Originally Posted by Loyally Kappa (Post 2285510)

Don't get me started on Teach for America.

Originally Posted by Loyally Kappa (Post 2285385)

I've spent the past 24 hours amused by the Pink Sequin Panty Hose thread. I'm not a regular on GC, because since finding it in 2008, I only ever sign back in as the next fall semester is beginning. I don't have an interesting "retro" story to tell, but I have (this past year) begun to think about FUTURE recruitments.

What would this be? An "An-Retro" story? (Like aerobic vs Anaerobic?). Y'all that are good at the ole language arts stuff, help me with the proper grammar.

I'm a math ed professor. That means I teach folks how to teach math. And yes, here at Ole Miss, the majority of my students are future elementary school teachers. And the majority of my students are sorority girls. I like that they look at me and seemingly say, "Well, she was a sorority girl, and she turned out okay."

But earlier today, I was lamenting to a friend that I did not think I personally knew anyone going through rush/recruitment this year. She told me that was not the case.

Okdin ... so I am apparently not as old as I thought I was. I now know that I know twin girls going through rush/recruitment at Alabama this fall! Yay for me ... I am still in the loop, albeit just looking at that loop from the next state over.

I never gave it a thought ... in my younger days, not knowing anyone in rush/recruitment for all those years while my own daughters and the daughters of my friends and family were attending preschool, elementary school, middle school and high school. I began to become enthralled with rush/recruitment again as the daughters of my older friends and family slowly started matriculating. I cannot begin to tell you the thrill I felt when I received the first postcard from an "active" young GLO lady I personally knew ... asking for a donation, of course. (Her mama was the librarian at my daughters' elementary school.)

But as I turn this next corner and have to wait for the GRANDDAUGHTERS (my own, of which I don't have any ... yet ... and those of my friends ... of which there aren't many ... yet), to go through rush/recruitment, I've decided to quit dying my hair and become an, ahem, older alum.

I'm in my fourth month, and I am glad to say that I don't have as much gray hair as I thought I was covering for. Whew. Who would have seen that coming.

How does everyone else handle "An-Retro" rush/recruitment?

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby (Post 2286031)

University of Alpha Centauri, class of 2354.

Originally Posted by aephi alum (Post 2286082)

Mal Reynolds
Zoe Washburne
Hoban "Wash" Washburne
Kaylee Frye
Inara Serra
Jayne Cobb
Shepherd Book
River Tam
Simon Tam

Originally Posted by aephi alum (Post 2286082)

Hi! I'm a new freshman at UAC, and I'm so looking forward to recruitment!

UAC is a huge campus. We have 31 out of the 42 NPC sororities (including all 26 of the "old-school" sororities, the ones who have been part of NPC since at least 1951), plus two locals. The locals participate fully in NPC recruitment - I've heard that usually locals hold their own recruitments after formal recruitment, but that's not the case at UAC. I've gotten recs to 29 of the NPCs. Also, my aunt joined one of the locals when she was here, so she wrote me a letter of introduction.

I'm a huge fan of late 20th century and early 21st century science fiction, so I'll be coding the sororities with the names of characters from some of my favorite shows.

Mal Reynolds
Zoe Washburne
Hoban "Wash" Washburne
Kaylee Frye
Inara Serra
Jayne Cobb
Shepherd Book
River Tam
Simon Tam
Jack O'Neill
Samantha Carter
Daniel Jackson
Teal'c
Jean-Luc Picard
William Riker
Data
Deanna Troi
Worf
Tasha Yar
Beverly Crusher
Wesley Crusher
Rose Tyler
Donna Noble
Martha Jones
Jack Harkness
Amy Pond
Rory Williams
River Song
Clara Oswald
Buffy Summers
Willow Rosenberg
Xander Harris
Rupert Giles

I met my Sigma Rho Chi today. Her name is Chiana, and she's very sweet, though a bit on the wild side.

Round 1 takes place over three days. We'll be visiting 11 chapters each day for 20 minutes each. Then we have to list our favorite 24 for round 2, and rank-order the other 9 as our alternates in case we're not invited back to all of our top 24. Then, during round 2, we visit 8 chapters a day over 3 days (assuming a full schedule). Ugh, this is exhausting! But I hope that, when all is said and done, I'll end up joining an awesome group of sisters. From what I know about each chapter, I can't go wrong - they're all amazing!

(Who wants to write the next installment? ;) )

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby (Post 2286108)

I heard that Worf and Jean-Luc Picard only take PNM's with perfect 4.0's, and I have a 3.95 because I got a B in droid-building my sophomore year. Does that mean they've already cut me?