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09-07-2007, 07:18 AM
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You started the thread on 9/4/07 at 11:40pm with this post:
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OK, i am extremly fusterated! I was just initiated last april into ABC sorority. Since then I have transfered to a new school that has the same sorority that I am in. I contacted my president at the beginning of the summer to let her know that I wasnt coming back and that I would want to transfer into the chapter of ABC at my new school. She said that I would have to fill out some papers and then those would be sent to HQ and then sent over to my new school's president.
I did all the paper work a month before school I left for school. I simply e-mailed my prez the forms and told her to contact me when she had sent them over to HQ. never heard a response. So then i contacted the prez at my new school telling her that i was a transfering and would want to be part of their chapter. She was like "ok...you will have to go through an "informal" rush to get to know the girls to see if you fit in, etc" but she said that she couldnt do anything and i wouldnt be allowed to meet the girls until she had gotten the papers. I e-mailed HQ and asked if they have recieved my papers. They said "no" and according to them I was not in their system as being a full "ABC sorority member" because none of the paper work or badge forms had been sent in for my pledge class. that made me even more fusterated! the lady said that she would call my prez and let her know that she still needed to send those forms in plus my transfer form. A week later, i heard nothing.
anywho..my mom called HQ complaing that nothing had been done, and she didnt know why my paper work hadnt been sent in. This was about a week ago(I am now at school) So the lady decided that she would fill the paperwork out her self, and send it over to my new school. a couple days ago, my mom called them back and asked if they had sent it, and they said "yes" I then contacted the prez here letting her know that my paperwork should finally be here, and that I didnt know what to do next. Havent heard anything back. I then e-mailed greek life at this new school, and they said that they would contact her. I havent heard ANYTHING. I called the house, no one picked up, I e-mailed the prez again, no answer.
I am now sooo fusterated, and I feel like this isnt fair to me. rush is starting this weekend, and if I am not even in the system for ABC sorority then i see no reasoning but to just go through rush again. I am now just afraid that some of the girls will remember my name, because I had added a few girls on facebook letting them know that i was from ABC and transfering into their chapter. Do you think they have forgotten about me? Do you think if I rushed again they would know who I am? I mean greek life is big at this school, and i doubt they would even know who i am out of all the girls that wanna rush right? i could block them from viewing my facebook... I mean like this is soo ridiculous(sp?) that no one has gotten back to me. Its extremely unfair and so irresponsible on my old chapters part for not even sending in my badge order form that i spent over $100 on.
I just dont know what to do...
any advice...PLEASSEE!!
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On 9/5/07 at 2:36 pm (less than 24 hours later) you said:
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THANKK YOUU!!! someone understandds! according to HQ like a week ago, i was in their database as "on hold" meaning that to them i have not been initiated. i was not an ABC according to HQ. thats what i was saying before, that i was going to cancel all my checks and have my chapter throw away my stuff, because at that point my mom wanted me out of it anyways. but i finally just called HQ fusterated that my prez wasnt doing her job, so they did the paperwork for me, and sent it over to my new campus. it is here now..as of yesterday(and i asked my prez to do this...ohh i dunno...beginning of Julyy)so now i am just waiting for them to e-mail me back inviting me to meet them.
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So this still doesn't make any sense:
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hi alphafrog...well actually i started this thread a day or two before i got the e-mail....
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The paperwork would have been there the day you started the thread. You might not have know at that point that it was there, but you obviously had already contacted your HQ and they had agreed to send over the paperwork, because that stuff doesn't happen overnight. Again, since your HQ had already agreed to send the transfer paperwork WHY START THIS THREAD? Yes, it may take time for everything to get sorted out, and yes, the chapter at your new school is more worried about attending to rushing a bunch of girls than one transfer student, AS THEY SHOULD BE. If you don't like it, quit. Throw away a lifetime of sisterhood because you missed a few weeks at the begining of the semester. Good idea.
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09-07-2007, 09:41 AM
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C'mon now, AF. You know the space-time continuum was compromised when the prez didn't send in the paperwork to HQ on time.
But seriously, hopefully she's learned a lesson here.
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09-07-2007, 10:01 AM
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C'mon now, AF. You know the space-time continuum was compromised when the prez didn't send in the paperwork to HQ on time.
But seriously, hopefully she's learned a lesson here.
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I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm trying to follow this unfortunate girl's thread, but logic and reason (not to mention atrocious grammar) keep getting in the way of this awesome fairytale.
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09-07-2007, 11:20 AM
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C'mon now, AF. You know the space-time continuum was compromised when the prez didn't send in the paperwork to HQ on time.
But seriously, hopefully she's learned a lesson here.
