When You Made IT!!

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

I came into Tri-Sigma a few weeks ago through COB. I'd been COB- ing for almost 2 weeks.

After my 3rd COB event, their recruitment director said she'd call me after the weekend. I waited all weekend, and got no phone call on Monday.

As I was leaving class the same day, the recruitment dir. caught me on the way out and asked me to yet another COB. I agreed, figuring it wouldn't be anything special.

Me and another girl went to the house that night. We weren't doing anything, but playing board games.

About an hour in, the recruitment director tells everyone to be quiet because she has an announcement to make. I wasn't paying attention because I figured her announcement was for the sisters.

Everyone got quiet, and the NM Educator came out w/ bid day goody bags for us and said:

"The sisters of Tri Sigma invite you to join our sisterhood."

I said yes and we went to Dairy Queen to celebrate

Holy throwback post Batman.

I had been a Sigma for all of 3 weeks when I posted this.

Love it.

[pshsx1]

Oooh I like this thread!

Here's how I got my bid:

I rushed Fall semester of my Freshman year. By the second week of Rush, I was totally pulling for SigEp. One of my roommates got a bid the first week and the other three of us were still rushing (one ended up pledging a different org in the Spring while the other got a bid to two other orgs but eventually dropped and left school).

Anyway, Thursday night arrived and the event that night was bowling. I was very nervous because this was the last night that SigEp was giving out bids during Rush. Eventually, my roommate (the one that pledged another org in the Spring) and I felt very down because the night was winding down and both of us were still bid-less. One of the members approaches me, though, and asks me to help him get something out of his car. I said "okay" and followed him outside. When we got outside, not only did we walk the opposite direction of his car, we went to an unlit spot behind a wall where there were no cars. Around the wall was the chapter president and three guys behind him (these three guys were all 'big names' on campus and within the chapter). They all looked up at me and the president begins talking about how they're glad i"ve come out to so many events and I seem like a really solid guy and a bunch of other good stuff. At the end of his speech, he pulls a bid card from behind him, hands it to me, and says, "we would love for you to be a part of our Fraternity."

Obviously, I accepted. So here we are now.

I remember being extremely nervous (wouldn't you be in that situation!?) and extremely excited once I saw the bid in my hand. The main thing I remember from the bid is the part that says Ritual is on "Sunday, September 13, 2008." That does not exist. :P

[When Doves Cry]

I feel like I already told my story somewhere, but I don't remember where (last time I was on here was November 26, 2008! .. I know this because my profile told me so ) so I will tell it (possibly again?)

I was invited to some COB events by a friend, and I told her I was not interested in joining any sororities. So she told me to just go and at least hang out with her, so I went! After a couple times, she told me the other girls were getting frustrated because they wanted to give me a bid but she had told them I didn't want to join! That, of course, made me feel extremely special, and I really liked all the girls, so I decided to accept the then non-existent bid and told her so.. That night, a bunch of girls came to my dorm room with the bid. I'm pretty sure they were more excited than I was. But now that I am an alumna and I look back on it, I am sooo glad I joined. My college life would not have been the same without my sorority. I don't regret any bit of it!

[ree-Xi]

I had rushed via COB. I really didn't expect to get a bid. The night that bids were being distributed, we had to wait by the phone between certain hours (I think it was between 7 and 11pm or something). If the phone rang, it meant that we didn't get a bid (this was 1990, so no cell phones); and if we were receiving a bid, they'd come to our door.

My dorm had five rooms per suite. There was a locked, exterior door to the suite, so to get into the suite to even knock on the bedroom doors, you had to knock and wait for someone in their room to hear it. Every time I heard a knock on the suite door or the phone rang, my stomach dropped. I remember yelling "not now!!" at anyone who dared call during that time, and told my roommate she better use someone else's phone if she needed to call anyone (although girls in 3 out of the 5 rooms on my suite were rushing - W, C and I).

When the knock on my door finally happened, I opened it, and there was the sister who I had gone to HS with (which shocked me, because I thought that a fight over a boy in HS was going to keep me from getting bid), bid in hand. I hugged her and started crying, while a few seconds later, someone else was at my neighbor W's door, and W started screaming. I honestly could not believe it.

It was then that we heard the phone ring in C's room. THAT was really hard, because we were so very excited. We hugged her before going off to our bid night celebration, and as we were leaving, the president had come to see C to make sure she was okay (which I thought was very sweet, considering that three of us had rushed together and she didn't make it). I don't remember how many girls did not make it, considering there were only 5 slots open.

What was really cute is that when we were gone, someone had decorated our doors.

[alaneagle2013]

When I Rushed I was sure I was gonna get a Bid from one of my top 3 which I did just not on bid day haha...Pike was the number one choice then KA ,Then Sigma NU... I got a bid from Sigma Nu on Bid day I accepted it ,but realize latter that night that I couldnt see myself in it for the long haul and ...Next Night I went to a KA Party and the Guys Gave me a bid right there stopped the whole party I was really shocked and excited! Long story short I'm a Member of the Best Fraternities in the country and I think it was one of the best decisions Ive made!
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