I loved your story!
i'll share a little of mine, of what i remember
I went through formal rush as a sophmore. We have a smaller greek system on campus so the Sors are:
Sigma Sigma Sigma
Alpha Xi Dleta
Zeta Tau Alpha
Phi Mu
Gamma Phi Beta
I wasn't sure if i was going to rush, because my freshman year I had been hanging out with a bunch of anti greek kids, but i moved to a different dorm and there were a bunch of AXiD's on my floor and a tri sigma. I got to know all of those ladies and decided my preconcieved ideas of sors & frats were all wrong.
So sophmore year comes along and My roomate was a GPhiB legacy so she was going to rush, and the girl next door to us as well (they were really good friends since they met during freshman orientation) So i went to info night, and decided i was going to just do it.
Since not all the Sors' have houses on campus, we have rush in a different place. So the first night after all the parties i was pretty confused. I had jumped into this blind, not knowing much on each chapter or anything.That night we had grade cuts--and everything got messed up. SOme cut for grades some cut just to cut and all the sors had to get back togethter and re-do their grade cuts. So we found out the next morning before our parties. I missed the next day, so i think that might have made a difference.
The next day was ok, tri sigma didn't impress me with their skit so i cut them first- i didn't feel very comfortable with them either, AXiD had a cute skit and so did GPhiB-theirs was western themed. Phi Mu's skit made me laugh and one of the girls i hungout with last year-so i was totally impressed, because i never realized she wore her letters in front of me all the timelast year! Zeta's was my last party and theirs was very good. It seemed like they really put alot of time and effort into it--it was a STOMP theme. very cute. I was invited back to AXid, Zeta, GPhiB and Phi Mu.
That day was interesting. Going into rush i really thought i might go AXiD, but i felt like no one wanted to talk to me even though i liked their philanthropy. they were actually rude. GPhiB was still fun and i really liked them, but their craft was difficult to finish and confusing. Zeta we watched a video and painted flowerpots, and the girl i was talking to was quite impressed that i was artistic in anyway, because she admited that she wasn't-they rotated girls so i got to talk to a few, then we went outside and released pink balloons for breast cancer victims. I like their philanthropy b/c my aunt had breast cancer. Phi Mu was next and we made the cutest little thing called a boo boo bunny (for little kids in the hospital-you put ice in them) their video was really emotional and made people cry. I still liked phi mu. This is where it got hard. I dropped AXiD right away and kept the rest. I really liked GPhiB, Phi Mu, and Zeta. I figured Zeta would cut me because i weighed well over 115 pounds and it seemed that every girl there was under that, but i still really got along well with all the ladies there.
I loved GPhiB because they seemed interested in me, But so did Phi Mu. Phi Mu ladies seemed so nice and sweet. I crossed my fingers to get another day with all three.
well, when i went to go look at where i would be going for pref: Phi Mu. I was happy and excited, but also disapointed that GPhiB didn't invite me back. I was thinking that this is where i wanted to go, plus i knew my rho chi was a phi mu (her toenails gave it away--pink w/ flowers, just like some of the others) Everything was so beautiful at pref and the girl who preffed me i didn't get to talk to much but she made me feel like everyone wanted me there, and then i saw my friend glance at me and smile, and i knew that i wanted to be a Phi Mu. I lied and told them that i was going to another pref after theirs, just to make them worry.
Bid yell came and i was so excited. when they called my name with a long pause and then Phi Mu, my new sisters ran up to me threw a shirt overmy head and pulled me into the crowd.
a side note; during this whole time of me being confused of where i wanted to go, my poor roomate was so heartbroken: her final two were AXiD and her sister's (biological) GPhiB. PLUS the girl next door was trying to decide between the same. Bid night: My roomate went AXiD and her friend went GPhiB, they were crushed, my roomate was confused and they both dropped out. This year my roomate from that year went through again and finally is back home with AXiD-what she wanted all along.
~*LES SOEURS FIDELES*~