GIVE IT A CHANCE

If I could go back in time and speak to my younger self on pref and bid day I would say give it a chance. I was cut from my top house and had one house left on pref. It was a house I didn’t want. I saw the girls in my gamma chi group so excited and happy and was so jealous. I went to pref after a talk with my gamma chi, and I looked around at who could be my new sisters. I kept hoping I would suddenly feel at home.

Bid day was hard, as everyone around me opened their bids and got excited I tried not to cry opening mine. I kept telling my parents I wasn’t doing this and to take me home. My mom told me I had gifts at the house, so begrudgingly I went to the house passing the house I thought I would be running home to on bid day, I was DEVASTATED. As I went to look at my gifts I started to cry, this wasn’t how it was supposed to happen. I began questioning everything what did I do wrong? Am I not good enough? I kept whispering to my mom I wasn’t doing this and pulled it together long enough for the bid day pictures. The bid day event was still going on and my mom told me to at least go for a bit and just talk to girls in my pledge class. And of course I didn’t I stood in a corner texting my friends about their bids and they all got the houses they wanted.

I got home that night and said I’m not doing this, I guess I won’t be in a sorority (which is what I always wanted as part of my college experience). I then got a call from my family friend from the house I wanted, we talked and she told me that you truly end up in the house you belong in. She told me to give it a chance at least until initiation and if I was still unhappy I could say I tried and drop.

I know you all have heard trust the process, the process works, you truly end up where you belong and if you are like me you probably rolled your eyes. But I’m here to tell you I ended up in the right house for me. If I had ended up
I’m the house I originally wanted I would have dropped. So the moral of this rambling story is if you are not running home to what was your dream house, still run to the house you get. Don’t just drop, go to the house I promise you won’t regret it.