MaggieXi's Retro Elon Recruitment Story

[blackngoldengrl]

Seriously, who plans bid day for Valentine's day? That's just asking for disgruntled significant others. I know it's not a major holiday, but come on! My boyfriend would probably have been annoyed too, and he was in a fraternity!

Glad to see you got invited back to the houses you liked!

[MaggieXi]

I don't think it was planned for V-day, it just happened on to fall on that day. The following year, Elon would go through a dramatic change in all the office of greek life for the better!

[susan314]

Originally Posted by blackngoldengrl

Seriously, who plans bid day for Valentine's day? That's just asking for disgruntled significant others. I know it's not a major holiday, but come on! My boyfriend would probably have been annoyed too, and he was in a fraternity!

That's funny - most of my guy friends dislike Valentine's Day and would have welcomed a good excuse not to have to plan anything for it. lol (My husband is somewhere in the middle - we exchange cards, but that's about it. Neither of us cares too much about it.)

But...imagine some of the girls who do really make a big deal about Valentine's Day - some people get pretty depressed if they don't have a significant other around that time...imagine if a girl was already feeling glum about V-Day and got disastrous news on Bid Day. Would probably break the poor thing's heart.

[MaggieXi]

I vaguley recall the whole v-day on bid day being a hassle for some girls, but my feeling was that I thought the Jon was trying to come more as a control thing rather than to spend it with me. Needless to say, Jon and I broke up about two weeks into my new member period. He got to be really mean and snippy towards me after I joined AZD! Like if I didn't answer the phone when he called right then and there or respond to one of his emails that day he freaked out on me. Now looking back on it, the guy had a TON of control issues!

I will now fast forward to Thursday's parties....

Again I had a late class so I had to rush home and get changed. Today I wore a black skirt and a red ribbed turtle neck with black tights and shoes. Sarah did my hair and make up again. Apparently Courtney asked her to help her and Sarah refused. The two of them should have never been put as roomates!

Traci and I's schedule both had Half-Moon first for skit round tonight so we walked over there and checked in with the Rho Chi. As soon as the Rho Chi looked at us she asked us where our name tags were. I could not believe that both of us forgot our name tags!!!! So we both ran back to the room, in the rain and ran back to Moseley and got there just in time for the doors to open up at Half-Moon!

The girls at Half Moon had created this bridge thing with their arms over our heads and were singing the theme from the Muppets which I thought was really cute. Then we were taken by the girl at the end of the line. A new girl named Heather too took me around and we met up with Jen again who handed me a sprite in an old fashioned soda bottle. I opened it and it exploded all over me and Jen. Heather started apologizing profusely and Jen and I just laughed. They gave me some paper towels to clean up and Heather kept taking me around to meet different sisters. Then the sorority had us sit down in chairs and the sisters did this skit for us on the stage where they did this whole Wizard of Oz, Dorothy in Recruitment Land skit. It was alright. I couldn't hear a lot of it though. Then the president gave us a talk about our financial responsibilities to the sorority if we were to join. It's not as expensive as a lot of girls have made it out to be and seems pretty flexible with payment plans and stuff. All and all I had a really good time at Half Moon -- even though I walked in all wet and walked out with sprite on me! Traci and I met up in the hall at the end of the party. She absolutely loves Half Moon! I still really like Half Moon and could see myself there.

Next I was a one of the lucky ones who got to stay inside Moseley to go see Lotus next. While we were lining up, I ran into Colleen and Torey who were both at my party too! We walked into Lotus and the sisters were dressed in black completely except for their "I Love Lotus" buttons (I think it's an Elon thing, but we all had I love buttons and wore them a lot!) and the room was all dark except for black light and they had created this stage area. The music in the background was this eerie pinkfloyd music that fit the mood. So we all sit down and they do this Lous Through Time musical montage. It was awesome!!! These girls were so talented to pull this whole thing off. The costumes and music were perfect! After the skit was over, the treasurer handed out sheets of paper with the finanial info on it and outlined the financial stuff. For a treasurer, she seemed really laid back! I was then picked up by Hope who I had met during the first round and she introduced me to more people. I noticed a lot of the girls in this sorority are from the north and don't seem like the typical sorority girl. I definetly liked this group a lot by the end of the party and could see myself here as well.

