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10-04-2006, 09:12 AM
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HOORAY!!!!!
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10-04-2006, 09:27 AM
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Congratulations to your friend! I've met some alumnae from that chapter and they are awesome. She should be proud! 
ETA: Going back to re-read, was that a hint you gave us about the "warm fuzzies" at Dior? 
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10-04-2006, 09:56 AM
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Congratulations to your friend Beth and AXD!
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10-04-2006, 10:52 AM
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Yeah ... Another new Alpha Xi Delta !!! Tell your friend congratulations for us and tell her to join us here on GC!!
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10-04-2006, 11:10 AM
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My friend says "thank you". She says she's actually going to read this tonight, since she knows I've been writing it but hasn't had a chance to check it out. She's been having an awesome time in her chapter so far!
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10-04-2006, 11:43 AM
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Congratulations to your friend!
You did a beautiful job writing that story...good work!
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10-04-2006, 11:44 AM
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I haven't read any of the rush stories this year - haven't had time - but this one sucked me in! Jocelyn, you need to be a writer!! Congrats to your friend, I'm so glad everything worked out in the end for her!!
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10-04-2006, 11:47 AM
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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06
Well I know you're all anxiously awaiting the end of this story:
So after she decided to only list Dior on her pref card, she went to a room in the student center where PNMs have to remain until bid matching. From the last pref at noon til bid night starts at 6, they cannot leave that floor of the student center except to get food. It's a long wait, but most women bring homework when they show up to meet their SRCs in the morning so they can do it while they're waiting later on.
It's really nervewracking to sit in a room with like 30 other PNMs (it's 2 SRC groups to a room) and listen to them for that long. Some girls she says were FREAKING out about whether they were going to get their #1 or whether they'd made the right choice with their rankings. She was no exception. She didn't want to get released from recruitment, but she KNEW she wouldn't want a bid from that other group. So she tried to keep from thinking that she'd made a mistake in only listing one group. It didn't help that everytime someone asked how she ranked her 2, and she said she only ranked Dior, they'd be like "OMG my SRC told me not to do that because I might not get a bid! OMG!"
So she sat, and she actually prayed to God (she's religious) that if this was the chapter for her, to please let her get a bid from them. Then she sat some more.
Finally, around 5ish, the head SRC came in and said, "We're ready for you 2 groups to come down and get your bids!" The walk down from the 3rd floor to the 2nd floor Greek Life Office seemed SO long. She just wanted to know!
So she gets downstairs and has to wait 30 minutes in line. One by one, the PNMs ahead of her went into the office and returned with opened envelopes in hand. Some were jumping up and down, others were indifferent, some didn't look happy at all. She was nervous now. She was starting to feel like maybe this wasn't going to work...
Well, she said she noticed something when she went into the office. Her SRC was holding an envelope. She'd only listed one chapter on her pref card, so if there was bad news, there'd be no envelope.
She practically snatched it out of her hand and ripped it open. She said her SRC and the head SRC were cracking up because she was so excited and they knew how lucky she was to only list them and get a bid!
After they get their bids, if they accept, the PNMs go downstairs to the first floor and line up to get ready for Bid Night. One by one, the girls walk out the doors and are announced, then they run down the plaza steps to their new sorority!
She looked out the window into the plaza and could see her new sisters and couldn't wait to join them! Finally it was her turn!
She stepped out into the plaza steps and waited for the SRC to read her card: "Beth ______ is a new member of Christian Dior!!!
She ran down so fast that she nearly tripped! She headed straight for the girl who preffed her, who had tears in her eyes!
She was immediately given her bid day shirt and swamped with hugs. She was so relieved to finally be done with recruitment, she didn't know what to do! So her other pledge class members were announced and she was so happy to meet them all! She went to the house, ate cake, and took pictures. When she returned to her room that night. There was a sign up next to her door made her cry just to see it.
It was bear shaped, and it read, "Welcome to Alpha Xi Delta! We love you!"
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Ooh that's tight. Congrats to your friend. We have AXiD on my campus, if I was going to join a white sorority I would've joined it.
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10-04-2006, 02:14 PM
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Yes I definitely agreed about being a writer or even a lawyer for those kick butt writing skills!! I wish I had some of that talent to be able to hurry up and finish this awful paper I have to write
But GREAT thread!! This has been the best one yet and mine story telling sucked compared to this
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10-04-2006, 02:32 PM
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Oh, we just got our proofs of the Bid Night pics! Beth and I took a really cute pic together in our Bid Night shirts (since we go to the same school) and I'm probably going to buy it because it's adorable!
And thanks for all the compliments on my writing skills, but really it's all Beth. She took great notes and wrote great journal entries about rush and that helped me to capture the experience better.
Also, I had someone ask me if I would get offended if Beth told me she didn't like my chapter during recruitment. I told them, honestly, a sorority is like a pair of pants, for you to be comfortable, you have to find the one that fits you. If you wear your friend's pants, they may not fit you well.
I forgot to add another interesting piece of the story. Her awesome SRC who basically was the reason she stayed in recruitment, ended up being a Sigma Sigma Sigma!
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10-04-2006, 03:20 PM
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Congrats to you and Beth!
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10-04-2006, 03:40 PM
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Congratulations to your friend! Our Kent State chapter is really awesome and I am so glad she found her home there!
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10-04-2006, 04:17 PM
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Congrats to your friend and hope she enjoys AXD
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10-04-2006, 06:35 PM
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Congrats to your friend and Alpha Xi Delta! She made a ballsy gamble and it paid off...
I coulda used her luck when i was in Vegas a couple of weeks ago
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10-04-2006, 11:03 PM
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Congratulations to your friend! I am so happy to have such an awesome new sister!!!!!!!!!
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