Texas Daughter's Recruitment Thread!

[texasmom]

It's time to let the cat out of the bag...although many of you guessed the school, TexasDaughter gave me permission to confirm tonight...she will be going through Recruitment at the awesome Texas A&M University

Yes, this weekend was the time to take our baby to college. What an experience. When it's the last little chickie leaving the nest, my husband and I felt we had to go along for the big sendoff. We live only an hour and a half away, so that made the parting somewhat easier, but TexasMom confesses she did shed a few tears.

Incidentally, like most of the readers of this forum, I have been absolutely enthralled by both BamaDad and Southernyankee's eloquent posts. It's a bit intimidating to have to follow such popular threads. I hope TexasDaughter handles herself as well during this entire process as both of the young ladies described in their parents' threads. To me, that is part of what this entire experience should be - it teaches our daughters so much - how to handle happiness, sadness, joy, hope and yes, even disappointment -- all within the space of a few days. (Of course, that's me speaking on the eve of the first day of Recruitment -- we'll see how I handle things later this week!)

TexasDaughter is to attend a convocation event tonight where she will meet her Recruitment Counselor and her group. All the PNMs will be given white tee-shirts to wear tomorrow for the first round of parties. They are to attend six parties tomorrow morning, then break for several hours, and attend the final six tomorrow night.

Oh, my, I can't believe it's almost here -- I think I need to go hit the Pepto-Bismol. I'm signing off now..

[dvs-dz]

Best of luck to your daughter, Texasmom! I wrote many, many recommendations for girls at A&M this year so I am quite interested to hear of your daughter's experiences.

[southernyankee]

I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers.

Along with the Pepto...a big fat ambien always helps for those worry filled nights!

[pinkyphimu]

good luck to your daughter and to you too!!

[LouisaMay]

I'm excited for you!!!!! Here we go..................................

[BetteDavisEyes]

Good-luck!

[texasmom]

I spoke to TexasDaughter very briefly just after she completed touring the first six houses early this afternoon. She sounded really happy and was excited about all the groups. I'll wait to give you a synposis of all 12 after she visits the remaining houses this evening and calls me with her impressions. She said all the sisters have been very easy to talk to. I asked her if she had any favorites at this point, and she said at this point she couldn't rule any of them out.

The PNMs are split into 24 groups of 30-31 with two Rho Gammas per group. Two groups of PNMs visit each house at once, so in some houses there are two PNMs for each sister. TexasDaughter has been impressed with how she's met several sisters in each chapter. Everyone is answering her questions and making her feel welcome. The only negative is the temperature. It was over 100 today. She says she can literally feel her makeup melting away whenever they are outside.

One thing surprised me -- TexasDaughter said their Rho Gammas told them they won't get their invitations to the next round until tomorrow morning, right before they visit the houses. Is this standard, or does each school do this differently?

Thanks!