Next I went trekked all the way down to the greek courts in the rain to go see Shanti. By this point it was pouring out!!! So we all lined up outside Shanti and waited in line while we got soaked! Finally Shanti let us in. They were all dressed in their letters and khaki pants and were doing cheers like the day before. They had us all sit down and their skit was the Music Awards. I wasn't that impressed compared to Lotus' skit, but it was still pretty good. Then their president went over their financial stuff. By far, this is one of the most expensive groups so far. Then April came and got me and intoduced me to sooo many people my head was swiming. She kept telling me how happy she was to see me there and stuff like that and other sisters would be like "april has said so much great stuff about you." Which of course made me feel pretty good. By the end of this party, I was happy to be there and could possibly see myself in this group too.

My last visit was to Down Dog . It had stopped raining a little bit and we didn't have to stand outside very long. They let us and in and were all cheering and singing and all the sisters were wearing black pants and letters. They had us sit on the floor, which again was wet from everyone's shoes and they did a Greece skit. It was adorable! Then a girl that I had apparently met during first round came up to take me around. I of course introduced myself and she was like "We met last party" and looked kinda peeved that I didn't remember her. I felt pretty embarassed about that. She then took me around to a few people and they served shirley temple drinks to kinda fit with the whole Greece theme. I didn't feel as comfortable at Down Dog as I had the party before because I just felt like every girl was asking the same questions over and over again. I still really liked everyone I met though and could possibly see myself as a Down Dog.

I met up with Heather my Rho Chi at the end of the parties and she said our invites would be ready for pref at 2 so to meet her there again to get them. Also she said to start thinking about who we really like because we can only go back to 2 pref parties. By the time I got back to my room I had no idea who liked the most and who I liked the least. Plus all the stereo types that Courtney and Traci had been saying started to crawl into my head. I really didn't know where I would fit in!

[AnatraAmore]

Wow! I think it's awesome that you like all four of the groups you saw! Did you think that you would be happy to be invited to any two of the four or did you have some slight favorites?

[MaggieXi]

I think going into 2nd round my top two were really Down Dog and Half Moon, although I liked Lotus a lot and I was indifferent about Shanti. By the end of second round I was really confused about who I "should" like vs. who I "really" liked. I had heard all the rumours and Courtney's stereo-typing so I figured I "should" like Down Dog and Half Moon the most. But Lotus was creeping up to be a favorite and after second round I liked Shanti, but maybe not as much as Lotus.

[MaggieXi]

I'm bored at work, so I'll speed this thread up...

Class took forever again! I just wanted to go get my invites! All the girls in my class were either exhausted from no sleep because they were so anxious or super jumpy. I couldn't concentrate on my lecture at all, partly because I was day dreaming and the other part was because I didn't sleep very well the night before because I was so anxious. I was finished with classes by 1 so I went back to my room and tried to sleep and couldn't, went to Harden to try to eat and all I could choke down was a bagel and some soft-serve. I hate anticipation!!!

Finally, I went to meet with Heather at 2 and again I had to wait for my turn. My group was somewhat smaller and rumor had it that the Rho Chis had called the girls who hadn't received any invites to tell them the bad news. I noticed Kristi from my group wasn't there and I felt really bad for her. And of course then the "What-ifs" entered my brain, like What if Heather forgot to call me and I didn't get any invites back, or what if Heather did call me and Traci didn't give me the message...! Finally Heather came out with another girl from my group who was beaming and called me in. And then she did it, she handed me 2 invites. 2! Out of 4 parties yesterday, I was only invited back to 2! Then I opened them. I had been cordially invited back to both Lotus and Shanti. I sat there in shock for a second and then started to tear up a little bit. Heather asked me if I was ok with my invites and I told her that I wasn't not happy to go back to Lotus and Shanti, but I was just upset that Half Moon and Down Dog didn't invite me back!!!!! Heather calmed me down and told me that these were two really good groups and that they must be excited to have me if they invited me to their preference round. She made me feel better, but I was still bitter that I hadn't been invited back to Half Moon and Down Dog.

After I felt better and left Moseley I went back to my room and napped for an hour or so. Only to wake up to Courtney slamming the bathroom door and Sarah watching TV on my futon. Apparently, Courtney had not gotten the pref invites she was expecting and was absolutely miserable to everyone about it. So Sarah was taking cover in my room. I asked Sarah who Courtney had gotten invited back to but she didn't know because Courtney wasn't telling anyone.

Traci came home during all the commotion and told me that she was prefing both Down Dog and Half Moon. Needless to say, I wanted to go back to sleep. But rather, it was time to get ready for Pref!

[33girl]

ha ha ha Courtney got dissed. Been waiting for that in this story.