Maryland Recruitment as a Rho Gam

[UMDRhoGam07]

I get to meet my PNMs today!

[FSUZeta]

have fun and be informative!!

[UMDRhoGam07]

Today was kickoff and I met my group today! I have 13 women in my group! They all seem so sweet. I have a pair of twins (who live together) in my group and another pair of roommates. We did an icebreaker, went over what to expect during recruitment, did a philanthropy project (Panhellenic-wide) to support the victims of genocide in Darfur, and got to know everyone. I might have scared them with so much info all at once, but they laughed at all my jokes and asked questions, so maybe they weren't scared. I will make sure they are all on the ball each step of the way. I am still high on adrenaline!

[FSUZeta]

you go girl!!

[UMDRhoGam07]

My group is down from 13 to 10. One girl transferred to another group to accomodate her for tours, and two haven't shown up to anything. Today was the first day of tours in the union. We visited in no particular order:

Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Epsilon Phi
Alpha Phi
Delta Delta Delta
Phi Sigma Sigma
Sigma Kappa
Zeta Tau Alpha

My girls were a little overwhelmed since we saw 7 chapters today (and will see 7 tomorrow) but I keep reminding them that this is the most tedious part. I think most of my girls are pretty enthusiastic about joining a chapter. They seemed to have fun today even though the round was tiring. I also reminded them to be polite at each chapter even if you think you are not interested because a) you might change your mind and b) you wouldn't want PNMs to do that to you. More to come. Tomorrow they rank after seeing the rest.

[FSUZeta]

good advice!! good luck to your girls.

[UMDRhoGam07]

Yesterday, my PNMs visited:
Alpha Chi Omega
Alpha Omicron Pi
Delta Gamma
Delta Phi Epsilon
Kappa Alpha Theta
Kappa Delta
Sigma Delta Tau

So far, my PNMs are being really good. I haven't heard any negative comments come out out of their mouths. I was really impressed with them yesterday when they were ranking---they were completely silent and trying to cover up their choices when they were making their picks so they wouldn't influence each other! The next round, which starts tomorrow, PNMs can visit up to 10 chapters, 5 each night.