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30 Stages Of Life As A PNM

It's all worth it in the end.

Kay-Lynn Klug

Sep 25, 2016

Baton Rouge, LA

Kay-Lynn Klug

Anyone that is a member of a sorority remembers their entire experience as a Potential New Member. That grueling week of recruitment is unmatched by anything else I have experienced in college. Unlike the popular opinion, sorority recruitment is not a cultish weed-out program meant for only conformists to survive. Sorority recruitment is an opportunity to make friends, learn about amazing sisterhoods, and ultimately find the house that is best for you. Here are 24 of the thoughts, feelings, and events that will happen during your time as a PNM.

1. Panhellenic Information Sessions

2. Listening to the Presentation

3. Realizing that recruitment sign up is getting close

4. Struggling to fit all of your activities onto a one sheet resume

5. Finding parents and strangers to write recommendation Letters

6. Signing up for recruitment within the first hour

7. Getting together outfits for each round

8. Looking at the reputation for each house online

9. Discreetly stalking active members before the social media ban begins

10. Gamma Chi groups start to form

11. One last panic attack

12. Recruitment begins with an informational meeting

13. Planning and re-planning your outfit for round one

14. Getting to the row 30 minutes early

15. Lining up in front of the first house when you're still three houses away

16. PARTY STARTS!!!

17. First party ends and it wasn't that bad

18. End of round one

19. Your bottoms don't coordinate with the philanthropy t-shirt provided

20. Back on the row and everyone else is wearing odd colors too

21. PARTY STARTS!!!

22. Halfway through recruitment and you're so conflicted

23. Time to plan for round three

24. I'm beauty, I'm grace... trips into the house

25. Oh look it is now flooding outside

26. Seeing active members inside the restaurant where you were about to eat

27. Round four begins with low singing and crying rather than the usually deafening screams

28. Selections begin. It's time to make one of the biggest decisions of your life

29. It's bid day morning and it feels like Christmas!!

30. You finally get you bid and your life as a PNM comes to an end as you run down the row

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