My Live Spring Rush Story

[CuriousWildcat]

I just read this entire post and I am excited for you! I hope it works out!

To go back a bit, are you planning on, in the future, becoming a chapter of National Engineering Sorority? (sorry! I can't remember the word I am looking for! Basically your local is absorbed by the national!)

[FSUZeta]

wow, you're really on your way. good luck jess!!

[OHNOITSJESS]

yes. we do plan on affiliating with a national.... eventually.

i'm back home for my 1 1/2 half week summer break. woo-hoo.
other than my family, i hate it here. i'll elaborate on that later.

i can't stop thinking of recruitment ideas, themes, parties, BLAH BLAH BLAH! any ideas??

it doesn't help that i'm known among my friends and family as this ball of constant engergy. i feel like if i'm not doing something constructive, i'm wasting time, and i hate wasting time. [unless it deals with homework.]

SOOO I got a C in linear algebra and Cal 3 and EngineeringEcon. Not the best and i am beating myself up for it, but i also partly blame my mentoring, since the deans kept changing up our roles, and they even changed everything we decided we would do. BOO!
but its still no excuse, esp. since last semester i earned PI! [3.14!!]

but i have to move on and look forward to my Fall classes. and the fact that after this semester i'll be done with my math classes with minor in hand.

now to design our badge! i actually have one designed i have to make a formal sketch of it...
Off to the drawing board i go.

[OHNOITSJESS]

Ok, soooooooooo we meet the basic requirements for one engineering GLO to become a colony... should i stop the local process and start with the national? should i keep the local as is until we get somewhere [further] with the national? should i forget the national?

HELP.

[basic requirements as in memeber size and advisor, and everything else that can happen over the summer, obviously i can't call a meeting until everyone gets back...]

[FSUZeta]

what do you want to do?

[OHNOITSJESS]

well until we get back, i can't officially decide what to do. but after talking with several of the members, most are more than happy to go national.
To make the process and decision offical, we have to vote on it.
i'm excited everything i think of the possibilities!

[OHNOITSJESS]

the sorority is registered with the school [something i've been trying to do for a while] Still waiting on holding a meeting to vote on going national. [Lots of voting going on on that day... Exec board... going national... recruitment stuff...]

So for now we areeeeeeeeeeee...............








































Theta Chi Delta


lol i don't know why i did that it made me feel like i was revealing my house after rush.
our symbols are kind of up in the air for now. and the letters have meaning behind them [thanks to a greek lexicon, procrastination doing homework, and my Greek minor beau]

i'm so excited... everything is going smoothly... so far...
[knock on wood]

[baci]

This is a wonderful example of a woman that did not have the best PNM experience and turned everything around her into an amazing outcome. Best of luck to you!

[AlwaysSAI]

How exciting Jess! Let us know if you decide affiliate with a national. There are a lot of strong engineering/science sororities out there.

Congrats!

[OHNOITSJESS]

woot i actually have a signature
[hopefully it will change to reflect a national soon!]

**Edit : Too bad our colors are close to invisible on the background **

[AOEforme]

That's exciting!

Good luck this semester!

[OHNOITSJESS]

first chapter on tuesday [tomm]. woot.

i'll post back on how it goes.

[FSUZeta]

i like your motto. congratulations jess.

[OHNOITSJESS]

well. so we had our first meeting today. and while 7 girls said they would attend, 3 people [incl. myself and my roommate] showed up. some called me before hand and told me they were called into work under emgergency circumstances or that they always work on tuesdays [ the girl told me a week before].

i guess since they weren't there they don't get to vote[other than those that contacted me], and they have to go through recruitment [since they haven't been inititated since our ritual is what 3 months old?]. i am really really ticked off.

i've pretty much formed this group single handedly [literally] and to see people not taking it seriously makes me wonder why the heck i even bother. but then i know i can't, and that i'm not just doing this for me, but potientially females engineers after me, at my institution.

... off my soapbox ...

[KSUViolet06]

i'm sorry your first meeting didn't go as well. As I have seen in other stories of people founding new local sororities, you'll have these types of frustrations from time to time. Hang in there.