My recruitment story...maybe?

[kayrs24]

Ok, so let's start with last summer... I took classes at my school and was loving it. I knew I was going to go greek...I went to a few info sessions over the summer, and one at the beginning of fall semester. The deadline for recruitment registration was looming ahead though, and I began to get worried that I would not be able to handle pledging, let alone the recruitment process at my school which is about 2 weeks long. I also began to worry that I would not be able to balance working, classes, and a long-distance relationship all as a freshman...
and unfortunately, I chickened out and did not register for fall recruitment.

I saw a lot of my classmates going through recruitment and how excited they all were, but I also saw them climbing the giant hill between the residence halls the sororities are housed in in heels and dresses and the wind whipping their hair...and I was torn. Half glad I didn't put myself through the extra stress, half upset that they were having fun without me and I missed out on an opportunity I had wanted for a very long time.

I ended up remembering hearing about a sorority that did not require you live in residence halls, and I remembered meeting them at the involvement fair. They were great girls, but I couldnt remember anything but the first letter of their org. and their colors. My roommate and I flipped through the "Go GreeK' booklet we had received over and over and over but we couldn't find this organization.

Then one night, by chance, my roommate came home from a club meeting saying she met a girl in the sorority I was looking for and there was a rush/info event in 5 minutes...I sprinted in a sweats and a tshirt just because I was afraid I wouldnt make it if I took time to change. When I got there, there were two sororities having events! I feel like I made a blank choice at which one to go into, considering nothing at all.

The girls I met at the sorority I choose were great and I felt like I really hit it off enough to go to their other rush events. I learned that they are a service sorority, not required to live on campus at all, and were very involved in the community. They were really great girls.

To make a long story short, I ended up pledging this sorority because I wanted very badly to be in a sorority without knowing much about it. I went to the meetings, met the girls, and did some 'pledge' (though they don't call them that but I'm trying not to give them away)

All the time I was having an okay time but I really felt like I was going through the motions. I never really bonded with my pledge class, maybe a few people here or there but my pledge class was huge (47 girls I think by the end) and I wasn't finding my fit.

Big-Little Week came around and OF course I was so excited, who isn't? And it turns out that I LOVE my big. She is fantastic, and was my 'buddy' at my introduction to pledging ceremony. It was a good day when I found out who she was and I thought things were finally falling into place.

I ended up realizing over the next semester though that even though I liked the girls, I felt like this was more of a club for me and I wasn't feeling the sisterhood that I had hoped to gain. And I was still wishing I had gone through panhellenic recruitment.

So here we are, and I am still wishing that I had done panhellenic recruitment last year, but at the same time glad I didn't. I am torn between the two, but I don't want to give up my service sorority, let's call them Daisies, for a social sorority.
So, I have made the decision that I will be doing recruitment with the intent of keeping my social sorority as well. Since we are not panhel. affiliated, the only problem I'm worried about is balancing them.
This so this is where my story starts, and my "maybe" in the thread title comes in. I still have not fully decided to register. I will let you know. But I am leaning towards trying to do both (with some encouragement maybe ;-) from some of you who think I can do it)

Thannnkkkksss!
I'll let you know as soon as I register and as soon as my recruitment itself begins at the beginning of Sept. I just wanted to get my background story out there