IrishPipes' Retro Recruitment Story

[FSUZeta]

reading about your pref. experiences and your feelings made me feel very anxious, as in anxiety!!

[violetpretty]

I'm going to bank on no plot twists. I had a feeling that Kilkenny was AOPi since she talked about clicking with her random roommate while shopping for their room. Yay!

[irishpipes]

Back at the dorm, Erin has dropped out. She is less than pleasant to me, as if it is my fault. Jenn preffed her 3 favorites and had a hard time choosing. She talked to her Rho Chi for a long time and the Rho Chi gave her opinion as to which might be the best fit for her. This shocked me. I didn’t realize how helpful the Rho Chis could be. I had misunderstood their role completely. Shar has also preffed her favorites and is positive that she wants Kerry.

I told Shar and Jenn that I suicided Kilkenny and they are surprised but actually really supportive. Jenn had also picked Kilkenny as her top choice so she could understand the connection I felt there. Shar was surprisingly nice about it. Not that Shar wasn’t usually nice, but she was more superficial, I guess you could say. I remember her hugging me and telling me I would make a great Kilkenny, but she really thought I would choose Limerick.

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Next day, sure enough, the phone rings. It is my Rho Chi and I don’t need to go to the Union because I have not matched. The Rho Chi asks if I want to talk and I just say “no thanks” and act like it is no big deal. She presses, but I can tell that she is very uncomfortable and I actually feel bad for her having to make the call! After I hang up, I wonder how it is possible that there is so much wrong with me that not one of the 22 chapters available wanted me. What a total loser. (At that point I wasn’t thinking of all the chapters that I had voluntarily cut or that I had suicided.) I wondered what I did wrong and how I would deal with the humiliation.

Later that afternoon, our dorm floor was full of screaming sorority members who arrived to put door decs on the new pledges’ doors and pick them up for bid day. Both girls across the hall, Laura and Anne, pledged Cork. I wondered if legacy girl from my group would be their pledge sister? Later that day I wandered down the stairs to take a peek at Jenn’s door. I didn’t want to talk to her and admit my failure, I just wanted to see her door to see if she got a bid. I peeked over and there was a door dec for Kilkenny. I was speechless. It was hard to see someone get a bid to the chapter I wanted so much. I wondered what she was doing with her new sisters right now.

I went back to my room and hung out. Erin came by and I could tell she was secretly thrilled at my situation. While we were talking, the phone rang again and it was someone from Wexford wanting to know if I wanted to join their pledge class. I didn’t even give it the consideration that I should have. I just said “no thanks” and hung up.

The only good news was that Martha would be moving in that evening. I was so worried that she would feel awkward since she is in the very sorority that just rejected me. I decided to be as uplifting and cheerful as possible so she wouldn’t feel bad. It just went unspoken for a few days.

[violetpretty]

Spoke too soon. Hmmmmm.

[amycat412]

oh no! please go on, what happened next?

[CZAXOTerp]

Originally Posted by irishpipes

The only good news was that Martha would be moving in that evening. I was so worried that she would feel awkward since she is in the very sorority that just rejected me. I decided to be as uplifting and cheerful as possible so she wouldn’t feel bad. It just went unspoken for a few days.

please dear God let there be a plot twist!!!

[AOE2AlphaPhi]

OH NO!!!!!!!! Don't leave us hanging!

[AnatraAmore]

More, more, more!!! (Please? )

[irishpipes]

I tried to cope by meeting people in the dorms. Classes were starting and that was a welcome distraction. It seemed that every time I went out, I would get the same message from Martha – that a girl kept calling but insisted she could not leave a message. I couldn’t imagine who it was and didn’t think much about it. Then, the phone rang while I was there and Martha answered it. She whispered that it was for me and it was the same girl who had been calling for days. I picked up and it was Cherie, the pledge trainer at Kilkenny wanting to know if I would like to join their pledge class. After my initial shock wore off, I asked her how this could happen, and she said that I would need to talk to the campus Greek Advisor – that she couldn’t really talk about it. If I wanted to accept, I needed to meet at the Kilkenny house right away. Martha was overhearing this and figured it out and started screaming and laughing. The she got on the phone with Cherie and they laughed – Cherie had no idea it was another Kilkenny answering the phone all those times!

Martha went with me to the Greek Life office. I was told by the Greek advisor that it was a “computer error” and was never told anything more. I wanted to know if I was an afterthought – as much as I wanted to be a Kilkenny, I did not want to be there if they didn’t really want me. The Greek advisor wasn’t very informative, but she told me that the error was not on the part of Kilkenny, and that Panhel was doing everything they could to help correct the problems from rush.

So, Martha and I headed over to the Kilkenny house, which was, of course,








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