[Frienze2010]

Hello, I go to a large competitive university with fall recruitment. I'll be rushing as a sophmore, I dropped rush last year because I didnt feel like I knew enough to make the right decision or know enough people to make rush easier.
Last year and this I've been doing a lot of networking and know atleast one woman in each house. I have many male friends in fraternities. To gain a competitive edge or rather what I didnt do last year, I've been asking my male friends if they are close with a girl in any houses and if they minded calling her and saying that they know someone who was rushing and if they could invite me over for a dinner. I didnt even know you could go to dinners prior to rush last year and I feel that having that time will do me well because I'm not good at the 5min sit in a chair chit chat. One of my guy friends had a lady even come over to his house late at night just to meet me, we got to talk and hang out. My question is...since I have multiple friends who know different ladies in the same house, is it okay to have different friends call and give my name to more than one girl in the house, or would that come off as desperate or would that just complicate things?

Another question..I went to a call out meeting, talked with 2 women from a house i'm interested in, i got a message on facebook inviting me over to watch Grey's anatomy and hang out. I'm not sure if it was from one of the women i met at the meeting. I swear every girl I've ever met loves Grey's...I've never seen it, and if they all gather around to watch it and I have no idea who mcsteamy or mcdreamy is..wont that be awkward and i wont really fit in (i'm aware its much deeper than tv shows) or i'll have nothing to say and come off as mean or boring.

As you can tell I'm really nervous about rush, I'd love to go greek and this is my last chance. I'm trying what I can. Any advice on networking...is name dropping okay? How much about rush should I talk about, not secrets, other things. Should I talk about what happened last year, will they know if I declined a bid. Theres a local headquarters in my home town, can I go there to get a rec, how? I seem to freeze up everytime i'm around someone in a house, then start chatting awkwardly or not at all.

Thank you.