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Sunday was my day off from class and recruitment, but since I hadnt initially planned on participating in recruitment I had to get up and catch the bus to the mall and buy myself a dress for preference. The mall was very small and didn’t have a large selection of stores, so I was really hoping I could find anything that would work. I had talked to twix and twizzler about what I should wear for preference, so that I would have an appropriate dress. I was lucky enough to find a dress that worked. It helped that the local high schools' homecomings were coming up to give me a better selection. It was a tube top dress in a ruby color.
Monday evening I got dressed wearing dark denim capris and a white and blue top that tied in the back giving a baby doll look. Im not sure what the material was but it was really light, which is partially why I had picked it. We would be in the dorm suites this evening and unlike the student union they were not air-conditioned. We met up in front of the dorms in the quad, so we could go in as a group we would have to wait for a resident to leave because even though the sororities had suites in the building for meetings the residence life wouldn’t allow our Dessert ID cards to open the electronic doors. Our group staked out or own little area of the quad and twix and twizzler passed out everyones schedule. Mine read:
Cookie
Brownie
Tapioca
Rhubarb
Sundae
Cheesecake
Tiramisu
I was happy that I had gotten all the sororities I wanted back, but not really surprised a few of the other PNMs had mentioned that some of the sororities don’t cut PNMs till after the second round. This is because so many girls never return after the first day. I could see this just by looking around the quad every year about half of the girls who go through the first round of recruitment drop whether its because of dirty rushing (girls told to drop out and go through informal rush after formal) or because the first day is so long and grueling.
As I stood in line to go into cookie's suite I looked down the corridor at two of the other suites and noticed that there were a lot fewer girls at cookie than the two others. It made me feel sad and angry at the same time. Like all of the suite doors Cookies door had been painted by a former chapter member it had their name and all of their symbols on the doors. The girls were all wearing matching letter shirts. I remember the one group of girls I seemed to have a really good conversation with but kind of felt bad because the other PNM wasn't talking.
Brownies were dressed in letters although it seemed as though their were a few different types of letter shirts girls were wearing. When we started talking the sister explained to me that each of the different pledge classes got their own unique letter shirts when they were initiated and that was what everyone was wearing. It seemed as though they had separated the bump groups so that members from every pledge class were in each group. We talked about what other events the chapter did besides philanthropy during the year. Brownie we played a version of Charades where we had to guess the scene that the sisters were acting out. It was quite funny and I was definitely laughing. This was the kind of organization I wanted to be involved in. I didn't want to be prim and proper all the time and I definitely wanted to be able to laugh. Maybe I would join a sorority afterall.
Tapioca - by now the heat was getting to me I was definitely sweating! Two of the things I noticed about Tapioca were that they were ethnically diverse and larger than the previous two houses I had been at. The chatter outside had been that this had previously been a bottom sorority, but was definitely rising.
We discussed events the chapter held like at the previous two chapters and played a game as well. The sisters also talked about some of the clubs they were involved in on campus and scholastics.
Rhubarb - Twix came in with us and sat down in the room (The Alpha Omegas did this occasionally to make sure no dirty rushing occurred). Rhubarb was forgettable I definitely didn’t remember anything here. After last round and this round with me not remembering anything I knew I wanted to cut this group.
Sundae - There was excitement murmuring by the doors to their suite. Apparently they had just gotten a window air-conditioner they were the house to have one. I was excited to learn that the chapter was second in grades and very competitive in the greek events held every year. The sundae sister told me that she couldn’t remember the last time they didn’t place for homecoming or greek sing. At the end of the round we got into a circle and played a game they would role a hamster ball around with slips of paper. When it was my turn I pulled out my slip of paper it said which tv show character do you consider yourself to be most similar too. My mind completely blanked____ I couldn’t even come up with female tv characters. I was so upset the recruitment chair told me I could pick another slip. As I was reaching in to grab another slip of paper I heard some sisters saying they could see me as being Joey from Dawson's Creek. My second sheet said pick any childhood TV star you would like to date/marry… immediately I said Zach Morris from saved by the bell.
Cheesecake was next, although I was sad to leave the AC I was excited to come visit cheesecake. They had a really cute table set up of Cheesecake things paddles, big little gifts, and letters. These girls seemed to have a really close bond with each other. We talked about date party and formal. Most of the sororities do the same event for date party which I was getting really excited to possibly attend. It felt like the round was over before I knew the time had flown by so fast.
Tiramisu I felt like I was in way over my head here. The girls were all really pretty. They looked as though they had stepped out of charm school with their polos and Tiffanys jewelry on. Tiramisu had come in first for grades this last semester just ahead of Sundae. They had done greek week with Snickers fraternity and had gotten first place as well. Although they came in second to Sundae at Homecoming.
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