Better 10 years late than never. LOL.
My first choice would have been the Phi Sigma Sigma chapter on my campus. Many of my freshman year friends were sisters, were also in another campus organization with me, and I spent tons of time in their suite (which was in the dorm I lived in). HOWEVER....before I could pledge in fall of my sophomore year, the chapter was recolonized. All those girls who were the reason I'd wanted to pledge were no longer active sisters, so I didn't know where I would go or if I would still rush in the fall.
Well GUESS WHAT. Over the summer I realized I wasn't ready for the intensity of the relationship I was in (I had met most of these girls through my boyfriend) - as in he thought there was no issue with the fact that I had never dated anyone else and I should be perfectly happy to be a long distance girlfriend/fiancee for 3 years. HAYLE TO THE NO. We broke up, and many of those girls stopped speaking to me or at the least were just barely cordial to me. To be fair, they were his friends first so I guess I give them points for loyalty. But I can't imagine what it would have been like if I'd been their sorority sister on top of it - that would have been a boiling hot mess.
So while all this was going on, I decided to just go through rush. I had ASA in mind from the beginning, but there were a lot of great girls in my dorm that were XYZs and really made me feel welcome there....plus I liked PQR much more than I had thought I would. I ended up listing ASA first, XYZ second and PQR third. I remember sitting in my dorm waiting to be picked up by whichever sorority I was in and thinking, "Oh, crap. Why did I do that? I don't want to be an XYZ!! I want to be an ASA!"
Well, a score and a quarter-score later...I know that NWIH would I have been happy in XYZ, and I'm friends with more PQRs than any sorority other than mine.
Hybrid Mode
