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20something's BRUTALLY HONEST Retro Recruitment Thread
Hi there! I'm a GC poster who has decided to anonymously post a retro recruitment thread.
I went to a smaller school in the south with a very competitive recruitment. There are five sororities at my school. Recruitment is deferred until January so you go in knowing a lot of sorority members. I plan to post about all my adventures fall term as well as the actual recruitment week (because frankly, what happens in the fall is as important or even more important than recruitment week). I will be calling the sororities after characters from the immortal television show, One Tree Hill: Nathan Lucas Peyton Haley Brooke I will also be speaking a little bit about the experiences of some of my close friends from freshman year: -20something roommate -20something hallmate -20something floormate -Girls in the dorm across the street LOL. I crack myself up. I will come back later today and post about my overnight visit to my college my senior year. |
OOH good, brutally honest! Should be fun!
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I remember the "brutally honest retro recruitment" story we had last fall was really good. Go Brutal!
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yay, yay!!
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i am excited, i love brooke!! i wonder why =)
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Go for it!!
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My first visit to my college was during a scholarship weekend in the spring semester of my senior year of college (I applied there at the last minute at my mom's insistence, so I never went on the junior year visit). I didn't know what to expect when I went there. I knew very little about Greek life other than pop culture stuff.
When I got there, I was staying with two women. One was a Brooke, and one was a Lucas. My official host was Host Lucas. Host Brooke also had a scholarship prospective to host, which was cool. I immediately hit it off with the other freshman being hosted in the room and I felt like we would be BFFFFFFFFFFFF. I liked the girls I was staying with for the most part. Host Lucas seemed really cool to me especially. We shared the same political views and the same favorite band (rock on!). Host Brooke and Host Lucas were both going through their sorority new member periods. I thought it was cool because even though they were 100% BFFs they joined different sororities. It didn't seem too cliquish to me (HA!!!). They also had cool pledgeship gifts from their big sisters and sorority gear and decorations all over their room, which was cool. However, I couldn't figure out why they joined different ones. Host Lucas made some slightly annoyed reference to the "Host Brooke switching out at the last minute" that I didn't quite understand. The Brooke seemed a bit more standoffish to me than my official host, the Lucas. I met one of the Brookess pledge sisters, who lived two doors down from my hosts. She took me to breakfast one day when my two hosts didn't want to/couldn't go... I told her I didn't drink. Two Doors Down Brooke immediately responded that this school was not a school for people who didn't drink. Anyone who didn't drink would be uncomfortable and probably not get into a sorority. She actually flat out told me I should not choose to go to this college. That made me feel really bad. I decided already right then that Lucas seemed way more cool than Brooke because maybe Brooke was all about drinking. In fact Host Brooke had illegal alcohol in her dorm room (it was banned in dorms at my college) and told me all her strategies for doing that and even demonstrated some. Then a bunch of other girls on the hall (in the bathrooms getting ready for bed, no less) mentioned to me that Two Doors Down who commanded me not to go to this school was a "shacker." I didn't know what this meant. They explained that it meant she always slept in boys' rooms... I guess her boyfriend's?? To this day I don't know if she had a boyfriend at that point or not. It really shocked me (wow, I seem so prudish to me now). One night we were there we went out to some fraternity parties. We went to an off-campus party hosted by "Soccer Frat" and one hosted by "Skinny Awkward Funny Southern Frat." At the Soccer Frat party, my hosts immediately left me and started drinking. I didn't think much of them leaving me because I had other people I knew there. I joined a big group of other scholarship students, most of whom also didn't drink. That made me feel more comfortable, although I got the sense that some of the college students thought we SHOULD be drinking. Whatever. I did meet a few belligerently drunk scholarship students. That really surprised me from my high school experience because I assumed that good students from nice families didn't drink (uh yeah, was I protected, or what??). I ended up meeting a guy from Soccer Frat that really liked me and kept flirting with me. I ended up going back to his fraternity houses with a bunch of