Pledging 10/5/2002
The next afternoon all of the pledges and some of the sorority sisters met at the dining hall. We have scheduled lunches and dinners together. It's nice because for the next few weeks I know I don't have to eat by myself but it also sucks because there have been times I wanted to go out with Alexis, Diane, and/or Ariel and couldn't. Also, every time a pledge sees a sister, they have to stop whatever they're doing, get up, and book over to the sister and say, "Hello Sister So-and-So, my name is_." We have to memorize everyone's first and last names. Next we have to memorize their b'days, pledge classes, their big sisters, little sisters, hometowns, etc. Basically we have to know a little more each week. Anyway, the point is, you don't get much eating done because you're so busy jumping up to greet somone half the time.
Anyway, there are several rules pledges have to obey:
1) Never talk back to a sister. Even if they're wrong.
2) Never question a sister's command--so if they ask you to go and get them a sandwich, or tell you to move your chair, you'd better do it.
3) Never ever leave your pledge notebook where someone outside of the sorority can see it.
4) You must have your stuffed unicorn, your silver necklace, your pledge pin, your pledge notebook, your purple pen, and your folder with your sorority papers in it at all times when you're in public
5) No matter where you are, if you see a sister, you have to stop what you're doing and greet her. (Except in the library, if you're talking to a professor, or if you're in class).
6) Don't complain about Sister A to Sister B.
7) No drinking or smoking anything except cigarettes while pledging (This one is killing me).
8) You could be dying of exhaustion and famine, but you're never allowed to voice a complaint to a sister. When asked 'How are you?' you have to reply with 'I'm great/good/fine!'
I of course, broke the third rule the second day of pledging. Me and my pledge-sisters can leave our notebooks with each other. When we were in the dining hall the day after my b'day, I left my school bag (with my pledge notebook inside) on a chair next to Sara, my pledge sister. She threw my bag on the floor behind the chair and one of the sisters named June got to it. I came back from wherever I was and June says loudly in the middle of the dining hall, "Artist, get your notebok and get over here." I go to my bag and open it up and couldn't find the notebook. June calls "Artist! Looking for this?" and waves my notebook over her head. I could have killed Sara. Do you know how many times I watched over their stuff?? Anyway, so June says nastily, "Don't you ever leave your notebook in the open again!" and shoves it back into my hands. She gave me fifteen demerits for doing that, which is unheard of. That's a ridiculous amount for making a mistake the second day of pledging.
Two days ago I failed my organic chemistry test that I studied so hard for, and now this...I started crying during my interview with a sister named Melissa. I actually had to go into a corner and make myself stop. Since I wasn't allowed to complain or talk about another sister, I refused to tell them why I was upset. (My pledge sister, Tamar, was also interviewing Melissa). Melissa apparently glanced at the back of my notebook and saw the number of demerits I now had, and figured out what was wrong. The demerits were later taken down to five instead of fifteen, but now I have a bad rep amongst some of the sisters. It was actually a sister named M.B. who called up my pledge mom and told her that the number of merits I had received was excessive and unfair. But still...I started problems for myself real fast, which seems to be a habit of mine.
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