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im really not going to comment on what AF said, but seriously this is a message board, not a place for people to make rude comments to others. If you wanna do that go someplace where someone actually cares. ..
anyways,
I am a sophmore, obviously i was just initated last April. My chapter CLEARLY doesnt know all the rules, or processes, nor did my prez let me know when I told her that this process takes time.
so yeah, i was fusterated because this fusteration has just been a build of different situations that have happened! I began to not take my chapter seriously. there was NO sisterhood there. half the time girls wouldnt show up for meetings, go to events, etc. Our school had a panhellnic(sp?) car wash to raise money. I wanted to go, because you know car washes are fun and I wanted to raise money. All the girls in the other sororities went(there were 2 other sororities). Did any of the ABC girls show up? Only I and another girl, and THATS it. hmm...sounds like great sisterhood to me.
Just little things like that really bothered me, but I didnt switch schools because of the sorority. I switch for other reasons that I wont justify on here.
Yeah, but now with going on this and asking for advice, I got my questions answered, and for future reference I now know that process takes time
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09-07-2007, 11:25 AM
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im really not going to comment on what AF said, but seriously this is a message board, not a place for people to make rude comments to others. If you wanna do that go someplace where someone actually cares. ..
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Maybe you and skylark should become BFF and go start your own flame-free messageboards that's just like GC except everyone there is nice (as long as you're buddy-buddy with the admins) and steal threads from GC without changing the wording, and encourage everyone and their dog to AI. OH, WAIT...
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09-07-2007, 11:28 AM
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this is a message board, not a place for people to make rude comments to others. If you wanna do that go someplace where someone actually cares. ..
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Ok, look...
That was a JOKE about the whole space-time continuum thing. That's why my next sentence started with, "But seriously..."
If you can't take that kind of joke, then you're the one who should go someplace where someone actually cares.
Oh, and by the way, it's FRUSTRATED, not fusterated. And I'm not being rude by pointing that out.
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09-07-2007, 11:31 AM
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Ok, look...
That was a JOKE about the whole space-time continuum thing. That's why my next sentence started with, "But seriously..."
If you can't take that kind of joke, then you're the one who should go someplace where someone actually cares.
Oh, and by the way, it's FRUSTRATED, not fusterated. And I'm not being rude by pointing that out.
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oh hahaha i got ur joke..i was referring to AF's comment. Yeah, that word has always been a difficult one to rememeber how to spell. They seriously should put spell checker on here
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09-07-2007, 11:33 AM
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oh hahaha i got ur joke..i was referring to AF's comment. Yeah, that word has always been a difficult one to rememeber how to spell. They seriously should put spell checker on here
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There IS a spellchecker. When you're posting, if you look in the grey toolbox, up towards the top right.
It looks like this:
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09-07-2007, 11:35 AM
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There IS a spellchecker. When you're posting, if you look in the grey toolbox, up towards the top right.
It looks like this: 
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it's a program known as iespell. it's an internet explorer attachment (free). I have firefox at home and that does automatic spell check, and i put this program for my computer at work, and it seems to work pretty well.
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09-07-2007, 11:36 AM
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im really not going to comment on what AF said, but seriously this is a message board, not a place for people to make rude comments to others. If you wanna do that go someplace where someone actually cares. ..
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she gon tell us how to run out sh!t...
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anyways,
I am a sophmore, obviously i was just initated last April. My chapter CLEARLY doesnt know all the rules, or processes, nor did my prez let me know when I told her that this process takes time.
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so yeah, i was fusterated because this fusteration has just been a build of different situations that have happened! I began to not take my chapter seriously. there was NO sisterhood there. half the time girls wouldnt show up for meetings, go to events, etc. Our school had a panhellnic(sp?) car wash to raise money.
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I wanted to go, because you know car washes are fun and I wanted to raise money. All the girls in the other sororities went(there were 2 other sororities). Did any of the ABC girls show up? Only I and another girl, and THATS it. hmm...sounds like great sisterhood to me.
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sheesh, if i judged my sorority's sisterhood based on our turnout to certain events... im sorry, you just sound like a loser to me. a grammatically-incorrect drama queen that can't get her story together for a message board. there's no other way to say it. whoops, let me go make rude comments where somewhere cares.
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Just little things like that really bothered me, but I didnt switch schools because of the sorority. I switch for other reasons that I wont justify on here.
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you do realize that everytime you say that, the reason(s) changes slightly. you were open to telling us why before (something about the school not having your major, which is legitimate to me) but now you're all shady?
p.s. see all the bolded words? if you hit F7, you mightve known that you.can't.spell.
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09-07-2007, 11:49 AM
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sheesh, if i judged my sorority's sisterhood based on our turnout to certain events... im sorry, you just sound like a loser to me. a grammatically-incorrect drama queen that can't get her story together for a message board. there's no other way to say it. whoops, let me go make rude comments where somewhere cares.
