Well that's how it worked with me... I was invited by the current board to join... and now national has been told and it's being made "offical" and this weekend at initiation some girls were like You're an adviser ? didn't know that ?!! and then one of the girls who was a transfer from another chapter was like "you dont' vote an advisers ?!" and I was like.. Umm.. no... I was just asked/invited by the others to take on the role... so I did... and she seemed really suprised... I know it's going to be a bit weird because I'm so young (24) and just graduated in Dec. and have still pretty much been around a lot so alot of the girls still kinda see me as active.... but it's not like Im' a key adviser (Im' recruitment adviser) an I have the backing of the older advisers so it'll be good, and it's kinda good because I have more of an "insiders" view of the chapter than the older advisers and can really know what's been going on and what needs to be fixed.
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