other people. I immediately got very uncomfortable because there was a big group of people smoking pot in the group once we got there. I'd never seen that before. I didn't participate, but I didn't comment on it either. I was trying to be cool! I wanted to be cool so bad! I ended up making out with him in his room for a while, until his roommate came back home. When I got back, Host Brooke and Host Lucas were surprised I'd hung out with Soccer Frat guy. They seemed really supportive and raved about what a cool guy he was, though. I'd told them I had an on-again, off-again long distance HS boyfriend... eeeeeeeeeeeep. Looking back on this, I cringe. Not necessarily that I made out - my HS boyfriend definitely "dated around" a bit too - but that I told them this. BAD CALL. The other hosted student had also made out, but with another prospective student. FLASH FORWARD SIX MONTHS!!! Based on my fun experience at the visit (and the fact that I won a scholarship), I decided to go to this university. Based on the other scholarship students I thought it would be OK if I didn't drink. I wasn't totally sure if I would join a sorority. My parents were opposed to it. I was sort of attracted to it because Hosts Brooke and Lucas talked it up so much, but I was worried about Two Doors Down, who'd insisted you couldn't get in if you didn't drink. I ended up requesting to room with the girl who was also hosted by Brooke & Lucas, and I'll now refer to her as 20something Roommate :) A few notes about the fallout from my college visit. I don't know how much the making out thing reflected on me back then. I do think Host Brooke and Host Lucas were extremely nice and welcoming to me on the visit but were not interested in rushing me once I enrolled. They never really spoke to me once I got to school. It quickly became apparent to me that they and their sororities probably had little interest in me, because having hosted me was an obvious "in" if they'd wanted me and these girls seemed to avoid me like the plague. So immediately I had a so-so impression of both sororities, and a borderline negative one about Brooke, because of the drinking and "shacking" from Two Doors Down. For a while if I met a Brooke or Lucas I would say "Oh yeah, I was hosted by your sister Host Brooke or Host Lucas!" Then I LATER found out that a girl who'd stayed with them later in the year - during accepted students day, which was after scholarship weekend - evidently had sex with a Lucas member's boyfriend! ACK! So I still wonder if some people thought I was *that* hosted student. EEP! To top it all off, the Soccer Frat member I made out with was going through a weird time. Evidently, sometime in the spring term after I met him, he was sexually assaulted by his RA (a male). The RA was kicked out of school. I believe the Soccer Frat member eventually dropped out of school. But it was weird because I'd called him when I got to school (which he'd told me to do) and he was distant and seemed unhappy. Whatever! I didn't care too much. I did talk to 20something Roommate about the situation as well as some other freshman, which again, I think was a bad idea. I'll pick up tomorrow with a post about the events of my orientation week!! :) |
Lol wow! I love how all of this adds up to recruitment. Crazy!
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wow! this reads like a teen soap opera script.
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I love this! I think it does an excellent job of demonstrating how vastly different a high school senior and a college student's experiences, expectations can be.
Keep it coming- one of the best I have read! |
anxiously waiting.
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I love this thread... you remind me of me in HS.... totally naive:)
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It's time for.... orientation week!
I moved in with 20something Roommate and things were going great! My ID photo looked good and I was good to go! I started hanging out with a bunch of girls on my hall as well as my roommate, including a girl I'll call 20something Hallmate. I had an RA who was Greek but was serving as a Rho Chi so I didn't know which org she belonged to. I really, really, really liked her right off the bat though. She gave a brief introduction to Greek Life the first night in the dorm and said that she had joined the perfect place for her but a really unexpected place and people had trouble guessing which one it was, but it was the perfect one for her. We went to a bunch of parties during orientation week - basically all the frat guys come back early and throw illegal parties during the evenings of orientation week. One of the big events of orientation at my college is "University Big Brother/Sister" day. You get paired up with someone from your geographic region who takes you out for dinner. I met my University Big Sister when she came to my room during move-in day and chatted with me and my parents. But when I showed up to Big Sister dinner, she wasn't there! I felt really stupid. I later found out that she'd emailed me