I was a Rho Chi my senior year. It was a great experience, but I wish I had not done it my senior year, since that was my last year with my sisters and I missed out being with them during Rush (as we called it in my day). Also, the skit they performed at Theme Party was one I had written -- and I didn't even get to see it!
All that said, though, I loved being a Rho Chi. My PNM's were a great, diverse group of young women. Spending the week with them was an opportunity to work with and relate to different personality types on both a group and individual basis. It was also an avenue for promoting Greek Life as a whole.
The downside? I did see some girls really get hurt. A few of mine dropped out of recruitment when they saw their invites to Pref and nothing would convince them to continue on. Following Pref, I had two girls who were dropped and did not receive bids to any chapter. It was probably my first real experience at handling a difficult situation, and being the messenger of such heartbreaking news is not on my list of things I'd like to repeat. It IS a very real possibility in recruitment, so my advice would be think ahead of how you might handle this situation. When I interviewed for the Rho Chi position, the Panhellenic Advisor presented a variety of different scenarios and asked me how I would handle each one.
Good luck!
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