Round 4: It’s all Very Serious Talking today. We are hosting 5 parties in the Orchid Room, another fancy lounge in the DUC. Pi Phi is upstairs in the Formal Lounge. We’re wearing black and Pi Phi is wearing black, so the DUC is full of gorgeous young women in black dresses and black heels.
KD is doing a “wish” preference ceremony with white roses. We have a chapter member who is a very talented guitar player, and several who are exceptional vocalists, so there will be music during the ceremony. We have gorgeous wedding-worthy white rose centerpieces and we're serving ginger ale in fancy wine glasses.
This is the first time that the chapter has done a Pref party and most of our members never went through formal recruitment. They weren’t aware of how emotionally intense pref could be, so CAB made sure they practiced their speeches last night. Several of them were bawling during practice. Alumnae were bawling during practice. I teared up just hearing about it. (Memories of pref parties past.) I think they cry less during the first party because there isn’t much call for tissues in between parties.
The alums don’t make sandwiches today. We bought sandwiche trays from Dierbergs, instead. People snack on them as they rotate between parties. The chicken salad is very tasty.
A few of our sisters are dying, BTW, because they can’t watch the NFL play-offs while they are in prefs. People are watching football in between parties on the TV in the “Fun Room” in the DUC. Other sisters are hanging out in a classroom and watching dance videos on Youtube and looking at cat pictures on Reddit. We can't fit every sister in every party.
I also learned that several of our sophomores didn’t take Calc 1 or Calc 2 at WUSTL. They took the AP tests for those classes and went straight into Calc 3 as first semester freshmen. They finished Calc IV in the spring of their freshman year, and are now taking stuff past that. I’m impressed. Math was definitely not my thing. WUSTL students are scary smart.
Tonight is not such a late night, though. The VP-Membership and some alums will tweak the bid list after the last party, but the bid list is pretty much set. They all get to home soon after the last party.
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