Eirbear's Retro Recruitment Thread

[Faith4Keep]

I can't wait for the next update!

[Leslie Anne]

Great update! Can't wait to hear more.

[Eirbear]

A couple days after the first weekend of Recruitment, our floor had our last meeting with Janet and Jessica. To celebrate the final meeting, Janet and Jessica brought stuff for root beer floats. After having some girl talk time, we went over what we were all wearing for the last two rounds this weekend. Janet and Jessica also let us know what to expect on Bid Day on Sunday. They told us that we had to be in our rooms, with our doors shut, at 1:00pm on Sunday afternoon. They said if we got a bid, we would go to the field house at about 3:00pm and we should wear layers, since we'd get tshirts when we got there. Then we finalized times for cuts, times for the rounds on the weekend, and Janet and Jessica gave us a chance to guess what chapters they were in. The group decided Janet was a Theta almost immediately. We couldn't quite decide what Jessica was.

The next day marked cuts. I sat in my room, with the door closed, for a while before I heard Janet and Jessica's knock. I opened the door and they both stood there with a card, grinning. They told me I had to cut one chapter and that I just had to cross off the one I didn't want to return to. I was excited to find out I had been invited to all four parties for Sisterhood on Friday night. After thinking for a moment, I crossed off the chapter I chose to cut--Fiyero.

I closed the door again, feeling good about the coming weekend.

[khlkcca]

I know you just did, but update again soon

[Leslie Anne]

Congratulations on being asked back to all four! It's so nice when the ball is in your court.

[Eirbear]

I'm glad you guys are enjoying reading this!

Friday night finally arrived. Fortunately, Sisterhood round was scheduled to start a couple hours later than Open House had a week before, so band didn't conflict this time and I had plenty of time to get back to my room and get ready for the round. I got dressed in the outfit I had picked out--a black skirt, nice button-up blouse, and some nice black shoes--and did my hair up as best I could (I'm rather challenged in the hair-styling department) and put on some make-up. It came time for our floor to leave for the student union again with Janet and Jessica. All the PNMs and Rho Chi's looked great, and while we were waiting for our assignments in the student union, there were a bunch of people who walked by and stared. We all got quite a bit of amusement out of it. We finally left for the rounds. These rounds are the ones I don't remember quite so much about, and I don't know why. I remember snippets, and the more "unique" stuff that was done, but the specifics are kind of missing.

Galinda--My first party of the night. This one was in the Pharmacy building. The theme was a movie theme. We had popcorn and after settling down a bit (after looking at pictures hanging on the walls), we all sat down to watch a movie slideshow of their chapter. I enjoyed seeing it and noticed that I was even more excited for Bid Day and getting the chance to become a member of one of these chapters. Again, I was paired with a sister I felt I reallly connected with.

Elphaba--The second party of the night at the Business building. I was paired with a sister I liked and we had a good conversation. Like the Galindas' party, we saw pictures decorating the walls and we also watched a movie slideshow of the chapter's times together. Overall, I had a good time.

Nessarose--The final party of the night. I don't know why I always ended up as Nessarose for the last party each night, but I guess it was just one of those great ironies of Recruitment. This one was also in the Business building and had a Wizard of Oz theme (one half of the room had old black and white pictures, the other half had current pictures in color, and there was a cardboard rainbow joining the two together). I was paired again with the sister from my section in marching band. We had a good time talking, and we ended up in a group of sisters. Then we saw another movie slideshow, the sisters sang a song, we (the PNMs) all wrote down a wish on a piece of paper. We tied the papers to balloons, walked outside, and set them loose.

At the end of the night, I was a little stressed. I didn't know what chapter I'd cut the next day before Preference. I liked all three of them, but I could only go to two Preference parties at most. But, I was really looking forward to the next night's round, so I tried not to dwell on it too much.

[Leslie Anne]

Hmm, sounds like Elphaba made the least good impression. I'm sure it will work out in the end.