On October 8th, Abraham joined Regional Director Chris Stockman and Justin Wiseman in a meeting intended to inform the students who had responded to the original mailing of Theta Tau's purpose, goals, and intentions on the Ann Arbor campus. Unfortunately, due to a conflict with introductory physics and math exams that evening, only five people attended that first meeting. Four of those five organized themselves as Mu Theta Tau, a local professional engineering fraternity. Each was appointed an office; of those four, Cullen Worthem Jr was the Treasurer and Dan Jensen became Petition Chairman.

Ed Vinarcik, a Theta Tau alumnus from Ohio State University, volunteered to take the local under his guidance and direction. Mu Theta Tau stumbled in its first few months with recruiting and stable membership until its core of members established themselves. These members, Worthem, Jensen, Julian Broggio, Carl Fischer, Ryan Sekela, Derek Sorensen, Ryan Meder, and Jason Bailey were the driving force in seeing Mu Theta Tau through its required tasks to be eligible for Certification as a Colony of Theta Tau.

Everything was on schedule, a petition had been submitted and approved, and Theta Tau was on its way to Michigan. But Ed had a surprise for the Local. The prospective Colony members discovered less than a week before their certification date that they needed to assign themselves roll numbers and pass a test over the Pledge and Membership Manual that most of them had lost. Those days between this revelation were filled with frantic studying of chapter names and locations culminating at a dinner outing at Grizzly Peak Brewing Company wherein the members grilled each other over how to remember Nu Beta chapter between mouthfuls of hamburger.

Roll numbers were decided, with the aid of Ed, by relative seniority; those who had been around longer were to get the lowest roll numbers. Those who joined at the same time were subjected to a round of "Guess The Number" to decide who would get the lowest roll numbers.

The tests were passed by all (barely in some cases), and all the formalities had been taken care of. All that was left was the actual Certification...