Why I joined ADPi....

[ASUADPi]

I noticed that the "Pledged" thread sisters have put down why they joined a sorority in the first place. So I thought it would be cool to start a thread about "why I joined ADPi". I'm sure there is another thread out there but I wasn't gonna go searching through or 20+ pages I think we have.

So I guess I'll start...


I guess I always knew I wanted to join a sorority. I didn't buy into the cliche that they were party animals or sluts or whatnot that the TV's portrayed them as. I just saw a bunch of girls becoming friends and developing a bond and whatnot. But at the time my "sorority" experiences were limited to 90210 and Saved by the Bell: The College Years, LOL.

When I went away to U of A, a bunch of my high school friends when through formal recruitment. One became a Chi-O another an Alpha Phi. I really thought that I would go Chi-O because of my friend. I never even made it to their house.

See at U of A spring recruitment is much more laid back (as it usually is if there is a formal recruitment). There were still two nights of open parties and then pref night. But the difference was that you could leave the house any time you wanted and then go to another one.

I actually knew nothing about ADPi. I met some girls from my dorm and the surrounding dorms when I was walking to the MU for the "informational meeting". One of the girls had gone through FR but had to drop out due to being sick (Pneumonia I believe). But she had been invited back to ADPi all those times, so that was the house she wanted to go too. Since I really didn't even know where the houses were on campus I was like "whatever".

I went there and I felt so incredibly comfortable. I met a few sisters who actually went to a rival high school up in Phoenix and so we chatted about the rivalry. Then come to discover that we were either all in band/choir at the same time. It was really awesome. Each and every sister just made me feel so incredibly welcome. I loved every second I spent there that night and was disappointed when the night ended and I had to head back to my dorm.

I was invited back the next night and that is when I received my bid. I remember that I was sitting with a group of about five to six girls and one of the sisters, being such a sweetie, had run to her room to get me some contact solution because my contact was getting really dry and about to fall out. The president came over, said she wanted to ask me something. She asked if I wanted to do it in private and I said "no, you can tell me here" (in front of the sisters). She then said "we want to extend to you a bid to join Alpha Delta Pi". She then told me I could "think about it". I told her that I "didn't need to think about it and that my answer was yes". Within seconds the group of sisters I was chatting with were hugging me and screaming and saying "congratulations". I think within minutes the entire house knew I accepted the bid and other sisters were coming up and congratulating me.

So there is my story about why I joined ADPi. Can't wait to read some of the others out there.

[CougADPi]

I'll go next.

When I got to campus I didn't want anything to do with the Greek System. In my orientation group I was the only girl not planning on going through recruitment, and none of the others would talk to me because of it. I figured I didn't need Greek life because I was doing marching band and a church group, plus I was a science major and planned on spending a lot of time in lab.

My roommate was interested in Greek Life, but was too busy sitting in bed watching 90210 reruns (she was VERY homesick). She ended up meeting on of the sisters in a class and got invited over to the house for dinner. She ended up going over several more times and received a bid. She immediately moved into the hosue and she seemed so much happier that I began to change my opinion about the Greeks.

The next semester I was invited to chapter dinner at the house by my former roommate. I loved the atmosphere of the sisterhood, and I really liked song practice (I got to go to that too!). I was invited over a few more times and was REALLY hoping to get a bid.

One night three of the sisters came to my room and offered me a bid! They actually said "We would like to offer you a bid to join ADPi" There was no question there, so I said ok, and waited for them to ask me. They looked at me like I was a freak, but then laughed and officially asked.

We went back to the house and the entire sisterhood was there in the entry way singing and welcoming me and the other two new Alphas. It was awesome!

[lmcsuc]

I remember my freshman year I was very interested in joining a sorority. Chico State isn't exactly a huge school and since I came from a very small town, I wasn't used to being in a place and not knowing a single soul (my hometown had only one stop light at the time). After long talks with my mom, I decided to wait to go through rush until my second year because I wanted to make sure it was something I really wanted to do. So I waited a year. I made great friends in my dorms whom also wanted to rush but decided like me, to wait and we had a great bond and were just as close as sisters.

