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Bid Day Best Day!

    Recruitment is finally over and our new members are running home! This process has been so amazing and we are so excited to be expanding our chapter. Each year, there is a theme to each sorority's bid day. For Delta Zeta, their theme was "Honey I'm Home," Alpha Xi Delta had the theme of the 70s, Kappa Alpha Theta was "Howdy Howdy Cowgirls" and Zeta Tau Alpha (Zeta) had "Sweet Dreams are Made of ZZZ's." A tradition on Bid Day is running "home" to your new sorority. Unfortunately, I was not able to run home last year due to COVID, but being on the receiving end was so much better. Before walking over to Affinity Commons to meet with the other sororities, work was done at the Zeta house. 

    Waking up at 7 a.m, it was all hands-on deck getting the house ready. Being the signs chairwoman, I have been working on our bid day banner and bid letters for the past few weeks. It was now finally time to hang the banner up for everyone to take their pictures. Everyone loved the banner and letters, which made me feel better about my artistic skills. As the rest of the sisters gathered at the house, one of our vice president's read off the names of all our new members. Everyone was so excited hearing the names of the girls we really wanted to go Zeta. For Zeta, if you "pref" a girl during recruitment, you get to be the one to welcome her home. Luckily for me, I got to experience this. The girl I had preffed went Zeta and I was so excited to be the one running her home. After the list was read off, our chapter headed over to Affinity Commons and waited for our new members. There were lots of pictures and dancing involved as we waited patiently for the names to be announced, but as time went on we slowly collected our new member class. 

    After collecting our new members, we headed back to the Zeta house for lunch and more pictures. We spent much of the day getting to know our new members and making lasting memories. For my first year of being behind the scenes of the recruitment process, I can say this year was a success. We are so excited for our chapter and can't wait to see what the new members bring to the chapter. As Bid Day ends, so do my recruitment blogs, but have no fear because now we have sorority life blogs to come!


Until next time XOXO,

Hallie


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  1. L.WallsOctober 13, 2021 at 5:04 PM

    Hallie, this seems like so much fun and seems like your own little family inside of ONU. I love seeing all the signs, banners, and themes that you guys come up with! You guys are so creative! I always wanted to be apart of recruitment but just never did, it looks os fun though! I glad it was a success!

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  2. Sydney VanderbiltOctober 13, 2021 at 8:55 PM

    Hi Hallie! Bid day is for sure one of the best days, getting to see all of the new members running home is amazing! I get the pain of waking up early, I am the bid day chairman for Alpha Xi so I was up at 5:30 am to start the set up process. I love getting to look at the different sororities banner and letters because they are also so pretty!

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  3. Garrett AllenOctober 14, 2021 at 8:41 AM

    That looks amazing! I joined a fraternity this year and I know it is a lot different compared to sororities, but I understand the excitement of getting to meet the new people and creating memories.

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