Originally Posted by BraveMaroon
(Post 1977422)
Odds and Ends/Happily Ever After
Rushee McGee became a sister that fall - and though not every day was rainbows, pedicures and unicorns pooping cotton candy, Rushee had the experience of a lifetime. She made friends, laughed, cried, raged, got sick, got well, fell in love and and got her heart broken all under the roof of that house. She studied and got into her major. She partied and got into trouble (not legal or pregnant - just, you know, drunk). She fought with her sisters, she loved her sisters. She confided in them. They confided in her. Some days, she wondered what she had been thinking. Some days she wondered if things would have been different at Pictionary. Some days (not often) she thought of taking off her pin and walking out.
But most of the time, Rushee realized that what she had was special, insane and great.
In case you're wondering (and I know I would be), I suspect I would have found equal happiness at Pictionary - aka Alpha Gamma Delta. The slight edge that Sigma Kappa had was that Rushee wasn't a touchy feely girl, and prefs made her feel a little squicky. At Sigma Kappa her host read her a little better, and that was that. The matching food at AGD, for what it's worth were green grapes, buff cheesecake and red strawberries. It was adorable. Seriously.
Some years after graduation, I met a UGA AGD at Weight Watchers (eh, it happens to the best of us) and found out that she was a year ahead of me. We were thisclose to having been sisters. Of course, she had preffed at SK, too, so, you never know.
Finally, Scrabble, where I was a legacy, is Kappa Alpha Theta. I was paired up with their President in a project for school my Senior year, and found her to be a great girl - and I did finally get the house tour there when I met her to work on our material.
Today, many of my closest girlfriends were Greek (GPhiB, TriSig and so on)at their schools, and what we have decided is this:
Every house has partiers. Every house has studiers. Every house has girls who don't miss a Bible Study, and girls who don't set foot inside a place of worship for fear of lightning striking it. In your house, there are going to be girls you don't like, and girls you love. Every house has girls who own the entire Clinique (or in 2010 parlance, MAC or Sephora) line of products, and girls who consider Burt's Bees makeup. Some girls will date all the time, some will have to borrow other sisters' male friends every year for formal. Some girls will do things you don't agree with, and you'll either confront it or let it go. But go into it with an open mind, and give it a shot. Because, even if sometimes I can't believe I joined a sorority, there's nothing in this world that can compare.
Good luck!
Rushee "BraveMaroon" McGee
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