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Ok. Picture this...
you are going to a school with lets say 4,000 students. ABC and XYZ are at Total with 40 girls and EFG is lets say 30.(I am in ABC and we had 40 after rush)
Its meeting time. only about 14 girls show up to a MEETING!!! then your prez e-mails the chapter say "hey..lets all get together tonight to watch Greys, some of SPJ(frat) will be there to" that e-mail was just sent out to for all of us to hang out as a group together..5 of us go, including myself. I being the only girl in my pledge class.
Its greek week, the only time that ABC participated was for the "unknown" keg race.
then again that car wash.
when people dont do things together as a group, which is the reason y we are all in it, makes it seem like they dont care, which is most defiently the impression I got as my new memeber period went on. I would of DP, but I decided to wait it out, I thought "its going to get better, its going to get better" the girls were ALWAYS consistanly with their boyfriends..constantly. The only time i felt sisterhood, was during ritual or when we HAD to be together.
I guess I was just disappointed.
and I left my school yes, because they didnt have my major..
I've just typed that so many times, that I felt I didnt have to anymore
I think half way through the semester
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09-07-2007, 11:59 AM
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I can't remember if you were going to a bigger school (I think you were) but don't judge the new school's chapter on the old school's. They could be completely different and you could love it at your new school. And it could be that you would have never had a snowball's chance in hell at BEING in that chapter in your new school if you hadn't already initiated. So maybe this all happened for a reason.
Small school systems are not like big ones. There are often people in the groups that aren't very "gung ho" and think things like intramurals and Greek week are a stupid waste of time. You happened to join a really un-gung ho group. That's life. If you stuck around you might be able to change it, but it's a moot point since you're leaving due to your major.
And I have no idea what national group you're in, but I'm guessing due to the size of your old school it's one of the smaller ones. The smaller national groups do not have the staff that the larger ones do and sometimes things take longer.
And yeah...spell check and leave mom out of it.
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09-07-2007, 01:54 PM
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I can't remember if you were going to a bigger school (I think you were) but don't judge the new school's chapter on the old school's. They could be completely different and you could love it at your new school. And it could be that you would have never had a snowball's chance in hell at BEING in that chapter in your new school if you hadn't already initiated. So maybe this all happened for a reason.
Small school systems are not like big ones. There are often people in the groups that aren't very "gung ho" and think things like intramurals and Greek week are a stupid waste of time. You happened to join a really un-gung ho group. That's life. If you stuck around you might be able to change it, but it's a moot point since you're leaving due to your major.
And I have no idea what national group you're in, but I'm guessing due to the size of your old school it's one of the smaller ones. The smaller national groups do not have the staff that the larger ones do and sometimes things take longer.
And yeah...spell check and leave mom out of it.
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yeah, I hope I like them. They are known here as the prettiest and kinda slutty group, but I went to the information meeting and they had all the tables set out, and immediatly after they dismissed the meeting and asked the girls to go look around, almost everyone went toward ABC. I mean I just have to wait until the prez says I can meet them and hang out with them as ABC, and your right they might not be the type of girls I'd like to hang out with or they can be the girls who I absolutely loveee. Who knows?
i am not going to say which group it is, but it is one of the smaller organization. They dont have nearly have as many chapters as DZ or phi beta pi (i think thats rights), so It was very hard to find a school that was in a reasonable amount of distance ( I am actually 12 hrs away from home now, but thats as far as I will go)and that had my major, which is to say the least not that common.
It kinda sucks, I felt like (i dont wanna say screwed) but for lack of a better word, screwed. just because at my old school they made such a big deal about having so much fun, getting the best grades, etc. and yeah, I did feel comfortable around them, so I felt like I made the right choice, but still the fact that you say they are gung ho, is SO true!
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Two Questions
1. If you were so unhappy with your old chapter, why did you go through initiation?
2. Why in the world would you call the group you are trying to affiliate with the slutty group? I do not care if that is the rumored image. Do not call girls you want to accept you slutty!
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09-07-2007, 08:59 PM
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i dont think they are slutty..thats just what everyone else thinks.
ok you know what? i didnt come here to be freaking attacked by people who i dont even freaking know. I came here to vent, because maybe people here since mainly everyone is greek would understand my situtation, but i clearly was wrong. theres your answer happy?
you all are switching the story, putting words in my mouth, etc. I signed my bid because during rush i felt comfortable with the girls. during new member period, i still felt comfortable, BUT i was dissappointed because we never did anything, being dissappointed in the way they went about things and being comfortable around them as a person is COMPLETELY different. I went through initiation, because originally I was going to transfer to a school closer to home, and I was set on going there. They also had ABC too. at that time I didnt know that sometimes transfers arent accepted, so i figured that I would go through initation and the transfer into the other schools chapter. All the girls of my chapter knew that I was transfering, BUT the day after initation I went to go visit the school, and thats when i found out that I couldnt go there (for certain reasons). If I had known that before hand then I would of DPed for the respect of the group.
So there are your answers...now just leave me alone
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