You Knew You Were Meant To Be an ADPi When....

[adpiucf]

Ok, the forum is a little slow, so I wanted to start a new topic!

At what point did you feel you were meant to be an ADPi?

Was it the moment you first walked through the doors of the ADPi house during formal recruitment...

Was it when you finally learned the words to "I Love the Pin"

Perhaps it was when you received your first violet, when you went through your first spirit week, or the moment you realized you had found the best friends of your life?

Inquiring minds want to know! Share your stories

[SLUadpi]

Anybody that knows me, will tell you that I am not a big cryer. I don't get too emotional over many things. But for some reason on pref. night in the ADPi room, I broke down and bawled my eyes out. I think every girl that was there was crying at some point. They had the most special pref. night planned for us, starting with a slide show, and then the girls singing, then telling us touching stories (i really don't remember about what!),....but then, each of the girls read a letter that they had written to the girl that they were preffing, and that's when I really lost it. It really made me feel like I was their sister already, and what made it worse was that the girl prefing me was crying too! That's when I knew how genuine and wonderful these girls really were. It's funny, because she told me in the letter that she already knew that I was going to pick ADPi, she could tell the first time that she met me; and she was right. That was also the first night that I met my best friend, and she ending up joining ADPi as well... it was fate

~kelly

[ADPi-Jen]

Kelly- What a beautiful story, and a great thread to get started, AdpiUCf. I can't wait to read all of the beautiful stories that will be posted.

I didn't join through formal recruitment. I joined through COR during my Junior year (I was a transfer). I knew that ADPi was for me when I found a caring, fun, enjoyable group of sisters who didn't appear to come from the same cookie cutter mold that I saw in other chapters on my campus.

As a PNM, and an Alpha I was made to feel very welcome and treated as an equal to the Delta members. My Diamond Sis was amazing, answering all of my questions, and hanging out with me. It was such a privilage to wear her badge after initation!

I have often wondered if I would have went ADPi at another school or through formal recruitment. But after meeting other Adpi's at Districts and now GC adpi's, there is NO doubt that ADPi was/is the place for me!

L&L,
Jen

[nauadpi]

For me it was always interesting...I started out college thinking I would not join a sorority for the life of me...I was even quoted to say when I heard my roomie was going through formal recruitment "oh no I am going to be living with a sorority chick." Anyways...after seeing how much fun she was having with her sisters I decided to atleast consider it...well then I noticed a whole bunch of signs around campus for an event that adpi was putting on...Well it was a friday night and I was bored so I decided to go...As soon as I saw everyone in the chapter I felt at ease...I also didnt feel like a giant in the room...me being 6 ft tall and what not...So I was pretty comfortable at this point...then they started kareoke...as soon as I saw them will to make complete fools of themselve I was sure this place was for me...Anyways...I should just continue my story cause well I feel like writing it...Anyways...that night I went home and researched everything I could on adpi (cause I am just a computer dork like that)...so then on saturday I interviewed with IO's...it was a very interesting...but I could see how much they really loved the sorority and that got my attention even more...to see how much it had stayed with their lives (my mom and sister were actually in sororities...but after college they didnt really stay involved)...anyways...So then they took me on a tour of Mt View hall (all greek hall at NAU)...and then i headed home...Ok...so then sunday came around...I was sitting at home in the morning and I got a phone call..."Where is your room?" So I rushed to atleast make it look slightly presentable (ok if I hadnt a huge bag of trash would have been sitting by the door)...So two sisters showed up and presented me the a bid...I was so excited and i signed it right away...So I then called up my parents and told them...they were in shock...especially since i am nothing like my mom or my sister so me joining a sorority was out of the question (well they later met the sisters and saw why it was perfect for me)...

Anyways that night I went through alpha and I have been an adpi ever since...

Sorry for going on so long...I do start to blather when people let me...

[adpiucf]

As a freshman, I didn't go through recruitment. I really didn't care for the presentation on Greek Life during my Freshman Orientation. The Head Rho Chi talked to us, and she looked and sounded like a valley girl. It was a big turn off!!!

On the first day of school, which is the day after Bid Day, I went to my first class (8 AM, MWF, Physical Geography-- haha... 8 am course.. would you believe I never missed a class?!). I took a random seat next to a total stranger. Her name was Lisa and when my pen ran out of ink, she lent me hers-- one that had Greek letters on it. We chatted about being freshmen and I asked the obvious question, "Oh are you in a sorority?" As a brand-new alpha, Lisa proudly answered, "Yes, I am an ADPi." Over that class and that year, Lisa became and still is to this day my best friend. Thank goodness for that pen! I met so many ADPi's that year, and I felt completely comfortable with each one. That summer, there was no doubt in my mind that my first impression of the Greek System was wrong. I signed up for Recruitment and made some great friends during that week-- "rushees" who ended up becoming members of my alpha class!