That next fall, three out of the four of us went through rush and had completly different experiences. We all went to three different houses, Alpha Phi, Gamma Phi Beta and ADPI. It's funny looking back because we all knew that ADPI wanted all of us and same goes for the other sororities, but our hearts felt something different. But as the Rho Chis told us "you will end up where you are meant to go".

We are all still very close but we were able to branch out and meet new people whom we could share a different bond. I actually ended up where I had wanted to go since I had started at Chico. One of the first girls I met at Chico State rushed our first year and went ADPI. When I became an alpha, she was my diamond. So eventhough I tried something new, I ended up at a place that felt so familiar and where I was meant to go from the beginning.

Pi Love

[honeychile]

Okay, my turn!
So, why did I pledge Alpha Delta Pi? Because the women were real, because of the awesome history, because these women showed an enormous amount of class while being real. No one was snooty, even the alumnae, but everyone was genuine. I won't say that the other sororities weren't nice, but I knew I found my First, Finest, and Forever!

[adpialumcsuc]

Ok Me now!!

I came to Chico State as a sophomore. I spent 1 year at Sonoma State and hated it. My room-mate at Sonoma wanted me to go through rush with her but I wasn't interested and knew I wouldn't be staying there for another year.

Once at Chico I knew very few people: my boyfriend and 5 girls that he introduced me to and they asked me to live with them. One of them wanted to go through rush. Once again I really didn't want to but my boyfriend was in a fraternity and I figured at the least I would meet some people and maybe make some other friends. So we went through rush. I felt very out of place at most of the houses but felt different at the ADPi house. I met this wonderful ADPi that had the same major as myself and talked for a long time about why she joined and how she was able to do both successfully. I still hadn't decided if I would accept a bid until pref. It made up my mind. I can't say what it was, but I just felt at home.

My friend and I both received bids from ADPi and were very excited. Just before initiation she dropped out and I was afraid for about 10 minutes until I started receiving more calls than I could count. Everyone wanted to make sure that I was going to stay even though we were connected at the hip. It never crossed by mind to leave, I was just scared not having her with me.

As someone who never thought about being Greek, ADPi was the best choice I ever made.

[EXiADPi]

I joined ADPi the second semester of my junior year, I am on the 10 year program for History/ Social Studies Secondary Education, so I knew I had plenty of time to join ADPi. There was no choice in sorority for me except ADPi because all of my friends I met at NAU ended up ADPi's and told me I was not going anywhere else. I wanted to join a sorority but my parents told me I could not, they have since retracted that comment. I joined a social sorority, Omega Phi Alpha, but it was still missing the sisterhood and friendships I wanted. My junior year I became the Residence Hall Association's Student Affairs director so I could actually pay for the sorority I always wanted to be apart. I was initiated April 23, 2003 (that is also the day I cut my butt length hair to my chin. Initiation was great for me since only 2 people knew I cut all my hair off so the chapter's mouths dropped when they saw me.) I don't regret joining at all and have made the best friends in my life. One is my diamond sister that is getting married next Friday (July 16) and the other is Becca that I met in my first class my freshman year and we made fun of all the people that rushed. Look at us now, we're in greek life. I can't wait for jewel degree and convention since it is only up the freeway from me and is not on my birthday like the Omega Phi Alpha ones. Never fails that July 30 is in it some how.

I found out after I became an alpha that my friend's mom is an ADPi and now I have more ADPi stuff than I can believe since she is handing everything down to me. I get random calls to come pick more stuff up. I can't wait for her to find her pin since is is alternating pearl and saphire just like mine but her's is yellow gold and mine is white gold.

Sorry about anything random. I like to talk, a lot.

[CougADPi]

BUMP

Because I love this thread...and we have lots of new people who need to post their stories!

