Sam's Candy Recruitment

[samaroni]

I have been creeping on Greek Chat for about a month now and have been obsessed with reading the recruitment stories. I just started going through recruitment this week so I decided to write my own story. I will be using the names of my favorite candies to represent the sororities in this story. This is going to be a live story, obviously so it will be probably updated every day this weekend.

First off, I go to a small private university in the north and we only have 5 sororities so it isn’t super competitive like at southern schools. We have like 70 people going through, which from what I’ve read is like the size of some pledge classes at other schools. Even though it is small at my school Greek life is a really big deal. So obviously I’m freaking out a little (or a lot) about getting a bid.

The Sororities will be known as
Swedish Fish
Snickers
Sour Patch Kids
Three Musketeers
Starbursts

Recruitment started on Wednesday and we had about a half hour long meeting about the rules and procedures and such. Then on Thursday we had a meet and greet with all the sororities and it was an hour long. We spent 10 minutes with each sorority and here was what I thought of them after it.

Swedish Fish- I loved them. I already knew like 6 of these girls through cheerleading and they are some of my best friends but I got to meet a few more of them and I had great conversations with them all.

Snickers- I love these girls as well, I knew a few of them already and we talked about where we were living next year and their conventions and retreats. They really seemed passionate about their sisterhood.

Sour Patch Kids- I was really surprised by these girls. I didn’t know that many of them and had heard some stories about them on campus. Although I tried to not listen to the stories sometimes it is hard not to but when I met them they were all so sweet and they really seemed to love each other. And I had a conversation about hockey with one of the girls which definitely impressed me.

Three Musketeers- I knew none of these girls before going so they automatically had to really impress me, as bad as that sounds. I knew girls from all of the other sororities before recruitment started even if it was only a few, but I knew none of these girls so I already figured I would not like them because if I didn’t know any of them then obviously we weren’t into the same things. I did try to give them a chance and keep an open mind though. However when I went to meet them I didn’t like them very much at all. Granted the girls all seemed very nice and they all seemed to love each other but I instantly knew I didn’t fit in with them.

Starbursts- I knew a couple girls from this one already and they always seemed so passionate about it so I was very excited to learn more about them. I was intimidated by them though because they all seemed so perfect and put together.

After this night I was stressed and it was only an hour long, so I was freaking out because I had five hours the next night and didn’t know how I was going to be able to handle it.

So today was the five hour night and we spent 40 minutes with each chapter. This is what I thought of them tonight.

Swedish Fish- I LOVED these girls. Every one of them was so welcoming and energetic. I had great conversations with them about everything from cheerleading to photography to food. Their ice breaker was a lot of fun and they made me laugh so hard that I almost peed my pants. They were honestly so nice and I definitely want to be invited back tomorrow.

Snickers- I was slightly disappointed with these girls. I loved them last night and at recruitment events before formal recruitment started, and I always loved talking to them on campus. Tonight they didn’t impress me though. They didn’t talk much at all which disappointed me but I think it was because they had so many games and stations for us, it didn’t really leave much time for talking. However I still really like them and would love to be invited back I just hope they talk more with us tomorrow.

Sour Patch Kids- I still liked this group a lot. They were a lot of fun. I didn’t have as great of conversations with them tonight as I did last night but I definitely had fun with them and would like to get to know them better. And they served great punch!

Three Musketeers- Again this group was disappointing. The conversations were ok, and I liked a few of them but I just never clicked with them.

Starbursts- I had fun with these girls but was also slightly disappointed with them. I still like them but I talked mostly to the ones I already knew because they kind of took me under their wing. They introduced me to some other people but no one in my group really got to talk to a lot of them because all of the sisters seemed more interested in talking to the other sisters rather than us. I am hoping that if I get invited back that I get to know more of the girls and that they become more interested in us and not just their sisters.

So at the end of tonight I picked my top 4, they were:
Swedish Fish
Snickers
Sour Patch Kids
Starbursts
I’m very excited for tomorrow. It will be a very long day but I can’t wait to see which houses I’m invited back to and to meet more of the girls.