Rush Thread Addicts' Support Group
 

Announcing the official rush thread addicts' support group thread ;)

Just say whatever is on your mind...

All are welcome - GLO members, PNMs, future PNMs, interested onlookers, everyone.

I'll start:

Hi, I'm aephi alum and I'm a rush-thread-aholic...

Best of luck to everyone, on both sides.

Carnation was mean :p

You know you're a rush thread addict when the entire Northeast loses power and your first thought is "no rush threads!"

i am smiley21 and i am a rush thread addict.
i hate the feeling of anticipation. i used to like it but i want it to go away. i cant take it anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm AZpinkkittie, and I'm a rush thread addict. I like to live vicariously through other peoples rush thread's until my own rush starts. And the waiting for my rush is making my hair gray.

hi my name is Christia, and I am an addict! I want to read about people rushed until mine happens (next fall!!!)


Pass me the coffee please.

I am AXOMarq (aka Mary)

I am a rush-thread-aholic

I am packing up my room to move into my new apartment (tomorrow) and every 30 minutes, I've been down at my computer to see if there are any new developments. Ahhh! Help!!!!!!!!!!

Hi! I'm PreppyGirl and I'm a rush thread addict...

* While I'm at work, I refresh my GC screen at least every 1-2 minutes to see if there have been any developments...

* When I get home, the first thing that I do is check my email and GC to see if anything happened during my commute (which is about 5 minutes-- maybe less)

* I stay up WAY past my bedtime checking updates

* First thing I do in the am-- check my email... second thing-- check GC

I just discovered GC this summer... all I can say is that it will lead to some serious procrastination this school year. Forget Snood! Forget Instant Messenger! I've got GC to help me avoid doing work now! :)

HI my name is Sarah- (Hi sarah)
I am a GC Rush threadaholic.
(Tears up) at first, it was little things- oh a new girl- going through rush- is there an AGD chapter there? Do they like them?
But it slowly got worse...
what other chapters are there? How many rounds? How competitive? What is house total? Quota? Who all made quota?
I hit rock bottom two nights ago when I had to go into the chat room to bide my time waiting to find out what Blazercheer went. I stayed online for three hours to find out- and could have been productive at work instead, but chose GC.
I am doing a little better, even though there is a current thread about my school- I guess since I am alum I can deal with it.
I have been doing better-
I check once every 30 minutes instead of once a minute- I even went all last night with out checking once- of course I was AT rush, so maybe that was why.
Anyway, I am now doing pretty good- I am excited about threads at schools that don't even have AGD, and I am so happy when a PNM finds a home that she loves, and honestly I can say no matter the letter- we're all greek together...
OH WHO AM I KIDDING- I AM AN ADDICT- MORE RUSHEES POST NO MATTER WHERE.... god have mercy on my soul!

hi i'm megan and i'm a rush thread addict.

i'm having my wisdom teeth pulled on tuesday and my first thought when i realized it was "am i going to miss any bid days???"

i was late for work last week because i was checking blazercheer's rush thread on the off chane carnation actually posted some details.

i check the rush forum at least 5 times a day, usually more, just to see if there are mew developments.

LMAO! LOL :D You are too funny!

Hi My name is Melanie and I'm a rush addict!
I first started out sorta being only interested in the pnm on here who are rushing at schools w/ DG. Hell, now I want to know where everyone goes! LOL
My FIRST anniversary is August 17 and I know I am going to miss so many rush stuff! LOL But of course I am looking forward to the traveling I am going to be doing with my Hubby! Not looking forward to ten million emails in my inbox!
It just can't happen quick enough!

Re: Rush Thread Addicts' Support Group
 

Hi, I'm Christin and I'm a returning recruitment thread addict. I've always loved recruitment, or rush as it was called in the olden days :) My favorite thing is the PNMs journey through her recruitment, and details are wonderful. I'll be obsessive next week with all of the Kentucky schools in the heat of recruitment (translation, if you have a KY school connection, PLEASE POST!!! I teared up when I learned that BlazerCheer was finally home.

