YAY!!!! I'm sooo excited for your rush to start! I'm soo excited to read you're thread coz its a Michigan thread and especially coz you're from my hometown!!

*does a dance*

I saw that, too! My brother goes to that school, I saw the newspaper online. I thought the same thing.:rolleyes:

Best wishes to you !!! I hope you have a wonderful time in recruitment!!!

Im so excited for you!!!!! I am definitly ready to hear all about this one :) have a great time!

Nichole

Good luck! Maybe we'll get our 4th GC Delta Gamma pledge of the year!

Good Luck! I'm so excited to hear how it goes!

*bump*

Rush starts today!

Rush Starts Today!!!
at 5:30 i have to go to my appointed spot to meet my rho omega and get my schedule for the first night of mixers and fill out the name cards we give to the last rusher we talk to. and at 6:30 the parties start. When the parties end at 10 we go and rank the houses. The thing i kind of dont like about this is that we dont know what houses we are visiting until we are already there.
I have class from 1-2 and I am coming back to my room for some intensive beautifying! I am going to restraigten my hair, paint my nails etc etc etc (and eat!). i am already getting butterflies in my stomach and im sure by the time rush starts they will be bats!

I've decided to use colors for the houses in no particular order:
Red, Orange, Yellow, White, Teal, Purple, Gray, Silver, Pink, Blue, Green, Brown, Black, Gold, Indigo

Good luck! http://superbabies.homestead.com/files/goodluck.gif

Best of luck...we're all rooting for you! :)

have a blast and tons of good luck.

Have a wonderful time - and try not to stress out!

Your loyal GC Support Group is behind you 100%!!!

Just wanted to add my support as well, have a wonderful time. Disregard everything you may have heard about specific chapters, or even about sororities in general, and let all the women who invite you into their homes show you their minds, hearts and sisterhoods. Go where it's warm.
Best of luck, can't wait to hear how it goes!

Sending you lots of butterfly kisses in hopes that they leave your belly and fly up to your cheeks for the most beautiful smile ever! Good luck tonight!

so tonight i went to:
gray- this house wasnt bad but it wasnt great either, it definitely has the worst reputation on campus and they are sweet girls but just didnt put on a great rush
yellow- i really liked this house, the girls i talked to were soo sweet, really down to earth, easy to talk to, and really welcoming
green- i liked this house too, the girls were so pretty (but ALL blonde) the first girl was really easy to talk to, but the second was a little harder
orange- i was kind of surprised by this house, last year i loved it and it has a great reputation on campus for being nice but i didnt feel like it was a great match
pink- i LOVED this house, the girls were gorgeous, sweet as can be and instantly made me feel comfortable, i saw the 3 girls that i know and they all waved to me, definitely one of my top houses
brown- i really did not like this house. i had nothing in common with either of the girls i talked to and so we just kind of sat and stared at each other for a while

Sunday is the last 9 houses and after that we go and rank them. I'll keep ya posted!!

a marvelous beginning...
keep the faith and keep on trucking.
we'll see what develops.
lol

Good luck on Sunday!!

Glad it's going well so far!
Good luck on Sunday! :)

Good luck today! :)

Yeah! Another Rush to feed my addiction!!
Best of Luck!!! :D

Hope it went great today.. and, since it's a U of M thread..

Go Blue on beating Notre Dame resoundingly!!!!!

Dee

Hope you are having a wonderful time!! Don't forget to come back and tell us what you thought about your second group of parties.

Tonight we saw the final 9 houses:
Gold- the girls were nice this isn't a place i feel i could call my home. i put it in my bottom 5
Indigo- i only got to talk to two girls here, the first was nice but the second ran out of things to talk about and kept saying "ummm yeah"
Red- i wasn't sure about this house coming in, but i liked it. i am convinced a girl in the house (a junior) hates me, so i wont be too surprised if i get cut
Black- i totally sabataged myself at this one, although i love it, a girl who was rushing me was STARING at my teeth, and im thinking i have something stuck inbetween my teeth or something until she tells me she is pre-dental and she is still staring, so finally i asked her if when she meets girls she really notices their teeth and she says "no not all, why would you think that" but not in a sarcastic way, like she really was perplexed by my question... hmmm i might get cut
Silver- not a great house, not a bad one either, the girls were nice, kind of sporty, but they had one some crazy bright eye makeup
Blue- I LOVED this house, this is the one i would want to call home the girls were sweet and welcoming and gorgeous (maybe a little too gorgeous, but i can get past that) but ill just have to wait to see if they feel the same way!
Teal- these girls scared me. honestly. they were the loudest girls i have ever meet, a little offputting with all their enthusiasm, and were only interested in rushing those girls who were like them
White- this is my legacy house, i didn't love it, but i didn't dislike it either, its in my neutral zone, which is a good thing becuase my mom isn't set on me being here. but the girl who rushed me was in my orientation and we bonded over memories
Purple- i liked this house too, the girls were nice and the first girl who rushed me was actually one of my friends. but i'm not quite sure if i could call it home.

after all the houses we went to the union and ranked our houses. 10 number 1's and then 2,3,4,5,6
1- blue, pink, yellow, black, green, purple, orange, red, white, indigo
2- silver
3- gray
4- gold
5- brown
6- teal

we pick up our invites on wednesday at 6:30. we can go back to up to 10 houses, ill let you know how it goes!

