We're Back! Becoming a Pi Phi, by Eleni P.

MD Gamma's blog has been on hiatus for a bit...but now that the semester has ended we're back! We can't wait to share all the exciting things our chapter was up to!
Newly initiated member (an soon to be regular on the blog) Eleni P. writes a fun post about her initiation.



INITIATION: OFFICIALLY A CLASSY PI PHI LADY
By Eleni P.

“DOES ANYONE HAVE A WHITE DRESS I CAN BORROW. SERIOUSLY.” This question, asked more and more frantically as the night of April 13th progressed, might seem arbitrary and overly fashion-oriented to some—but to Pi Phi new members, it was a direly serious subject. Preparations for initiation, the final step in our process to becoming sisters, had been going on for months. After what seemed like an actual eon, April 14th rolled around, and suddenly I found myself surrounded by hordes of ecstatic young women clutching wine carnations on what had to have been the most beautiful day of the entire year. We’d just finished initiation. Initiation truly sealed the deal and made obscure facts about Pi Phi’s origins and dragging myself to new member meetings in the middle of my Sunday homework sessions completely and utterly worth it.

After initiation finished and we’d exploited Sasha’s camera for pictures as much as we possibly could, we changed into vastly more comfortable shoes and re-gathered for Cookie Shine about an hour later. Cookie shine is essentially the best thing ever. Each new member passes around a cookie cake, says something they love about Pi Phi, and then commences to awkwardly attempt ripping of a hunk of said cake. Inevitable laughter and sentimentality fully included. After we had our way with the cookie cake, all of the newly initiated sisters battled for piles of candy that were ever so conveniently laid out in the center of the room. I did it for glory, honor, and the everlasting moral value of jollyranchers. I myself got overly competitive and ended up with a massive bag of goodies that I could never actually finish, but luckily my fam was there to pick up the slack. INITIATION WAS AWESOME. COOKIE SHINE WAS AWESOME. YAY PI PHI!