So this year I went to Wingate's Bid Day. "Oh my God, Ashley! What sorority did you join?!" NO. I went to Bid Day to support two of my roommates. I didn't know what I was getting myself into. Here's a list of things that I experienced on Bid Day at Wingate.
1. SO. MUCH. SCREAMING.
I didn't know that people had that much lung capacity, and I'm a singer! Don't know if that was the best vocal health I'd ever heard, but they seemed happy.
2. SO. MUCH. GLITTER.
I love glitter, but holy glitter god there was endless glitter on this day. I think I might still have some left in my lungs.
3. Everybody ran everywhere.
The new girls ran to their new sororities. The sororities ran to their new girls. The Pi Chi girls (the girls that disassociate from their sororities to lead the new girls to their new homes) ran back to their sororities. There was SO. MUCH. RUNNING.
4. Crying.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't get the crying. I'm not Greek, so maybe I don't understand how deep the sisterhood runs. But so many people were crying. So. Many.
5. Chanting.
For a moment, I couldn't remember if I was at Bid Day or at some weird cult meeting. There was so much chanting and as someone who isn't Greek and doesn't plan on becoming Greek anytime soon, it was creepy. The even creepier part is that I remember some of them and I can't get them out of my head. "C-H-I-O-M-E-G-A! YOU WISH YOU WERE ONE TOO!" Crap...
6. So much love.
Even through all the craziness and my sensory overload exploding out of my ears, there was so much love and that was evident. My roommates couldn't have been happier to be Chi Omega's together and were running in and out of the apartment talking about how happy they were. Even though it all freaked me out, I could tell that everybody involved was super happy, and at the end of the day, that's what matters.
