Retro Recruitment:: a brutally honest story

[aprocess]

UGHHHHHHHH!!!!!

So sorry guys!!! I have commited the standard GC Crime that I often rant about! Not updating in a timely DETAILED fashion! I was supposed to update last night, but I suck at life and went on a random trip with friends (friends? or sisters? you will find out soon ) to get mexican food (why we drove 45 min for mexican food when there is mexican food right around the corner was a mystery to us).

WILL BE UPDATED WITHIN THE NEXT 4 HOURS!!!!!

[rcnjinterest]

YAY! Can't wait!

[BabyPiNK_FL]

Originally Posted by aprocess

UGHHHHHHHH!!!!!

So sorry guys!!! I have commited the standard GC Crime that I often rant about! Not updating in a timely DETAILED fashion! I was supposed to update last night, but I suck at life and went on a random trip with friends (friends? or sisters? you will find out soon ) to get mexican food (why we drove 45 min for mexican food when there is mexican food right around the corner was a mystery to us).

WILL BE UPDATED WITHIN THE NEXT 4 HOURS!!!!!

It must be sisters because it's sisters that LOVE to make those random trips for no good reason! Come back soon!

[aprocess]

Ok, So if this is completely not PC on GC, Please let me know and i will delete it.

At one party I went to my freshman year at a frat (remember, I was not in a house my freshman year), i remember being upstairs. I was walking the halls of the frat house going into some of my guy friends rooms (that was where hard alcohol was/you did not have to wait in line for a beer). I was about to go back downstairs to meet with my other friends when one of the fraternity brothers ran down the hall yelling "CLOSE YOUR DOORS!!! CLOSE YOUR DOORS!!!! GAMMA IS HERE!!!!! CLOSE YOUR DOORS!!!!"

In my head I thought, "Man, why don't these guys like the Gamma sorority geeeeezzzzz?"

I finally figured out that they were not talking about a sorority

[nittanyalum]

Originally Posted by aprocess

Ok, So if this is completely not PC on GC, Please let me know and i will delete it.

At one party I went to my freshman year at a frat (remember, I was not in a house my freshman year), i remember being upstairs. I was walking the halls of the frat house going into some of my guy friends rooms (that was where hard alcohol was/you did not have to wait in line for a beer). I was about to go back downstairs to meet with my other friends when one of the fraternity brothers ran down the hall yelling "CLOSE YOUR DOORS!!! CLOSE YOUR DOORS!!!! GAMMA IS HERE!!!!! CLOSE YOUR DOORS!!!!"

In my head I thought, "Man, why don't these guys like the Gamma sorority geeeeezzzzz?"

I finally figured out that they were not talking about a sorority

Ok, maybe it's the cold medicine muddling my brain, but I have no idea what this is talking about.

[gee_ess]

Originally Posted by nittanyalum

Ok, maybe it's the cold medicine muddling my brain, but I have no idea what this is talking about.

I will second that!

[aprocess]

I woke up just knowing I was getting a bid from serena. I let them know I loved them and got to know the girls so on such a diferent level. it was not 'girls I got to know at recuitment'. It was girls I wanted to share my life and memories with. I was so excited. I dressed up in clothes I wanted to wear for Serena. I had never been so excited to walk the long walk to campus as this day. I walked to my group leader, they gave me an envelopeand told me to sit on it (they did not want us to try to decipher where we got a bid to till they did their speel). my leaders revealed themeselves (a Marissa and a Ryan). They talked about hw much they enjoyed this process with us andtold us as soon as we opened up our envelopes to RUN to the house to join our sisters!

1.........2........3.......

I opened up my letter!!!!!!

This is a bid for 'aprocess' to join the house of....



























































































































Marissa.....











I was devestated. But like the other girls who ran to their house, I speed walked to Marissa. As I walked I could not figure out where I went wrong. I thought it was all good. I knew I wanted to be affiliated. Espescially since I had been so envious of my roomate and the memoreies she created her college year. So I continued to speed walk.

i passed several other houses--including serena. That one made me so sad. I saw all the girls I had met during the week. I started to walk slower now.


It stuck me.


I did not know one girl's name in marissa. I knew at least 12 in Serena, but not one girl stuck out or I had a memorale time with. This depressed me. I thought this was my decision, i thought both houses wanted me and I got to pick where I ended up. I did not know what happened.

I decided to make a left at a street away from the houses. I called my roomate so she could pick me up.

I no longer had a boyfriend I could cry to like I did last year. I felt so rejected.

My roomate came and picked me up and took me home where i wasn't just depressed about recruitment, but that i had n one to share that feeling with who would understand.