to ask if I wanted to do anything that night. I never got the email because my computer hadn't been set up yet. I was to find out much later, when I was a University Big Sister, that you're always supposed to show up to the meeting spot anyway and not email your person because they usually don't have email ready yet. :mad: I also found out that my Big Sister was a member of Brooke. Strike Two (or was it Three?) for Brooke! However, another person adopted me during University Big Sister night! My Unofficial Big Sister was definitely not from the same geographical region as me, but she was a badass and quickly became like my FAVORITE upperclassman woman. She had a hilarious and off-the-wall sense of humor and I couldn't stop laughing when I was around her! She was a member of Peyton. I didn't know anything about Peyton from my college visit, which was a mark in their favor. Already on meeting and starting to hang out with my Unofficial Big, I really felt that I would love to be a part of Peyton. I felt that she would love for me to join too! She talked a lot about her sorority activities right off the bat. A big part of what upperclasswomen do during fall term is try to encourage freshmen to rush, and she did a great job of that! I also found I was meeting a lot of Peytons at parties. First off, I should state that I tend to make friends easier with guys. So I had a big group of guy friends that I met during orientation week that I would go around to parties with, along with 20something Roommate. (20something Hallmate was even more naive/conservative than Roommate and I and refused to go to parties.) I quickly became familiar with the fraternities they were looking at and started ranking my favorite places to hang out. The primary places we hung out were: MOR Central Frat - pretty much what it says. A lot of northern guys and southern guys from smaller towns/high schools. Probably bottom-mid tier or top of the bottom and the "coolest" place I was hanging out at that time. Hippie/yuppie Frat - I know this sounds weird, but it was a bunch of pot smokers and really preppy kids from Connecticut. Go figure. Oh yeah, and my RA was dating a brother. Nerdy Campus Leader Frat - This was traditionally considered one of the "bottom" fraternities but had made a lot of leaps in recruiting campus leaders and had grown a lot in recent years. They still had a bit of a complex about being just above just plan Nerdy Frat. As you can probably guess, I wasn't necessarily Ms. Popularity. I wasn't going to the big houses and not even a lot of the mid-tier houses like Soccer Frat. But I didn't care because I really liked my friends. I found that during orientation week I was meeting a lot of Peytons at the houses, especially at MOR Central, which was quickly developing into my favorite place. Most of my guy friends wanted to join there initially too. It was just a cool place that had a variety of guys and still liked to party. The Peytons seemed to be all up in MOR Central! As well as Hippie/yuppie frat, though a weird mix of girls from other groups also hung out there. (I later found out that this was because it was a pot-smoking type place.) At Nerdy Campus Leader Frat, there were more Haleys than Peytons probably, but somewhat of a mix. During orientation week, a guy from MOR Central starting pursuing me. He even sent flowers to my dorm room the day after meeting me! So before too long, we had DTRed and I had an upperclassmen boyfriend! This was considered a big accomplishment and help in rush at my college. He also had a bunch of friends from his class who were Peytons, which was cool. Through him I met a bunch of girls from the dorm across the street, who all wanted to join Peyton. That was cool! 20something Roommate and 20something Hallmate weren't quite as "social" as me, so I was hoping that knowing girls across the street would help me in recruitment.... As an aside, I hadn't started drinking at all yet, so that wasn't an issue for me yet. So that's the important stuff about orientation week! Next I'll make a general post about what happened during fall term/informal recruitment, and the girls I met through the organizations I joined on campus. :) |
I LOVE this!
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This thread is going to be my favorite!
I hope you reveal who you are at the end! <3 |
I'm wondering if this is going to be like my rush experience, where there was a girl from ASA on my hall and I thought she was a totally stuck up bia and then after I pledged she said "I know all you guys thought I was a totally stuck up bia, that was my roomie's fault, I don't blame you!!" and she became one of my good friends.
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I like this one! :)
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More please! I patiently waited over the weekend, but this is more than I can stand. ;)
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Time for another update! OK, this is going to be a big one that includes all my impressions from classes, student organizations, parties, etc., from fall term.
