Let me take you down cause I’m going through…
Formal Recruitment!
Hi, GC! My original intent was to wait till recruitment to register on here and post my story, but I just couldn’t resist the “Make a baseless accusation” thread in the Chit Chat forum.
Before I start recruitment; here’s a quick background story. It’s one of the reasons that I wanted to join a sorority.
I grew up in a small town that, for the sake of discretion, I’ll call Liverpool. In Liverpool we didn’t hear much about University and even less about Greek Life, which is why I didn’t even know what a sorority was in my freshman year of high school, when I travelled to a faraway school to attend a festival. This was the University of Jazz. As our bus pulled up to the Student Union, I noticed a building down the street. It was white with blue trim and was adorned with strange letters. I recognized the Greek letters from taking math and science in school, but I couldn’t understand why they were on a building. Was it a Physics building or something?
Later in the festival, I got lost on my way to a workshop and a friendly girl wearing a t-shirt with other Greek letters on it helped me find my classroom. When I mentioned that I had seen similar letters on a building she explained to me that she was in a sorority and the building was a sorority house. I found the idea of sororities interesting but slowly forgot about the building and the helpful girl when I returned home to Liverpool.
By my final year of high school I was focusing on applying to two universities. The University of Rock was located far from home, but it had a special program for the major I wanted to take. The University of Roll was close to home, but didn’t offer the major I wanted. It had a similar program that would lead to the same credentials, but I wouldn’t have the same major. My parents really liked this school and were encouraging/pressuring me to go here. One day I decided to look up student groups on both university campuses. I was shocked to find that both universities had Sororities on campus. After thoroughly examining both the Greek Life and individual Sorority websites for both schools; I decided to go through recruitment. I loved both schools and knew that I’d be happy at either campus, but I wasn’t sure which school would be the best fit for me. I ended up being accepted to my first-choice university and I know now that this is where I was meant to be.
Now that that story’s out of the way, I can talk about Recruitment, which started today with Orientation, where we were be put into groups and learned about the process of Recruitment. My Recruitment Counsellor’s name is Penny Lane and she is very helpful and friendly. The other PNMs in my group all seem to be really quiet, but maybe we’re all just overwhelmed by all the information we were given. Recruitment continues tomorrow with Round One, when we’ll visit all four houses on campus. Because my school seems to have a unique recruitment schedule, I’ll sometimes update my story the same day as the Recruitment Event, sometimes, if I have a lot of homework, I’ll update the next day, but I’ll always write as though it’s the day of the event.
Please stay tuned!
PS, does this show up as a normal thread? The post looks really wide on my computer.
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