[ASUADPi]

Originally Posted by aprocess

I woke up just knowing I was getting a bid from serena. I let them know I loved them and got to know the girls so on such a diferent level. it was not 'girls I got to know at recuitment'. It was girls I wanted to share my life and memories with. I was so excited. I dressed up in clothes I wanted to wear for Serena. I had never been so excited to walk the long walk to campus as this day. I walked to my group leader, they gave me an envelopeand told me to sit on it (they did not want us to try to decipher where we got a bid to till they did their speel). my leaders revealed themeselves (a Marissa and a Ryan). They talked about hw much they enjoyed this process with us andtold us as soon as we opened up our envelopes to RUN to the house to join our sisters!

1.........2........3.......

I opened up my letter!!!!!!

This is a bid for 'aprocess' to join the house of....



Marissa.....



I was devestated. But like the other girls who ran to their house, I speed walked to Marissa. As I walked I could not figure out where I went wrong. I thought it was all good. I knew I wanted to be affiliated. Espescially since I had been so envious of my roomate and the memoreies she created her college year. So I continued to speed walk.

i passed several other houses--including serena. That one made me so sad. I saw all the girls I had met during the week. I started to walk slower now.


It stuck me.


I did not know one girl's name in marissa. I knew at least 12 in Serena, but not one girl stuck out or I had a memorale time with. This depressed me. I thought this was my decision, i thought both houses wanted me and I got to pick where I ended up. I did not know what happened.

I decided to make a left at a street away from the houses. I called my roomate so she could pick me up.

I no longer had a boyfriend I could cry to like I did last year. I felt so rejected.

My roomate came and picked me up and took me home where i wasn't just depressed about recruitment, but that i had n one to share that feeling with who would understand.

Honestly, I'm surprised too. It might just be me, but if I were rushing a girl who said "I found my home is XYZ" I can't say I would want her to be high on our bid list. Like I wouldn't want someone in my chapter or even give that "spot" to someone who has said that they basically wouldn't want to be there. Does that make sense?

Something tells me that this sounds like it was a computer glitch. That you were supposed to be matched with Serena but somehow you got matched with Marissa.

[AlwaysSAI]

Wow, you're story has me on pins and needles.

CONTINUE!

[breathesgelatin]

Originally Posted by ASUADPi

Honestly, I'm surprised too. It might just be me, but if I were rushing a girl who said "I found my home is XYZ" I can't say I would want her to be high on our bid list. Like I wouldn't want someone in my chapter or even give that "spot" to someone who has said that they basically wouldn't want to be there. Does that make sense?

Something tells me that this sounds like it was a computer glitch. That you were supposed to be matched with Serena but somehow you got matched with Marissa.

I'll be frank and say that if someone had said that to ME during pref night, I would have found it so insufferably rude that I would have attempted to find some way to have her CUT. LOL. I know that's not possible due to NPC regulations, but really - what could you expect from Marissa if you said that? I bet they weren't even expecting you to bid day when they saw that you were on their list.

Live and learn, I guess.

[tld221]

Originally Posted by breathesgelatin

I'll be frank and say that if someone had said that to ME during pref night, I would have found it so insufferably rude that I would have attempted to find some way to have her CUT. LOL. I know that's not possible due to NPC regulations, but really - what could you expect from Marissa if you said that? I bet they weren't even expecting you to bid day when they saw that you were on their list.

Live and learn, I guess.

on the other hand, maybe "aprocess" was so awesome as a PNM to Marissa that they were going to give her a bid regardless of she expressing that Serena was the house for her. and if that's the case, then i'd hope that they'd at least check up on her (because i think if "aprocess" had accepted another bid, Marissa wouldve known in the coming days/weeks, right?) i guess this crosses the line of mutual selection, because, IMO, Marissa giving "aprocess" a bid knowing that she wouldnt accept it is the equivalent of a PNM putting XYZ down on her bid card knowing she wouldnt accept a bid from them.

OR perhaps the girls at Marissa talked to Serena and it backfired. I still think it was a waste of time for a house to give a bid if a PNM clearly says she wants to be somewhere else. Doesn't that make that house look pushy or even desperate?

[aprocess]

.... the facebook message was frommmmmm












Jessie from Serena. What did it say????

[myopicsunflower]

You are SO killing us here!

[aprocess]

Jessie wrote me:

"hey!!!! omg, i was so sad to not see your name on the bid list!!!! oh well, we can still be friends! Dinner?"

I wrote her back and said

"YES!!! defin. thursday"

I remember getting ready for dinner. it was so wierd. I felt like i was either going on a date or going through recruitment again (though I knew recruitment was over). She lived in the house, so I drove down and went to pick her up.

I was thinking of topics to talk to her about JUST like recruitment. I really did want her as a friend and maybe, just maybe, i could go through next year (after my year was up) and i could know more girls through Jessie. Maybe Jessie would even tell me what happened this year. I was still utterly confused.

So I got to the door and knocked.....

[gogreekmom]

Oh please finish your story -- this is torture!!