This is a picture of me attending Brother Bingo for Delta Sigma Pi. The way it worked was that recruits and brothers each had their own bingo sheet and recruits had to find brothers to sign different spots on the sheet and vice versa. The bingo portion of this event really helped to start conversations with the brothers. This gave me the opportunity to talk and ask upperclassmen and sophomores about Baruch, their majors and why they chose it, what Delta Sigma Pi is like and why they joined. These conversations really gave me a sense of what Delta Sigma Pi was like; all the brothers seemed pretty tightly knit like a family. The conversations also helped me figure out what the different majors were because before I didn’t really know what they were I just picked finance because I didn’t want to do accounting. For now I feel like finance is still probably the best choice for me but now I have a better understanding of what it is, what it entails, and what to expect.
Freshman blocks really limit the exposure to new people. Every class is pretty much the same people and this event really allowed me to meet a variety of people, from different majors, to different age, and different interests. And the bingo aspect let me learn more about them because it forces you to ask questions you wouldn’t normally ask like their favorite ice cream flavor and this allows for a better connection. This even forces you to talk to new people and it was very awkward at first but slowly after talking to more people it got easier which is important especially during the first semester because being in a completely new environment with completely new people you have to start over making friends.