You know you are a recruitment thread addict when the entire Northeast loses power and my first thought is "Where are the GC servers located?"

Hi my name is Laura and i am rush thread junkie!

At first it started to be a once a day occurance then it builded as the craving became stronger.

I tried to break the vicious cycle but carnation gave a little more to read and i took the bait and got hooked. No i am coming off my adrenlin rish for this thread and hoping to enter rehab!

Hey... It's PreppyGirl again. I just wanted to let all the other recruitment thread addicts know that there is hope-- today I sat in front of a computer from 1:30 until 4:30 without checking GC once! Baby steps...

Actually though, I have a question about the "withdrawl" following recruitment. What do you do when there aren't any recruitment threads?? Re-read the old ones?? I don't know if I'll be able to handle a few months with out rush threads when I can barely go a few hours!!

Well, there are plenty of schools who don't start recruitment until September. Then, there's IU and Purdue who are doing the November/January split. THEN there's all the deferred recruitment schools. Toss in a few COBers throughout the year, the "I can't wait for all of the recruitment threads next fall" threads, and if necessary the threads way way back at the back end of the Rush Forum, and you'll be fine.

If not, we always have this thread to keep us going :D

Christin
(yes, I am serious)

I too am a recruitment thread-aholic. It started out last year during the fall and progressively through the summer it has gotten worse. Even during my summer school computer class, which is 5 hours in front of a computer, I check GC at least once an hour just to see if anything has been changed or updated.

I don't know how I am going to stand it. I think I will have to shut off the computer for a week just to get a huge dose all at once. Imagine that high?!:cool:

Hello I'm ADPiUCF, and I am a Recruitment Thread Addict!

My addiction began this summer, as I began to meet PNM's on GC, to hear their stories, and answer their recruitment questions. I feel like I have come to know them all, and want to call them my Panhellenic Sisters, so as you can see, I am on pins and needles, feeling like an anxious parent, wanting to know and experience through their eyes all that is of recruitment at their university, and their jubilation at receiving their long-awaited bids!

Oh I can't wait to see what sororities will welcome our GC PNM's as their own! I must admit, every few minutes, I like to check out the rush forum and see if there is any "breaking news"-- Is there a Recruitment "Patch" like nicotrol that will break me of this horrid addiction?!

My name is Crystal and I am a rush thread addict.

I have read Corrina's thread six times.

I have teared up at several, including texas*princess's, chloe173's, and TaraHopeful's rush threads. I was heartbroken when a few girls didn't get a bid.

My rush thread is more than 6 pages long. Rush started today. 'Nuff said.

Hi, my name is Kelly and well.... I am a recruitment thread addict.

Everytime I check the Rush forum, I have to click through every one of the threads just to make sure I didn't miss an update. There are so many that rotate through the listing that I'm worried I'll somehow miss someone's thread. I figure I can check the "Who's Rushing in the Fall?" thread to make sure I get all of the people who are in green. But then I worry that I'll click on the thread only to see someone's named listed in their new sorority colors before I had a chance to read the thread.

For the first three weeks of September, I will be on a trip through Europe. Of course, I'm concerned that I will miss most of the September recruitment action. I've been wondering if there's a way I can check GC from an internet cafe in Poland without having to spend a lot of Zloty (ie $$$) to use the computers.

.....Kelly :)

Hi, my name is Susan and I am a rush thread addict.

I am MISTRESS of the Who's rushing in the fall??? thread, and proud of it!! I diligently search through the rush forum at least once a day, reading every thread to see if any new PNMs have revealed themselves in the depths of an obscure thread. I track down rush schedules. Every evening I get to the point where I can't wait any longer and I have the highlight the names of the PNMs for the next day in green! I probably edit that thread 6 times a day. I subscribe to EVERY rush thread that's starting in the next week or so.

In short, I think I am probably one of the most hopelessly addicted rush thread addicts, ever!

Hi, my name is Andrea, (Hi, Andrea!) and I'm more than just a rush-thread-aholic, I'm a recruitment-aholic.

It started out innocently enough. My first formal recruitment was fun, and COBs kept me sustained through the off-season. I became my chapter's recruitment chair and ran my office from Italy for a semester. I really felt a letdown when I had to turn it over, but I contented myself with chairing a party committee instead.

Then last year I was browsing through old threads and came across JAM's daughter's thread. I got to live vicariously through her daughter, and the thrill came back again. The suspense, the not knowing, the waiting, the nail-biting... I read every rush thread on GC.

I was supposed to go help the local Kappa chapter with their recruitment last year, but they called back and said that they didn't need me. The letdown was terrible. I actually cried.

And then CurlyGirly rushed. There was a Kappa chapter there, and it was in the running. I went to visit my big sis the weekend of her bid day and was distracted all weekend. When my Big asked what was the matter, I said, "I'm wondering whether CurlyGirly went Kappa." She said, "KKC, you need help." I shrugged it off.

I shrieked in the middle of work when I read on my computer screen that CurlyGirly had indeed gone Kappa.

I cried when SherbertLemons got CurlyGirly as her big sister.

I cried when BlazerCheer dropped out of rush the first time around and again (happy tears) when Ballerina went ChiO, and this year I searched the internet for VSU bid day pictures, even though I didn't know what either Carnation Twin looked like.

I called ImsohappythatIama up and had her sing rush songs to me.

I obsessively check all recruitment threads several times each hour.

I even want to go do work week with my local Kappa chapter.

I don't know what I'm going to do when I graduate.

*shakes*

I need help. Is there a 12-step program for this?

you're sooo SWEET!!!
 

WOW!!! I can't even BELIEVE that my name is posted on this thread... in reference to my thread last year! I can't believe it's been so long!

Anyway... I'm so flattered that you were wondering whether or not I went Kappa!--- and that you even admitted it to one of your sisters. I think it's sooo cute that you were thinking about me and Kappa.... even though I had a 1/15 "chance" of going there! haha

Recruitment/Spirit Week time is here and I'm kinda upset. I'm already in Gainesville (UF), but I'm not participating in recruitment. I'm an RA this semester, and Panhellenic rules state that I can't be at the house until Bid Day because it's a conflict of interest. I have access to a bunch of female freshmen on my floor... and I can't let them know I'm in Kappa until Bid Day. <sigh> So saaad.

I'm reading all the recruitment emails through the listserv, and feeling SOOOO left out. I guess it'll just make Bid Day THAT much sweeter... I'm really looking forward to finally seeing my sisters!!!

KappaKittyCat... thanks for thinking of me!! And trust me, I'm really looking forward to reading rush threads (especially UF threads) this year!!!!

I may also be a recruitment-thread-aholic...and a rushaholic in general. I'm in the AXiD house right now, ending up work week, and yet I'm still on here checking the rush threads and seeing what's going on.
I'm such a rushaholic that I'm here helping my chapter rush this year, even though I'm studying abroad in the fall and technically don't have to be here at all. But how could I resist?!?!
I'm so cheery for rush, I'm the Spirit Committee co-chair for Work Week. I've been having a blast and there are only 2 more days until rush starts!!!

CurlyGirly, congrats on making RA! It's unfortunate that Panhellenic won't let you participate in rush, but you'll have a sweet time running to your chapter with your Rho Gammas (or Gamma Chis, or Sigma Rho Chis, or Pi Chis, or whatever the heck y'all call them) and your new members. Have a ball!

It's good to see you back on GC. :D

My name is Martha, and I am also a GC/Rush Thread addict. I can relate to all of your posts. I also was very excited for CurlyGirly and Sherbert Lemons. I read rush threads like they are going out of style. Greek Life is so cool - how do others live without it? Kappa and being Greek has been so wonderful that I want to share with the whole world!! It's great to see other young women on that same voyage.

you know you are addicted when you celebrate the school's blocking device failing so you can get greek chat. i admit it. on blazer cheer's big day, i went looking and i found her.

