge converted to a dorm room for overflow freshmen housing with 4 other girls. We all had very different personalities but managed to get along. I was the only one of the 4 of us who would go through rush freshmen year although my one roommate had thought about rushing an NPHC sorority (I don’t know if she ever did or not none of us kept in touch after we moved into permanent housing spring semester). On our floor we had two brothers of snicker fraternity and they would get us into parties at snicker and milky way fraternity before I joined a sorority.

I had not been popular in middle school or high school after moving to a new town it had been very hard for me to adjust and make new friends as many girls had already developed their own clique of friends. I was glad to go off to college where it would be an equal playing field again and I would not be the only person looking to make new friends.