So school got underway and I was doing great! I had been worried about how I would stack up in college since I went to a small, redneck high school, but I was doing great in my classes. I met at least one cool upperclassmen in my classes (actually, most of my classes were full of freshmen since I was getting some intro classes/requirements out of the way). This was a girl in my French class who was a Lucas. We seemed to share a lot of feminist values and always had so much to talk about. I really enjoyed spending time with her and working in groups with her. However, she was a transfer student who'd joined Lucas as a sophomore and was now a junior, so I wasn't sure how much "pull" she might have within Lucas. Another of my classes was Concert Band, and awesomely enough, my University Big Sister, the Peyton, was in that class and in the same instrument group as me! That was really cool. I really liked all the people who were in my instrument group and I was really excited because we were all going on a performance trip abroad over spring break. And hey, it was more time to spend with my Big Peyton! I remember that this class met Monday nights, so sorority members had to get out of chapter a bit early to make it to the class, and sometimes rolled in a few minutes late, and I remember thinking it would just be so cool to be in a sorority at those moments. One of the major student organizations I got involved in was the school dance group. There were sort of two sub-groups to this group, one focused on ballet, and one on jazz/tap/modern. The ballerinas were a bit more diva-ish and were usually the presidents of the group, and also took most of the group's money for their costumes come performance time (this actually led to some drama senior year when I was VP of the group, but that's another story). Two of the lead ballerinas were Peytons, but I didn't really feel a connection with them, unlike the way I felt with most of the other Peytons I met. I noticed these Peytons didn't hang out so much at MOR/Central, because they were hanging out at other places, more like Skinny Awkward Southern Frat. I didn't really think about this too much though. I ended up joining the tap/modern group (tap has always been my favorite) and deciding to just forget about pointe. Now, most of the girls in the jazz/tap/modern group were Haleys. They were people that really reminded me of myself a lot - many from redneck high schools in the south. A few of them dated guys who didn't go to my school but another nearby school, which at the time I thought was kind of lame. Also these Haleys didn't really go to the frat party scene as much, which again I thought was kind of lame. But they were really nice to me. I LOVED especially our modern dance teacher who was a big hippie and really turned me on to some new technique and ways of expression. Also, I joined a local church group, and turns out that pretty much all the Haley girls from the tap/modern dance group went to my church! Plus a few other Haleys from their friend group. Although honestly, one or two of the Haley girls that went to my church group but who didn't dance seemed really awkward to me. But they were always so sweet to me! I also met a Haley girl at church who lived in a nearby town to me (our high schools had played each other in sports), so that was a cool connection to have made. I actually think all the women in my church group at that time were Haleys. Our group was led by the pastor's wife who had a degree in divinity herself and had an awesome sense of humor and a passion for working with college women. A final social organization I joined was a women's leadership group. Lo and behold, there were a lot of Haleys in this group too! In terms of social life, things were going really well. I was pretty much always at MOR/Central, or barring that, whatever fraternity was having a big theme party. I was having fun with my boyfriend, although he always wanted to go "farther" than I wanted to and before long that started to cause problems. He knew I wanted to join Peyton and helped me out by inviting his girl friends (most of whom were Peytons) over to hang out with me and him. Some of the good memories I have of that time were when his fraternity threw a beer pong tournament at one of their off-campus houses. I was still LOVING all the Peyton girls I met at MOR/Central. All of them seemed to be really involved in service & volunteerism but also loved to party and drink (which I still wasn't doing...). I did meet a few Haleys who dated guys from MOR/Central. A bunch of them were seniors and dated senior guys who didn't drink. A lot of those guys didn't even really come to their own fraternity's parties much! I thought that was sort of weird. Another one of the Haley seniors was a bit different, though. She dated a guy from MOR/Central, and at the beer pong tournament they played a round of 56-cup beer pong! I remember being really impressed by this. My MOR/Central boyfriend was a tennis player, so he missed a bunch of weekends for tennis tournaments. In fact he wasn't there most weekends. One weekend when Nerdy Campus Leader Fraternity had their big theme party, I decided to have some drinks. Thus began the first steps down a sometimes inglorious path for me. :( I got really buzzed - not really drunk, I don't think - on the fruity theme party drinks and I was hooked. It was also the first time 20something Roommate drank. We had the best time together that night. I was sure we'd be BFFFFFFFFFFF forever. We'd discussed that we really wanted to join a sorority