Love your Story! We didn't get presents at my state college---:(

But, back to tanning issues, I am not sure the girls these days understand what we did to have a tan on at least our top half before formal. Where we wore our leftover prom dresses. Gunne Sax,, etc. I was telling someone the other day what it was like to lay out with the oil trying to catch some not so strong midwestern sun on a sunny day in April. 70 degrees was worth trying for. You had SO few chances....I actually had a tanning lamp - which was a high voltage light with tanning bulb....just made us kinda red but it was a precurser to those tanning beds! And the tanning products were horrid. By the time summer hit, it was out the door with the oil and blankets - plan on 3 hours for a good afternoon...

I can't WAIT to hear the end!!!!

I think I saw a clue in one of her posts! It's a great story. I went through rush in the early 80s, but a lot of these types of things were the same. Theme day was over the top. During my rush, everyone wore embroidered Mexican dresses.

michelle

Wow! How do you choose when you have 3 pref parties like that?

I put the lemon juice in my hair before laying out. It was suppose to help bleach your hair and oh how I really wanted to be a blond. I never did achieve that look. Was always a brunette, but looked like a brunette who put lemon juice on her hair and laid out in the sun.

I went to a state college too. We were not allowed to take anything out of the house during rush, so we received no gifts on preference night. I went through rush in fall of '71.

DaffyKD

Please continue. I would like to know where you ended up at.

*waits anxiously*

These stories are great!

This is a really good rush story and I cant wait to hear more!

Pref Night Continued
The parties are over and we walk silently back to the activity center. We are required to remain silent from the time we leave the last party until we fill out our bid cards and leave the activity center. I see Lisa and Tina on opposite ends of the room. Neither of them looks particularly happy and they both complete their cards quickly and leave. I really want to talk to them! Most of all I really want to talk to my mom and dad. But tonight the decision is all mine, and I feel like I am making the first adult decision of my life.

My parents had been very surprised when I called them and asked them if I could rush. Like many who were familiar with Greek life only from the things others said to them about it while they were in college, they thought sororities were elitist organizations. Many years later, my mother said she had worried a lot about my decision to rush, because I had always been a girl who was friendly with many people and traveled fluidly amongst cliques as opposed to being in one particular group. She and my father were concerned that being with one particular group would change the way I viewed the world and turn me into a much more socially cautious person.

But who am I really? Do I belong in the sorority with so many people I know who are from similar backgrounds? Everything would be much easier that way? Do I want the sorority where I know no one yet everyone is so impressed I am still in the running? Or do I pick the sorority where I know quite a few people but there are plenty of others I don’t know? What about GPAs? What about the physical houses? What about their social life and what the fraternities think of them? (Yeah, I know, I’m eighteen. So shoot me!)

I’m really agonizing here. I’m certain I could be happy in any of my choices. My RC is no help at all. She just tells me to pick whatever feels right. But what if they all feel right? I seriously consider doing eenie meenie minee moe. And then, like a lightening bolt it hits me. I know who my number one choice should be. I should go to the place that feels like home. Where they already know me and appreciate me for who I am and not who I possibly could be. Where I won’t feel like I am always trying to impress people or live up to some sort of ideal about what a member of that chapter is like. There was only one place where I truly felt this. I click my ruby red platform shoes and fill out my card...........

I logged on just to check your recruitment story- thanks for the post :) Now I'm eagerly awaiting to see where you end up.

“You have always been a Donna. I hope you will make it official tonight.” I burst into tears (and I had been doing so well here!) because I knew exactly what she meant.

I think that she picks Donna!!

Good call, puglover! My bid card reads:

1)Donna
2)Jackie
3)Fez

I am so relieved as I turn it in and walk back to the dorm. It’s over and what will be will be.

Every girl on my floor who has rushed is gathered in the lounge at the end of the hall, eating pizza and chatting away. It was really a sight to behold, all these girls still in full makeup and done hair and wearing their jammies. Since I seem to be the last one to return, I just take off my shoes and head straight to the party.

Lisa is sitting in a corner, quietly talking to another girl. She is definitely not her bubbly self. She pulls me to the side and tells me she only received two invites tonight, to Eric and Laurie. She really wants Eric and considered suiciding, but after talking to her mother the night before, she decided to rank them one and two. They had discussed all the possible scenarios and her mother urged her to accept any bid she was given and work to make the sorority a better place. But I am pretty certain they assumed she would still get her remaining first choice.

Just as I was about to tell her about my evening, Tina came booming over, full of praise for the Hydes. Huh? Yes, the only party Tina was invited to was at Hyde and now they had miraculously been transformed into the BEST house on campus! Somehow in all the pizza party craziness, I manage to get out of telling the girls I had three parties, one of which was Fez. I do tell them Donna was my first choice. Lisa gives me a sly smile and says, “I told you so.” Suddenly I am terrified that I will open my envelope tomorrow and see Fez for my bid. It’s bad enough that we aren’t going to end up as sisters, but I am sure it will kill Lisa if I end up the only Fez. Tina, well, I’ve really started to see her true colors. And I might enjoy watching her twist in the wind if she saw me in a Fez bid day shirt.

I need to get away from the computer, but I want to know the ending- and where your friends end up! Lovin' this story!

.... oh my as I'm reading your " in your jammies" line, it so took me back. My rush group went out to pizza, then back to the dorm where we all stayed. Within 10 minutes of being back there was a " jammie fest" in the hallway. Everyone talking about where they went and their choices....

Isn't it amazing how choices do change, I'm excited to hear where you ended up! This has been a great story and has certainly taken me back. Thank you so very much-- this thread has had me logging on daily for what comes next......:)