I am new to GreekChat this year. And I am seriously becoming a Rush Thread Addict. :eek: I am going on vacation starting tomorrow. And all I can think about is that this the absolute worst week to be away from my daily dose of GC. ;)

Hi, my name is Honey, and I'm addicted to Rush Threads.

I stumbled on them last year in mid-September, and have been salivating at the thought of this fall's rush. I have talked pnms into registering with GreekChat. I have considered posting posters for GreekChat on supermarket bulletin boards. I have promoted GreekChat on other internet message boards.

I need a sweet tea and a hanky....

My pal AXOALUM turned me on to GC a little over a year ago, and I was hooked from the first post I read on the RUSH forum. I am a rush-aholic, and a recruitment thread-aholic.

I was all things recruitment when I was active, and then became a recruitment advisor for several years. I am no longer an advisor, but still call and harass the new recruitment and chapter advisors because I must know what is happening regarding recruitment. I can't stop because I am such an addict. I think they still love me and understand that it is a strange need. They feed my addiction.

I am so addicted, I am going to help my graduate school out in January in a panhellenic capacity since they don't have my chapter on campus.

I love bid matching by hand and seeing girls find their homes. I love to read these threads and see women find a place in all of our wonderful organizations. I love to see the Greek system grow everyday, new women in a long long line of sorority women. Our greek legacy continues and I am addicted to it.

My dh works in an office in our basement, which is where the computers are located. I cuss him all day for being down there, and the minute he leaves, I run down to check the rush forum.

I can't wait for my daughters to (hopefully) go through rush and join a sorority.

I stay up all night to get rush thread updates. Please don't leave me (all of us) hanging, and wondering what happened - feed our frenzy!

I am hopeless. I am an addict. Please continue to give me my fixes!

I'm an addict :D

Oh, thank goodness for this thread! :)

Hi - I'm TriSigma4Life, and *deep breath* I am a Rush Thread Addict.

I transferred back home to our community college this year, and am seriously missing my Sigma sisters like crazy. This would have been my first year on the other side of recruitment, and am really disappointed that I won't be able to see that side. Hopefully I'll be transfering again after this year, and am looking at another school that has a Sigma chapter. I've talked to a few girls from that chapter and they seem like great girls, so hopefully one of these days I'll actually be able to be on the recruiting side.

At least I can hear all of the stories from the PNMs on this site, and that feeds my addiction. :D

Oh yeah, I too obsessively check this forum several times a day to see what's been updated. During BlazerCheer's rush, I'm surprised my refresh button just didn't stop working on me! ;)

While I completely agree with your entire post, this sentence, Yes, Ladies, this sentence is what separates the girls from the women: "I love bid matching by hand..."!!!!

If crack addicts knew the rush that comes from getting to yell (ever-so-ladylike) "Match!", there would be no drug problem in the US - everyone, however, would be greeks!!

Question for you addicts who are already sisters--- ROLL CALL! Where did you pref?

Me: ADPi and ZTA

hmm...
 

I pref'd at Delta Gamma, Gamma Phi Beta and Kappa Delta. :D

Amen! Sing it loud and sing it proud, my sister! Oh, there's nothing else like it in the world. One word, so much power, so much glory.

New info for addicts over on the UGa thread!:D

this is a riot! ilovemyglo, i had to read your post to my friends because it was hilarious! i am visiting my friends for the weekend and i have to check gc. they are laughing at me and told me that they are going to send me away for desensitization.....lol...and i said, ok, at the end of sept!

AMEN!!!



I preffed ADPi & KKG.

Shout it from the mountaintops--MATCH!

I was a happy COBer, so I guess I really did Pref AOII!

Christin

The only thing better than yelling "Match!" is yelling (in a ladylike manner of course) is "Match...Quota!" :D

I preffed Alpha Gam and Alpha Phi.

Well, greeklawgirl, I do believe you are right. I just hope they heard an awful lot of "Match...Quota" at WKU (I can't stand the waiting!)