Process Of Sorority Recruitment

The process of sorority recruitment started on a Thursday night, and I had officially decided I was going to participate in it the day before. I was pretty adamant about not joining a sorority for the longest time, but eventually the peer pressure wore me down. It felt like the whole world was telling me to join – even my mom! The first two hours started off pretty decent; I got along with most of my recruitment group and they had a lot of food there, which was great because I hadn`t eaten dinner. As I sat there eating my little finger sandwiches, I noticed that I was separating the girls in my mind – those who acted like the sorority type, and those who were way too individualistic to be there. It didn`t occur to me that I had subconsciously
Right when I sat down with my recruitment group, I felt something that I had never felt before – self-consciousness. Sure I`ve dealt with low self-esteem before, but I`ve never compared my clothes and appearance to other girls, and felt that I wanted to look like them. I thought that these girls looked like they belonged in sororities, and when it was time to meet the first group for the night, I didn`t notice that I was already beginning to put on this fake, positive persona
You could only get invited to three or less, and to my surprise I was invited back to three. To my even bigger surprise though, was that I had gotten invited back to the horrible room, where I had thought that I was never going to have to visit again. That was the first group that I was going to be meeting that night, and I was dreading it. Much like the night before, I was swapped with other girls multiple times, but this time I didn`t mind, every girl was interesting and I found myself actually continuing the conversations. Now, this was “philanthropy night” where all the sororities talk about their philanthropies and how they help the community. The recruitment leaders told us that this was going to be an “extremely emotional” night, and me being my usual self thought that was just stupid nonsense. Well, I cried that night, I cried a lot, and it first started in that room when they showed me the blankets that they make for breast cancer patients. It was less of the fact that these girls came together and actually made an impact on others` lives, but more so that I know a lot of people who are affected by cancer, so it was a touching moment and probably the highlight of my