My Sorority Recruitment Experience Pt. 2

Fast forward to August of 2017. I’m now a Sophomore.

A few months before, my friend Francesca and I had decided to go through recruitment again. Both of us had an unbelievably fun freshman year, but we still really wanted to be in a sorority and make more friends. So the two of us signed up for recruitment, this time with a little bit of hesitation. I kept thinking, “was it weird that we were going through recruitment as sophomores?”

Once August came, I was absolutely dreading recruitment. I couldn’t believe I was putting myself through this long, overwhelming process AGAIN.

But as the rounds came and went, I found myself to be less nervous and much more confident. Since I was a sophomore, I saw a bunch of my friends in each house. Even though I usually didn’t talk with them during recruitment, it comforted me to know that they were there.

Unlike last year, houses weren’t rejecting me. And this time recruitment was almost, dare I say it, fun. I actually enjoyed going into houses that I liked and having good, real conversations. It was such a turnaround from the nerves and fear I felt the year before.

The last round finally came and I was left with two houses that I absolutely loved. It was such a crazy feeling to me that by this point in recruitment I wasn’t disappointed with my choices. I met really great people in each house and actually had trouble deciding which sorority to choose for Bid Day. For once, it felt like my choice, rather than the sororities.

Bid day came around and I wasn’t even nervous. I was actually excited… can you imagine? It was all a blur until I looked at my Bid and I got the house that I wanted- Tri Delta. I was BEYOND thrilled. I remember screaming and smiling so hard that my cheeks literally hurt by the end of the day.

Even better, my friend Francesca had also gotten Tri Delta. Our happiness was contagious.

Even still, as a 3rd year member of Tri Delta, I think about how happy I was on my bid day and get the chills. Rushing as a sophomore was the best decision I had made. Through Tri Delt I have made so many new friends that are so similar to me, I didn’t even know it was possible.

I must say, being a sophomore in a freshman pledge class felt a little strange at first. But the girls that I became friends with were also sophomores and we connected on reasons why we rushed sophomore year. From the moment I met them, I never looked back.

Moral of this story is that if you want something hard enough, you try again. It will work out. I would even say that I am grateful that recruitment didn’t work out for me Freshman year. Because if it did, I wouldn’t be in Tri Delta and I wouldn’t have made the friends that I have today.