I made sure to go into recruitment with an open mind, and I gave every house my undivided attention and interest. But in my heart, it was ADPi all the way and now as an involved alumna, and after all that ADPi has helped me to acheive, I couldn't imagine my life any other way.

[ASUADPi]

I too joined as a freshman when I was attending University of Arizona. I always knew I wanted to rush a sorority when I went to college. Blame it on tv or whatnot, but I knew.

Anyways, U of A had an informal meeting at the MU with all the chapters present who would be participating in spring rush.
I should mention Spring Rush is much more laid back. Which I think it's like that at most schools. You go to the house you want and you can leave when you want.

I should also mention that my friend from high school is a Chi-O, so I actually wanted to rush them because of her. But on the way to the meeting I ran into some girls and sat with them. One them, Michelle I think her name was, went through fall rush but had to drop out because she got sick and she had made it to the third round with ADPi, so I agreed to go to the house with her.
I spent the entire time at the house. I just loved talking to all the girls, I didn't even realize that I had spent 2+ hours with them.

I felt so horrible though the next day because Elise, the president, invited me back. I ran into Michelle the next day and she wasn't invited back. I felt horrible because she really wanted to be an ADPi, at the time, I really didn't care. I just liked them, I liked talking to them.

So that night I recieved my bid. I remember I was talking to like 5 or 6 girls and Elise came over and said that she needed to talk to me and tell me somthing, not even assuming that it could be something bad, I told her she could just tell me in front of the sisters. Looking back, they were all smiling cause they knew what was coming. Elise said okay and told me that the girls wanted to offer me a bid and she told me I could think about it. I replied I don't need to think about it, I want to accept it. Suddenly I was being hugged by her and the entire group of girls I was talking too.

It was really the little things that made me want to be with them. They were a great much of girls. So different then one another, different views, different opinions. What I really loved about them, this is so lame too, I wear contacts and the night I got my bid, they were going dry on me. One of the sisters actually went around the house looking for contact solution for me. It was actually my diamond who did that for me. I know you're probably thinking 'how sweet' and it was and that's what made me want to be there.

I have never regretted joining ADPi, I have made have the best friends. Plus, I love meeting sisters from other schools and other states.

Sorry my post is so long.

Brianna

[polarpi]

I knew that I was meant to be an ADPi when I opened my bid card standing next to a woman I had just met about a half hour before and we both opened our bid cards and found out we had received bids from ADPi. We squealed (okay, I know it's a "girlie" response) and gave each other the hugest hugs. I didn't know anyone who accepted bids with me, but over the course of Alpha education and initiation, I grew close to a lot of them, and count some of my fellow Alphas as my closest friends.

The biggest moment of "I know I'm where I belong" happened when walking into the chapter room after accepting our bids. It was the most successful formal recruitment our chapter had ever had, and to see how excited all the Delta members were when the eight of us walked in (one was COR'ed earlier that afternoon, and three others had been Alphas since before formal recruitment began) made me SO happy to be where I felt at home!

[violets]

The very first moment of the very first ADPi rush party. I know that sounds unrealistic, but it was like I could actually exhale in that room while in the rest I was just nervous and skeptical.
The sisters all asked INTERESTING questions; I was never asked about my major, my dorm or where I was from, so therefore we had Real conversations.
Also, during their slide show they played ABBA's "Dancing Queen," and this was years before ABBA had a resurgence--so it was totally unexpected and so indicative of the way my chapter would do things just a bit differently, with style.

I just adored them.
And I still do.
violets

[honeychile]

That first day of rush, Alpha Delta Pi was the last of the sororities that I was scheduled to see. Whether it was the heat or the exhaustion or what, the moment I stepped inside, I felt at home! All the sisters were mellow at that point, and they made me feel as if I was one of them from that day forward. I told my mama that day that Kappa was nice, but I'd just die if the ADPis didn't express an interest in me! And Bid Day! I was absolutely sick to my stomach (literally!) that I didn't suicide!

Yet, there is something about being an alumna, and realizing the vastness of Alpha Delta Pi:

Having fond memories of making chili for the then Province President who became a Grand President!

Discovering that my pharmacist is an ADPi!

Wearing a recognition pin on my way to a ritzy restaurant and having an unknown sister give me "the sign"!

And now, writing recs for women who you really, really want to be your sister.

It only gets better, ladies!

[adpiucf]

Bump Bump Bump

We Live For Each Other!

[ADPiSAI]

I started university swearing that I would never join a sorority. A few years and some transferring later, I've obviously changed my mind on that!

I knew that I clicked with my sisters at the first recruitment event I went to - a dinner back in November. I had gone mostly because I had nothing better to do that night, and one of my friends from a class had invited me. I really didn't have any plans to join, but I figured I'd check it out. The girls were amazing, and right from the moment I walked in the door, I didn't feel the slightest bit like an outsider.

