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Just to throw in a thought... My roommate and I went through recruitment freshmen year, knowing that our RA was in a specific sorority. She participated in recruitment as an active member (the school I was at didn't have rules again it). Recruitment was going well for both my roommate and I and we both hoped to Pref our RA's sorority, XYZ. She was invited to Pref and I wasn't at sorority XYZ and ABC and I was only invited to ABC. The night of Pref, I got "the phone call." My roommate received a bid to our RA's sorority. My RA and her sisters decorated our door and left baskets of goodies for bid day and then they went out for the night.
While she was at Bid Day festivities, I was in the room alone (not the best place to be when your 800 miles from home and upset) and had a major bout of homesickness... maybe it was the rejection of not getting a bid, maybe it was being lonely since my roommate and I had been inseperarable since we moved in. But either way, it was rough... we had only one RA on our floor and the next closest RA was the boys' RA on the next floor (who I couldn't see crying about being homesick to...) and it put me in a bad spot. Later on, things were still awkward between me and my RA (although she later figured out how awkward it was and did her best to make it go away - especially through Big/Lil Week when my roomie got presents everyday and my RA turned out to be her big sister...)
Long story short - it can be really hard on the PNM, especially if she's having a rough time with recruitment and so other things (homesickness or roommate conflicts) tend to be magnified...
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