{"id":255,"date":"2012-01-27T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2012-01-27T10:12:37","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T14:12:37","slug":"kate-we-made-our-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2012\/01\/27\/kate-we-made-our-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate: We Made Our Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kate\"Every January, about a week before classes start, the campus fills with girls\u2014thousands of them\u2014all getting ready for sorority recruitment.\u00a0 Whether a sorority woman or a potential new member, everyone has a certain excitement and anxiousness that can only be found during recruitment.<\/p>\n

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Sorority Recruitment 2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This year, over 600 PNMs came out to the Marriot Hotel in Copley to \u201cMake Their Mark\u201d on Greek Life.\u00a0 Only five days later, the same 600+ girls received their bids and excitedly joined their new sisters!<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be honest, Greek Life is not huge at BU, definitely nothing like the \u201cGo Greek or Go Home\u201d schools I grew up around in the Midwest.\u00a0 But we are a growing community and each year, more and more freshmen and sophomore women are joining the nine chapters we currently have on campus.\u00a0 I went through recruitment as a freshman and it was a stressful, exciting, tiring, thrilling, and completely worth it week of small talk, pictures, cheering, and lots and lots of girls.\u00a0\u00a0 But without it, I wouldn\u2019t have met some of my best friends on campus and future bridesmaids\u2026 yes, I went there with that clich\u00e9\u2026but its true.<\/p>\n

And in addition to the sisters, one thing about BU Greek Life that I really love is the support.\u00a0 We attend each other\u2019s philanthropy events, help when our community is in need, and encourage each other through everything.\u00a0 Last year, the nine sororities worked together during Sigma Chi Derby Days, a weeklong philanthropy event to benefit cancer research, and raised almost $30,000! And when a house that members of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity live in caught on fire this semester, the entire community bought supplies and food to get them back on their feet. That service and support will always make me proud to be a member of the Greek community.<\/p>\n

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My Bid night! <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Greek Life at BU is one of those things that you get out what you put into it.\u00a0 If you want to get really involved, that opportunity is absolutely available to you.\u00a0 And if you want it to be one of the many different things you do on campus that’s fine too.\u00a0 But it has provided me an incredible support system over the past year and given me some of the best experiences I\u2019ve had at BU!<\/p>\n

For more information about Greek Life, check out www.bu.edu\/greeklife<\/a> or @BUGreeks on Twitter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every January, about a week before classes start, the campus fills with girls\u2014thousands of them\u2014all getting ready for sorority recruitment.\u00a0 Whether a sorority woman or a potential new member, everyone has a certain excitement and anxiousness that can only be found during recruitment. This year, over 600 PNMs came out to the Marriot Hotel in … Continue reading Kate: We Made Our Mark<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3892,7277],"tags":[44444,44441,7375,6461,7376],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}