I realized how much I wanted to be an ADPi during informal recruitment week this spring. You only really "had to" go to 2 or 3 events, but I felt like I had to go to all of them because I couldn't wait to spend more time with this awesome group of girls!

The moment I *really* felt like I was meant to be an ADPi was during my Alpha ceremony. Witnessing all sorts of things that only ADPi's can experience... I was so excited and so proud to be a part of it all. Even though I didn't know the meaning of some things, it immediately held some sort of significance to me.

I'm so glad I let go of my anti-sorority attitude and found such fabulous girls to call sisters!

[texas*princess]

I feel like I've had many moments and continue to have moments where I just *know* I was supposed to be an ADPi

My first one was definately during our COR when I started going to the Recruitment events. There were two or three other chapters on campus who were also recruiting, but I really only wanted to try going to ADPi's because I liked how they were the most down-to-earth group on my campus (Since I couldn't go through rush in Fall, I did a little observing before deciding to try spring rush )

I will openly admit I was EXTREMELY NERVOUS when I first went to the house for their first recruitment event. The first sister I talked to was just so AMAZING! Even though she probably didn't know it, she made me feel completely "at home" and after talking to her I wasn't nervous at all about meeting and talking to the other sisters who were present. I will never forget how she completely erased all my nervousness and made me feel at home, and I'm so glad she's my sister now!!!

I think my ultimate moment of when I knew I was meant to be in Alpha Delta Pi was the week of our Diamond Days. I was a terrible mess because for some reason, everything just seemed to go wrong that week! I bombed a huge test I had studied all night for, I got a flat tire, and my boyfriend broke up with me the night before initation... so needless to say, I was a complete wreck! No matter how bad things had went during the daytime of Diamond Days with my car, or my test, our Diamond Days events were my saving grace because it was a time I could just forget all the bad stuff that happened and have fun & enjoy the company of the ladies I would call sisters! The night my boyfriend broke up with me was TERRIBLE! Unfortunately, it happened after that night's Diamond Days event, so I couldn't just go somewhere to temporarily forget. The rest of the entire night and the following day I was in shambles. My Alpha class and a lot of the sisters helped me through it, and the following evening during initation I was just thinking how AMAZING it is to have such wonderful sisters!!

[ASUADPi]

bumping this thread because it is really sweet and I wanna read more stories from sisters on why they chose ADPi.

[violets1211]

Well, my story is a little different. I knew I wanted to join a sorority when I went to college. I had a friend from high school that was a year older than me and she joined a sorority when she went away to college. She would tell me all about the fun she and her sisters had, and I swear that all of her e-mails to me were about her sisters. Anyway, she was a Kappa Alpha Theta, and wanted me to rush them. My best friend from high school went to a different college and she wanted to rush Delta Delta Delta and wanted me to rush them. So anyway, I figured I'd go through Rush (yes, back then it was still called Rush), and see where I fit in. Ok, so prior to Rush, all the Lambda Chi Alpha's that I met and pretty much everyone else that I met, told me that I would be an ADPi. I said, I had no clue which sorority I wanted to join, if I wanted to join one. On Pref night, I went to 2 (that was the max. # of parties we could go to), I went to Gamma Phi Beta and ADPi. Gamma Phi's was nice. And I ended up in the same dress as one of their sisters, so we laughed. But ADPi's touched my heart. The woman who pref'ed me, became a good friend. She made me cry. After we had left the room, I realized that my contact had fallen out with all the crying. So I told my Rho Chi, and she and I had to go back in to find it. Needless to say that all the sisters were crying as well, and when they were told about my contact they all started to laugh. It eased the mood a little!

Anyway, the moment I really felt that I had made the right decision didn't come for me until I got involved with the Alumnae Association in VA. And it got reiterated to me when I arrived here in CT and became a chapter advisor to the URI chapter. I have met so many wonderful women b/c of ADPi... and I am so happy to call them all sisters! I can't tell you the exact moment that I felt like ADPi really was the best decision of my life, but I can tell you that I don't regret any part of my college experience, but I love my Alumnae experience!

I went through COR with ADPi at Baylor my freshman year. I did not return for formal recruitment in January and my roomate had just pledged Chi Omega. I was miserable because I had wanted to rush (actually, we were supossed to pledge together, you know how those things go, "I'll be in Chi-O, you be in it too!! OK!!" ).
Anyway, I was going through a really horrible time with my boyfriend in the middle of the COR events. He came over to my dorm one night and we talked and broke up. As he was leaving, the TCC who had come to help with recruitment walked in. She was there to hand deliver an invitation to the next night's event. She sat and talked with me for a while and I just cried for a while and she was so sweet. She didn't even know me, yet she recognized me in the lobby, saw I was very upset, and sat there with me and conforted me as an older and wiser woman. I was so thankful for her, the invitation, and my bid just a few short days later.