together no matter what, and we wanted it to be Peyton. She hadn't met quite as many Peytons as me because I was more involved in campus organizations than she was, but we figured people would know we wanted to join together and that might help us. My boyfriend was away at a tournament for Homecoming Weekend, so I informally went with one of our freshmen guy friends to Homecoming at MOR/Central. I got really drunk that weekend and puked on my boyfriend's floor. :( And I'd been hanging out with Peytons right up to that. eeeeeeeeep. I was really embarrassed about that at the time, but probably not as embarrassed about it as I am today. One of the Peytons was really sweet though, and helped me clean up a bit and made sure I got back to my dorm room OK. I was determined that I would keep drinking (I'd finally given in to the "drinking is cool mentality," as you're probably gathering from my post so far), but that I would NEVER PUKE AGAIN (ha). Another thing that happened that I took as a really good omen was that a bunch of Peytons invited me to their suite in a dorm room with some other freshmen, mostly the Girls from the Dorm Across the Street, as well as 20something Roommate and myself. Ostensibly, the meeting was to talk about this service event they were planning, but I quickly realized it was mostly to advertise Peyton. They weren't allowed to do any formal recruiting, but they were allowed to form normal friendships with us, and out came the photo albums of all the cool Peyton events they'd been to. They ordered a pizza and had the freshmen chip in so it wouldn't be a rush violation. I remember feeling like they really wanted me to join Peyton and feeling such a bond with all the freshmen there as well. Coming out of that, one of the Peytons and I organized a day of fasting to benefit OxFam on campus. At the same time, some of the Haleys were recruiting me, but I think it was a little more subtle. Things like the girl from my area offering me a ride home for breaks and them inviting me to join them for ice cream or studying. At the time, because it wasn't an "event" with other freshmen there, I didn't really think that they were recruiting me. In fact I wasn't totally 100% sure how interested Haley was in me, although at the same time I felt almost sure I could get a bid there because I was kind of "cooler" than a lot of them. I don't know if that makes sense. I guess I wanted to be courted by them more - for them to make me feel good about myself and that they wanted me SOOOOOO much like Peyton did. I realize a lot of this is probably sounding really awful and selfish - but I don't, in retrospect, have the best opinion of who I was freshman year of college. I had come from such a redneck high school, been the valedictorian of my high school class, hadn't been that popular, and really wanted to be accepted and popular in college. Gradually, I was more willing to do a lot of things I hadn't been willing to do in high school, or even things I'd looked down on in high school. One of the things I was becoming painfully aware of was that my clothes were not cool enough. In high school I wore MUDD jeans, tops from RAVE/Goody's, and sneakers/casual flat shoes almost every day. I began to see a lot of brands I'd never even heard of that EVERYONE seemed to have. A few rich kids at my high school had worn Columbia jackets, but here at my college, everyone seemed to wear North Face jackets and backpacks. A lot of the girls didn't carry backpacks at all and I quickly became really self-conscious about that, feeling it was almost masculine or something to carry a backpack (I still have a hangup about this, actually). Girls wore heels really frequently and also wore designer jeans - and definitely NOT the retro super-flare jeans that were cool at my high school. I remember being so embarrassed I didn't have a peacoat when winter came. In the fall I wore a sweater jacket, which were all the rage that season, and luckily my mother and I had gotten one before I went off to college. But when it got colder, peacoats appeared, and EVERY girl had one (or a North Face). I had an inexpensive lined corduroy jacket and I had to wear it when it got cold, but I just knew how stupid it looked compared to everyone else. A few more remarks - my guy friends were quickly figuring out where they would be pledging. Most of them initially wanted MOR/Central, but a few of them were receiving calls that they wouldn't be receiving bids there. As things stacked up, it looked like most of my guy friends would be going to Nerdy Campus Leader Frat or Hippie/Yuppie Frat. They were waiting until guys' formal rush week to make their final decisions. A few of my guy friends were still in the running for MOR/Central and were pretty solid they'd be going there. There were also a few friends of mine looking at Violent Drinking Frat and Jock Frat. One of my friends had actually been balled at almost every house due to a vicious but untrue rumor and was pretty much limited to remaining independent or joining Just Plain Nerdy Frat. It was going to be a tough decision for him. My boyfriend and I broke up in November. He claimed that it was for other reasons, but I was pretty sure then and I'm pretty sure now that it was because I wouldn't have sex with him. The weekend after he dumped me, I got drunk and yelled him during a party for having dumped me and called him a jerk, etc. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP. Again, very bad call on my part. So for the weekend that all the frats had their winter formal, I needed a date. (Freshmen guys who were being highly recruited by a particular frat would be invited to their winter formal, and asked to bring a date. If you weren't invited, you could start to rule out that place as giving you a bid, even if they hadn't taken the step to ball you.) 20something Roommate and I went with two of our guy friends who were still in the running for MOR/Central. I remember having a lot of fun that weekend and actually getting to know better some of the senior Haleys who dated the nondrinking senior MOR/Centrals. I actually realized how classy and nice these girls were at that time. The weekend was a bit crazy, though. The guy I went with was the same guy I'd gone to Homecoming with, both times as friends. But during Winter Formal weekend he declared his love for me. It was uncomfortable because I didn't want to start dating someone so fast, and I wasn't sure if I felt as strongly for him as he did for me. I mean, he used the "L" word! I liked him, but I wasn't ready to declare my love for him. Also, he smoked a lot of pot, which made me uncomfortable, although I loved to talk about Marxism with him. I ended up telling him I just wasn't ready. (And made out the next weekend with another guy, which I think sort of broke him..... eeeeeeeeeeeeeeep again.) 20something Roommate also had some drama this weekend, as her winter formal date and her got into an argument midway through the weekend, and by the end of the weekend she ended up meeting/beginning to date an upperclassman from Violent Drinking Frat - who she's now married to, incidentally. But overall in terms of recruitment, winter formal weekend was relatively normal. I guess I should speak a bit about my impressions of all the sororities going into recruitment. Nathan - you'll noticed I've mentioned Nathan almost not at all. That's because I didn't know any of them except for two! Two of them did in fact hang out at and date at MOR/Central. I found them to be nice fun girls, but they drank a lot and I heard they did coke. A funny story, actually, about one of them is that after a break in school she mentioned to me that while going down the interstate (she lived in a neighboring area to me) she'd seen the exit for my small town and thought of me. I was SO WEIRDED OUT because I knew for 100% sure that I'd never told her where I was from. Now I know that she knew this because Nathans run a really intense recruitment and memorize the freshman facebook - which every sorority does to some degree but Nathans are REALLY intense about it. But at the time I was clueless as to how she knew this and thought it was a bit creepy. The only other contact I had at Nathan was that there was a girl from my town who was the current Nathan president and a big person on campus in general. Our grandmothers were friends and my mom had formerly gone on some dates with her uncle waaaaay back in the day. But this girl had actually gone to an all-girls' southern boarding school and we had very little in common in reality. She did fit the stereotype I knew of Nathan, which was wealthy and southern, but that didn't necessarily turn me off because all the girls I met seemed very nice. Lucas - Lucas was still a bit of an unknown to me. I did really like Host Lucas from senior year, but she had basically avoided me once I got to school. Then there was the transfer Lucas in my French class. Other than that, all I really knew about the Lucases was that they tended to be really attractive. I didn't feel very strongly about them, but I liked them probably less than Nathan. Brooke - I had a negative impression of Brooke. Not only had Two Doors Down been a Brooke, my Official University Big (who abandoned me!) been a Brooke, some of the other Brookes I knew seemed really weird. The Brookes were known to recruit a lot of, probably even the majority of, the intercollegiate athletes who went Greek. They even had shirts made about it. This meant that there were some girls I knew from classes and stuff who were Brookes but who just seemed really masculine and butch and not like people I'd get along with. Peyton - I still LOVED Peyton. My University Big was probably one of my best friends at the school, and there were so many other great girls I'd met, who'd been kind to me and helped me the night I'd gotten drunk and at other times. They seemed really involved in service and they LOVED to party. And they hung out at the places I hung out at. Still, there were some that seemed cold to me, like the ballerina Peytons, and who hung out at different houses (well... more popular ones, although I didn't really realize that part at the time). My roommate was set on Peyton also. Toward the end of fall term, my roommate and I had started hanging out with 20something Floormate, who also really wanted Peyton and knew some more Peytons we didn't know, as well as a sophomore girl who was rushing and wanted Peyton. Also, all the Girls From Across the Street wanted Peyton. Haley - I knew SOOOO many Haleys from student organizations. If I'd been really honest with myself, I would have admitted that I knew more Haleys than Peytons. But the Haleys just weren't as cool. They didn't party as much, they didn't have mixers with fraternities (this was a HUGE strike against them in my book), and they had a nerdy reputation. I sometimes heard that they were fat, although I didn't really believe this one since so many of the girls I knew were involved in dance with me and in great shape. But it was the place that fraternity guys would always say, "You don't want to join there." I also didn't feel as courted or loved by Haley as I did by Peyton. But at the same time, I was pretty sure I could get a bid there. 