RUSH 2010--- LSU
 

We start the Ice Water round tomorrow and I'm so excited, I really hope that I find a good fit in a sorority. I'm going shopping with my Gamma Chi! I really like her, she's so peppy, it's inspiring. So, I wanted to tell everyone how things are going this rush week and discuss all of my experiences. This is just an opening post for that! I love my dress for tomorrow, i have these adorable flats that match my A-line Nine West dress PERFECTLY. They were such a lucky find.

I don't have recs for two of the sororities, so I'm not expecting to get past Ice Water for them, but hey, you never know! I'm going to my three of my hopefuls and my legacy, "silver", tomorrow, so I'm wearing the really cute dress.

Last words of wisdom anyone?

Good Luck!

Be yourself...ignore tent talk and decide for yourself which is the right chapter for you! Have fun! Geaux Tigers!!!

Thanks guys!

Can't wait for football season! Geaux Tigers!

Always do! I'm not one to close off an opportunity for greatness ;)

OK, God smiled upon me today! I'm having a GREAT hair, skin, etc. day! I'm so excited and nervous though, I feel sick... My Gamma Chi just told me to "breathe, and the girls in the houses are just as nervous..." I guess that makes sense, but I'm so glad I look good today. haha. (at the risk of sounding pompous)

Let y'all know how it goes! hopefully I wont be one of the 120 or so that have to be "released" :(

ha ha. i think we have all had days when we were thankful that everything seemed to click and our hair cooperated-good for you!!

Don't get hung up on numbers you may have heard. The only way girls would HAVE to be released is if everyone rushing liked the exact same sororities and ranked them exactly the same which is pretty much improbable. If 900 girls start rushing, 900 girls can end with bids. That's the magic of quota.

Thank you for letting me know! Nice confidence booster. Day 2 is about to begin! Let y'all know how it goes!

I'm wondering what you can do to compensate at parties at houses where you don't have recs. Obviously, you want people to remember you and get to know you at every house, but perhaps in those few that you don't have a rec for, try to talk about some stuff that really lets people understand who you are as a person and how others perceive you.

For example, let's say you voluntarily tutored fellow students in Spanish, after school with one of the teachers and a few other students. Your teacher was very impressed because the kids you directly tutored raised their test scores an average of an entire letter grade.

There's a way to tell such a story so that it doesn't sound like bragging. There is nothing wrong with talking about something like that, because it shows that you work well with others, can work under authority, on a team, and take the lead when necessary. Essentially, share a true story that someone writing a rec might share.

Good luck, MollyM!

It's so fun being on campus during LSU Sorority Recruitment. I can completely feel the energy in the air despite running Freshman Orientation all day for those students registering last minute.

My cohort member is one of the new GAs for Greek Affairs, and frankly, I'm a little jealous she gets to manage recruitment. :P

GEAUX TIGERS! Keep us all posted!

Lucky girl! haha. I bet its fun to manage all of us, and yea I'm still so excited waiting to see how things turn out. =)
Today was the last day for Ice Water, I think it turned out really well. My legacy was the one that I was actually the happiest with, but the "green" house was a close second. I rated all the houses I went to by numbers, and that one was a 9/10! I just felt so at home in both of those houses! In my second to last house, I'll call it "purple", the girls I talked to and I had the longest conversation about food because we were all starving! lol But, hey, there were no awkward points!

My top houses were:
Silver 10/10
Green 9/10
Burgandy 8/10
Blue 8/10
Pink 7/10
Purple 7/10
White 7/10

And my "alternates" or bottom three:
Red 6/10
Baby Blue 6/10
Yellow 3/10

Yellow has such a low score because that was the only house where I was just really uncomfortable. It's really funny because I was looking forward to that house, maybe it was just the girls I talked to. My roommate loved Yellow. I think I know who my Gamma Chi is in! I was talking to a girl at White about what her favorite social was, and she talked about their christmas party, and I remember my Gamma Chi talked about the exact same kind of christmas party! cowinkidink? Maybe, maybe not. I really enjoyed my conversations with most of the girls at the other houses, and the ones that lower marks I didn't click with as well, or had an awkward moment or two. I loved all the songs and had to resist singing along! I know they are going to be stuck in my head forever!

Thanks for all the well-wishing girls! I can't wait until bid day! I'm so psyched!

molly, you might be right about your gamma chi but i have heard of gamma chis on certain campuses who purposely learned one song from every sorority on campus and would sing or hum them just to keep the pnms guessing! all part of the fun!

good luck tomorrow!

I was a rho chi my senior year and we learned songs, symbols, etc to throw everyone off. We also had friends in most all houses so we chatted with actives while we were in the house during parties. Drove the PNMs nuts.

I loved being on Pi Chi (name for Panhellenic Council officer at my institution, haha). We had each chapter make trinkets and clipboards for our Rho Gammas then everyone rotated them around throughout the week. I think it helped throw everyone off.

Way to go, MollyM! You've finished the first round. It may get more difficult to keep an open mind as the week goes on, but resist the pressure to make snap judgments. :) All of our chapters at LSU are special and great in their own ways, so I hope that all ends well!

I can't wait to hear more!! Good luck with the rest of your recruitment!

mollym, sounds like you're having a great time. My daughter went through Recruitment at LSU last fall, so I know how stressful this week can be. Sounds like you have a good attitude, and that will serve you well as the week progresses.

My daughter went through with no preconceived notions about any particular sororities. She was not a legacy, so it was all totally up in the air. She LOVES the sorority she ended up with, so things really do happen for a reason. I must say, she's enjoying being on this side of Recruitment a lot better than being a PNM.;)

Best of luck to you this week.:D

OK so I got invited back to Silver, Pink and Yellow. I'm really excited about Silver and Pink, and I'm going to give Yellow another chance, apparently they liked me! haha My favorite philanthropy is Silvers! Pink wasn't my favorite, my roommate and I kind of want to switch because she got Green and loved Pink. But we actually both got invited back to Silver and Yellow.
I'm more nervous now because I only have three and I could lose them this round! Is three a good number for LSU? AH sooooo stressful! At least I have until 6 for my first party. The other two are tomorrow.

Thanks again for all the support guys and wish me luck tonight!

Just keep positive and enjoy this time! Kind of cool to go back to Yellow they obviously like you, so it will be good to see them again! Best wishes to you!

I've been hearing great things about Yellow's Philanthropy party, and I'm looking forward to both my parties tomorrow. Silver was AMAZING, I talked with three different girls and got along great with them all. Their video made me laugh and tear up a bit. The girl that I was talking to and I were actually whispering throughout it about all of the different events and people in the pictures. I hope tomorrow goes just as well. =)

Thanks to all of you that are being so nice!

fingers crossed for you mollym!

Wishing you the best today!

No word from mollym as to how her week ended?

Has anyone heard the final numbers for the LSU chapters?
GEAUX TIGERS!!!

Phi Mu posted on facebook they "welcomed 84 new Phis"...not sure what quota was...