Recruitment Anonymous

If someone would be kind of enough to find me a Recruitment Anonymous meeting that would be fantastic...

I had to do an assignment on my moods for my psych 331 class. The high numbers were when I was feeling "happy" and the lower the numbers went the "sadder" I was getting. This is a little blurb:

...My other high numbers were due to my position in my sorority chapter and on the PanHellenic Council (the association that encompasses 16 sororities on campus and hundreds more nationally). I am the outgoing Vice President of Recruitment for my sorority and I am currently the VP of Recruitment and Retention for PanHell. There are many positions under the VP of Recruitment that make up the recruitment team. One of my first tasks is to interview women and fill those spots. While I was interviewing the women from all different sororities on campus I was really enjoying myself. I love to meet new people and I especially love recruitment. I feel as if this position is an unpaid full time job but I enjoy it so much that I would never give it up.... It is important to take pleasure in life and so the activities I enjoy are the things I like to take part in. I love to exercise and be healthy and I absolutely love to be a part of Greek Life. These are things I do everyday that make me happy, they don’t allow my mood level to drop too low to a point where I don’t want to be...

A few days later Julie asked us to write up a little something about what we learned at AFLV and this is how I responded: 

What was learned at AFLV

• I learned the most from the people I went with. The four councils being together and forming strong friendships in a short period of time gave me hope. It made me believe that what happened to us at that conference could happen to our community. If our exec boards can do it, why can’t everybody else? A cohesive bond is something our community needs.
• I learned that there a lot of things Ohio State can improve upon. We have the numbers and the potential to make our Greek Life as strong as it is at other Big Ten schools. It was pretty obvious that Erin attended the same conference a year before. She really took a lot away from the conference and put it all into action here. Some examples of this are: having the same “catchy” logo for a year, true quota system, etc. What I took away was a little different. Erin made really great steps toward a better recruitment but what I took away was strengthening us before recruiting the members we want. We need to make our community stronger to attract the men and women our way.
• I also learned a great deal from a speaker I went to. It was a lecture about leading with ethics. I actually have been emailing with him (not creepy I swear) and he signed his latest email to me, “With the best of success, remember we do not need luck.” And he is right, we absolutely don’t. Some things are left to chance but for the most part, we are responsible for making the outcome we want. Our boards are responsible for the changes PHA and the entire community will make within these 52 weeks and even after.

As we can see, I cannot stop thinking about recruitment, PHA, our exec boards, and just plain Greek Life. 

SAVE ME!! but I made really cool buttons today at the source for PHA. You guys should make them too!