20something Hallmate actually really wanted Haley or nothing. 20something Hallmate, unlike my other friends (Roommate/Floormate/Girls from Across the Street), had not gone to any fraternity parties at all fall term. She had had some major roommate issues and was struggling in her calculus and bio class (she'd thought she would major in bio and took the really hard intro for majors). She also was involved in a student theatre production which had practice 24/7 and prevented her from going out much (although... 20something Floormate was involved in the production as well and still found time to go out, though admittedly not as much as Roommate and I). But the cast and crew of the play was almost all Haleys, so Hallmate gotten to know those girls and wanted to join with them. ETA: I still loved my RA! She was going to be my hall's Rho Chi, which made me feel good because I got along with her so well and I knew she would really help me through anything. To this day I still think this woman was everything an RA should be. I wasn't sure what sorority she was in, though. I thought it would be cool to join her sorority. She was an athlete, so maybe she was a Brooke? But then again, she had said that no one expected her to join the sorority she ultimately joined, so maybe it wasn't Brooke. I should add that there were some formal recruitment events held by Panhellenic - a Meet the Greeks, an Orientation, etc., but none of those were REALLY that significant as student orgs/frat parties, stuff like that in getting you ahead in recruitment. I don't even remember that much about them. So that's how things stood before I headed home for Christmas break and formal silence! Whew! That's all for now. Next I'll make a brief post about Christmas break, or maybe I'll include the first night of recruitment in there as well to flesh it out a bit. |
Wow, great read!!!
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Lordy, I think I love you! :)
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So much fun! I am really enjoying the read. I can't wait for the next chapter.
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More, please
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Wow, 20Something. You did a complete 360!
So glad you're back!:D |
You are fantastic.
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I totally agree with you and understand your intent with your thread. I just love it because it is so honest and brings back so many feelings I remember having during my freshman year. You have managed to transport all of us back in time...
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Also, it's like reading a good short story - which makes my workday go by quicker - SO POST AN UPDATE :D
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Ha, yeah, 180 for sure.
OK, back to business. I think I'm going to combine Christmas break + first night of recruitment. So I finished first term freshman year with a 3.924 GPA. I was thrilled because I knew that would be good for recruitment, and I was nowhere near the cutoff that prevented you from rushing. Over Christmas, my mom and I went out and bought outfits for recruitment. My dad was kind of opposed to me pledging at that point and said I would have to pay my dues myself (he later reneged on this and loved my sorority and said it was a really good decision for me to join). Also, a friend came to visit. 20something Roommate's winter formal date, one of our close guy friends who wanted to pledge MOR/Central, came to visit me. He lived far away but was in my state for the holidays. We went to see Ali, the Will Smith movie, and he spent the night at my place. I realized that although my roommate had been interested in him, we had a lot more chemistry than she and he ever did. Nothing happened at that visit but I was beginning to get really interested in him. It was a bit awkward though, and I realized that at the time, because my ex-boyfriend (the 2-month MOR/Central boyfriend who dumped me for not having sex with him) went to his high school and was pretty much his "in" at MOR/Central. So I go back a few days early for recruitment so I can attend the final recruitment orientation. It was *so cold* that week and snowing! eep. I remember I went to a local restaurant the night recruitment started with a bunch of the Girls from Across the Street. We talked more openly together than we ever had before about how we all desperately wanted to join Peyton. I felt so warm and fuzzy and had a strong bond with them. One of them, though, did insist that she wanted to join Haley or nothing and we thought that was so weird. My roommate and I had made a secret pact to join together no matter what. We knew that 20something Hallmate would probably not get Peyton as she had not been to many parties at all first term. We also knew that 20something Floormate was probably less likely than us to get Peyton. So we decided that if we got Peyton and they didn't, we would join. If one of the roommates got cut from Peyton, we would both go Haley. The plot thickens..... BRB.... ETA: Actually, I won't BRB because I have some business to attend to that I just got a phone call about. So I'll post about Night 1 tomorrow. |
I'm getting the feeling that you're not going to join Peyton. In fact, I think you're going to join a house you hadn't previously considered AT ALL--a house that has yet to even hit your radar.
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