{"id":22,"date":"2014-09-12T13:09:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T18:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kaitlin\/?p=22"},"modified":"2014-09-12T13:09:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T18:09:34","slug":"go-greek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kaitlin\/2014\/09\/go-greek\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Greek!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kaitlin\/files\/2014\/09\/pi-phi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-23 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kaitlin\/files\/2014\/09\/pi-phi-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"pi phi\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kaitlin\/files\/2014\/09\/pi-phi-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kaitlin\/files\/2014\/09\/pi-phi.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>After the excitement of finally being at college wore off \u00a0I started to realize how much I missed my friends and Family back home. Thankfully right as these symptoms of homesickness started coming on, it was the start of Fall Formal Recruitment (the process for going Greek). Through this process you go around in traveling groups with 40 girls and visit all of the sorority houses on campus, and through\u00a0mutual selection, find out which sorority you fit in. For me, that was Pi Beta Phi! This process was so amazing. Not only did I gain 120 &#8220;sisters&#8221; but our hall in Burge became especially close too; girls\u00a0who were once strangers are\u00a0now great friends because we all have something in common, our love for Greek! Below I posted a picture from &#8220;Bid Day,&#8221; the day I found out I was a Pi Phi (aka the best day ever).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the excitement of finally being at college wore off \u00a0I started to realize how much I missed my friends and Family back home. Thankfully right as these symptoms of homesickness started coming on, it was the start of Fall Formal Recruitment (the process for going Greek). Through this process you go around in traveling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kaitlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kaitlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kaitlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kaitlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kaitlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kaitlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kaitlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kaitlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kaitlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kaitlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}