You have to wait until Wednesday? How cruel!! ;)

Well, let me be the first to wish you good luck - especially in blue, pink, yellow, black, green, purple, orange, indigo, and white!!








ETC spelling!

Waiting til Wednesday!
 

Man! This is the only downside to having rush after school has started! I gotta give you credit--even though I know that they spread it out b/c of classes being in session, I don't think I would be able to concentrate on anything BUT rush! Good luck to you--I am keeping my fingers crossed that you get all your first choices!
:D

nothing but good luck to you....
may your true colors show forth....

Wednesday?!?! That's just crazy. I'd have a breakdown by Monday afternoon :) Best of luck pinklady! :)

its only monday afternoon and i am already having a breakdown! do you ever have those days where everything goes wrong? i only got 3 1/2 hours of sleep and had to wake up at 5:00 am for skating practice, my car almost got towed because my parking permit was not on the rear view mirror... apparently it being on the dashboard is grounds for towing and i had to pay them $90 cash to drop my car (a little bit sketchy....), and i tried to make myself grilled cheese with my last 2 slices of bread and totally burned it!! Bad things come in 3's so hopefully i'm done for the day.... YIKES!

i hope your day gets better!

Aww Sweetie, Im so sorry your day hasnt gone too well. I really hope it gets better and youve only got 2 day till you get to go back to the houses :) yaay! hopefully you'll remember lol I dont know if I could if I had to wait 2 days to go back to the houses I think I woud forget alot lol anyways Im blabbing hehe Good Luck for Wed :) I cant wait to hear where youre going back to!

Nichole

Good Luck this week!!!

I'm hoping your day get's better and everything works out for the best!!!

Hey hon! don't worry coz everythign is going to go JUST fine. your day and week definetely WILL get better from here. lots of luck to ya even tho you won't need it!

be happy....sounds like you have used up all your bad karma. the rest of the week has got to be better...just because.

I keep forgetting this is a month long saga. :p

Good Luck!!! I am thinking all these well wishes will counteract any bad karma. :D

Don't they know there are people waiting for results??????:p

Thanks for all the best wishes, my day did a resounding turn-around and everything else went smoothly.

The worst thing about it being so long is that it interfers with school more. I'd rather it take up one week and get behind and be able to catch up the next week. Instead its a progression of falling a little bit more and a little bit more behind until you have tons of stuff to do. (when rush is on school days its at night, starting at 6 or 7 and ending at 10 or 11, but like this week it is thursday, friday, and sunday nights and that cuts into homework and reading time)

Still have all of tuesday to wait and until 6:30 wednesday to get the schedule, parties start on thursday!

:-)
 

I know that everyone is wishing you luck-- but I want to send you some from me too! I can't wait until you let us know which houses you are going back to. It is horrible that they make you wait until Wednesday! I'm sure they already know, so why torture you guys? How terrible!

When you gave us your top ten, were they in random order or actually in your top ten order?

They do decorations for the first set of parties at Michigan, don't they? What were your favorite decorations? Hmmmm, maybe I'm wrong-- I might have heard that U of M does no frills so no decorating... I can't remember, I get all these schools mixed up in my head.

Anyways-- I'm sure you'll love your parties this weekend. Can't wait to get updated!

Decorations are to the nines for first sets at UM! After that its no frills. The night before first sets is always fun coz all the girls are blasting music and singing as we put up decorations.

I'll let Lisa tell you her favorite themes. But when I was an active last year, I redesigned the banners and the entire deco scheme for my house's mixers. but all the themes are funnn!

Re: :-)
 

when i gave my top ten i did put them in order of preference.

As for decorations the houses are definitely decked out to the nines for mixers. Crepe paper streaming down on the walls, ribbons hanging from the ceiling, confetti, girls in matching outfits, you get the idea. I dont want to reveal which color houses had what themes as it would give it away but alpahbetically the houses themes:
A-Chi-O: heaven
A-D-Pi: vegas
A-E-Phi: 70's
A-G-D: new orleans
Alpha Phi: Ski
Chi-O: coca cola
Tri-Delt: dream
DG: safari
D-Phi-E: broadway
Gamma Phi: beach bash
Theta: colors
Kappa: carribean
Pi-Phi: charlies angels
S-D-T: cowboys and indians
Sigma Kappa: camp