Week 2: Recruitment Ready!

As the fall semester starts, there are many opportunities to join new clubs and organizations, and sorority recruitment is my personal favorite. 

I personally love it because to me it gets me out talking to new people and learning about others, which I wouldn't normally do. If you're not familiar with our sorority recruitment works or how it works here at ONU, I will break it down. Rush here consists of three nights of going to different houses and talking to the girls already in the sorority. The three rounds consist of Philanthropy, Sisterhood, and Preference rounds in that order. Philanthropy round is the most chill of the three formal nights; each chapter shows a video about their national philanthropy, and it's a good night to start getting to know the PNMS (Potential New Members) as they all make their way to each of the four houses, whereas the next two nights get more serious as both the PNMs and sororities drop each other and figure out where they see themselves for hopefully the next four years here on campus. 

Finally, on Sunday, following the preference round from the day before, it is called Bid Day. On bid day, the RGS (Ro Gammas), who have chosen to disaffiliate from their own sorority, to help the new members find their home at one of the four sororities here. Bring over a bid card to their PNMS rooms, where the PNM chooses to accept a bid from one of the sororities.

Later on that morning, all the PNMS get ready to run home, and I mean literally run (like only 15 feet) to their new home away from home. After all, the new girls run home to their sororities, it is time for the RGS and everyone on the Panhellenic Council to run home. Each girl is announced by name, and they get to unzip their sweatshirt, and they are wearing the letters of their home sorority. I may sound dramatic, but it's actually really emotional, and I usually shed some tears, but maybe that's the emotional part of me that we learned in class the other day when we were talking about our personality types.

As for the class side of things, that also has been a little crazy. I am taking 18 credit hours this fall, which is four classes a day on Tuesdays and Thursdays of my senior year which is due to health reasons that I won't get into. But this semester, it's all classes I enjoy, thankfully, well, besides Spanish 101. I never once took a language to graduate high school, as it was a recommendation vs a requirement, and since the goal at that point in my life was to simply graduate high school, that was the focus. So here I am, senior year, taking Spanish 101, and thank god I have friends in that class, and the professor seems to be reasonable, so I'm taking that as a positive way to look at the class. 

Overall, I'm just trying to take this semester one day at a time and enjoy my time at Ohio Northern while it lasts.