[nauadpi]

Since I didn't get around to posting on this thread before since as EXiADPi said it was a week before my wedding... I was a little busy at that time... Anyways so back to the story of why I joined ADPi... Well first we have to go back to a phone call my roommate and I had before school started... We were calling to check what eachother was bringing and what we still needed... Then we started trying to get to know each other... Well she then mentioned that she was going to go through sorority recruitment... The first thing I said as soon as we ended the conversation was "Oh no I am going to be living with a Sorority Chick." So yes, I really did not think I would fit in with any of that... My mom, aunt and sister are all in sororities but I am nothing like them so I really had not interest... So anyways then I moved in with my roomie and she went through recruitment... She had a ball doing it too and was so happy when she received her bid... So after seeing how happy she was I thought I would look into it... So then I saw some flyers around campus for a recruitment event ADPi was having on Friday night... Now that is not the sorority my roomie had joined but she said she had liked that group as well and told me to go check it out... So anyways, after passing a booth that they had setup outside the Union about 5 times I finally signed up that I would be going to the event... So I was picked up at my res hall that friday night and taken to the all greek res hall... In the chapter room everyone was there... I was a bit nervous at first, but then they started doing Karaoke... They were having a ball and not caring that they were making total fools of themselves... It was great... It also helped when I looked around I didn't feel out of place... In most situations I do... This being because I am 6ft tall and not a small women... But in that room there were women of all sizes and even a few close to my height... So it ended up being just a comfortable setting...

So then the next day I was invited back up to the chapter room for an interview with some alum and district officers... Yes that was weird but at the same time they really showed how much they loved the sorority and made me feel comfortable very quickly... Then I was given a tour of the res hall and shown some of the rooms and what not...

Ok... so then finally came sunday... I was sitting in my room (which was a big mess at the time) when I got a phone call... It was one of the Adpi's checking to see if I was home and double checking where my room was... Well they said they would be coming by to see me... So of course I quickly tried to straighten my room a bit (mainly get rid of the huge trash bag that my roomie and I had been too lazy to take out)... well when they showed up they offered me a bid... At that moment I did not even have to think about it... I said yes... They then said they would come get me that afternoon for a "bid day" party... Because they were extending 8 or so bids that weekend they decided to hold a second bid day that semester...

Anyways, so I called up to tell my parents and they thought I was crazy... They really could not picture me in a sorority either... It was not till my dad came out for parents weekend and met everyone that he realized how much I really did fit in with Adpi... And now I would not give it up for the world...

[*EtaNu*ADPi*]

I had never wanted to join a sorority. Actually, a girl who I went to high school with was going to go through recruitment at her university, and we all thought she was nuts! I had this distorted idea in my head of what a sorority was, and I really didn't think it was something for me. When I got on campus, I looked into a bunch of things to get involved in and still didn't even consider a sorority. During that first week, each floor of the dorms was given an Orientation Advisor along with the RA to help get us all settled in and pointed in the right direction. My Orientation Advisor and I hit it off right away, she was the nicest girl! We talked about a bunch of things and she told me that she was in a sorority, but she couldn't tell me which one.

I got to thinking that this girl and I were so much alike that maybe I would like to be in a sorority. On top of that, nearly all the girls on my floor, including my roommate, were going to go through recruitment. On top of that, a girl I had just started working with was in a sorority and said I should rush "at least to meet people" and my RA was in a sorority, too! With all those things, I decided that I could at least go through recruitment to meet people, and maybe I'd change my mind about joining one.

The first night of recruitment, ADPi was the first room I went to, and I was the first in line when they opened the doors. The girls started cheering and singing and it caught me so off guard that I made the funniest face (as the girl who rushed me told me later...) The girls were nice and seemed like they really wanted to get to know me. On the second night, I walked in the ADPi room and saw the girl who was my orientation advisor! Every night after rush, I would tell my roommate that I just knew ADPi was where I was supposed to be. She didn't understand how I was so sure, but I just was! I even looked up our chapter's website and checked it all out.

On Bid Day, we got our bids at noon and I was scared to open mine, but as soon as I did, I hugged my Pi Chi (who also turned out to be an ADPi and my Grand Diamond Sister!) and I couldn't stop smiling! I ran up to the ADPi room as quick as I could. The girl who "preffed" me ran up and gave me a huge hug and said she knew I was going to go ADPi since when she first met me on the second night! And the rest is history...

And I couldn't be happier

[emleepc]

My turn:

I was another one of those women that everybody thought was anti-greek---not sure where they got that idea, but whatever. Anyway, my freshman year I lived in the dorms, and my next-door neighbor had joined ADPi (her roommate was a ZTA)....there were ZTA's that lived on the floor too----had I rushed as a freshman, I probably would have had Zeta letters on. But, as luck would have it, I got involved in other things, but continued a freindship with LBD, my next-door neighbor, for the next few years.

Junior year, I had a night class with another ADPi, whom I had become good friends with just through our business classes together every semester, and she invited me to a roller skating COR event. I went with her, after class, and had a lot of fun. I was house/baby-sitting for my boss at the time, and had to leave early unexpectedly, so I figured the sisters didn't have enough time to actually get to know me, to extend a bid. My chances were shot (in my mind).

A couple of days later, I checked my mail box and there was an envelope with the ADPi crest on it. It was my official bid!! I was so excited, and couldn't wait to get started with Alpha Delta Pi!!

Later, I asked how I got a bid, when I wasn't at the event very long. There were so many sisters that I'd had classes with, that had gotten to know me, and I them, that that wasn't even an issue! They were trying to get me to an event just to go through the motions for a bid......they wanted me, and I didn't even know it!

When I was and alpha, and then going through initiation, my old next-door neighbor, LBD, was the president that year.....it was so cool that she was the one who initiated me(cause I'd known her the longest!!)

ADPi was a fabulous experience in college, and continues to be even now. Sometimes I wish I'd joined sooner!!!!

[ARADPi]

I grew up in a college town with a fairly small Greek population. I didn't realy know anyone who was Greek or anyone who even knew a Greek. Everything I knew about sororities came from watching Legally Blonde and Sorority Life on MTV. Now I know how wrong those views were!

During Freshman Orientation over the summer before I began college my Mom and I went to the Greek Life information seminar. They told us all kinds of facts about how great Greek Life is- you know all the statistic about hwo successful Greeks are later in life and they told us about the House Mothers and Philanthropy and all of that. After hearing al of that, I decided to Rush in Fall, mostly because I thought a sorority membership would live me a leg up when it came time to apply for Law School.

The first day of Rush I went to all of the houses with an open mind and decided that I wanted to be in one of two houses- ADPi wasn't one of them. The second day I went back to ADPi and I fell in love! All of the ADPis were so friendly and diverse and genuine. Their sisterhood wasn't just a subject for discussion. It was almost tangible. I could feel that these girls truly cared about each other, and I knew that Alpha Delta Pi was the only house for me.

By the time Bid Day came around, Rush no longer about using a sorority as a stepping stone to Law School. I knew that ADPi was where I needed to be, and that college wouldn't be the same for me if I didn't get to "wear the white and blue boom boom".

I am thankful everyday that I was blessed with such beautiful sisters. I had some really rough times this past year, and I am convinced that if I had not had my sisters behind me, supporting me every step of the way, I would have packed up and gone home to California at the first sign of crisis. Instead of giving up and going home, I leaned on my sisters. Now I have an amazing sisterhood of which I am soo proud to be a part.

[ASUADPi]

Leslie you crack me up

[ADPi Conniebama]

I was reading the previous posts and I realized that we have alot of sisters that had no intention of ever getting into a sorority. Yall, must really have ADPi chapters that know how to recruit. VIOLETS FOR THAT!

Anyway, I knew I wanted to be in a sorority when I went to college. My brother (who is 10 years older then me) went to Birmingham Southern and he was a KA. He made it all looks so great. He even became the KA version of a TCC. He would bring girls home from school and they were in sororities and they all seemed happy and beautiful. He told me when I started to get ready to go to college that I needed to get recs for all of the sororities at my University, so I did. My highschool friends went to all different schools and we all enjoyed talking to eachother about our "rush" expereinces.

Anyway, I am an ADPi because they chose me. A girl that I grew up with was a year older then me and was an ADPi. They rushed the "he##" out of me. They all seemed to know everything about me. I found out later that my friend had really pushed all of the sisters to know me. She was the reason that I took a bid from ADPi; But, once I got that bid you couldnt keep me out of the chapter room. I love the fact that we were so different, but that we all had the knowledge of what ADPi has done and was gonna do. Actually it was meant to be cause my brother actually ended up marrying an ADPi from The U of Alabama. And my cousin became and ADPi at Auburn U. It goes on and on.

ADPi is really a home to me. I even feel more at home on the Alpha Delta Pi section of Greek Chat. (crazy I know but you know what I mean)

Didn't mean to go on so long.

Great Thread.