Attention all PNMs ("Potential New Members"):
Congratulations! In a few weeks you will embark on the most hectic, stressful, exciting, and memorable week of your freshman year. If you are anything like I was, you have no idea what to expect. Lucky for you, "The Bachelorette" can help equip you with what to anticipate (in a humorous way).
Since we are currently in the middle of a "Bachelorette" season, imagine yourself as a suitor and the sororities as the bachelorette, Kaitlyn Bristowe.
1. You will pack your bags and leave the house that you have called home for the past eighteen years.
2. After settling into your new home, you will be assigned to a Pi Chi leader. She will be your leader, guidance counselor, and at times, therapist.
Like a host, your Pi Chi leader will guide you to each sorority house, help you navigate the computer systems and act as your personal campus compass.
3. Along with your Pi Chi leader comes a Pi Chi group.
This group will be very diverse, but everyone will have the same goal—to find love, I mean, a sorority.
4. First few days of recruitment: ice water tea days.
Think of these days as cocktail parties full of small talk. Replace the cocktails with water and the sitting with standing and you have yourself a perfect picture of your first two days of recruitment.
5. After two long days of “cocktail” parties, the hard part comes.
You must narrow your list of sororities, and the sororities must narrow their list of PNMs.
7. But do not worry. In the end, you will end up right where you belong.
8. As the week progresses, the list of sororities on your day card will become smaller and smaller.
On these days, tensions will run high, and the atmosphere will be full of excitement, and occasionally tears.
9. Throughout the entire process, you will meet some of your best friends.
10. After a long week, the big day will finally arrive: Bid Day!
On this day, you will open a bid from one sorority asking, "Will you accept this bid?"
Now that you have an idea of what your week will look like, roll into 2015 Panhellenic Recruitment like:
