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Bringing this thread back from a couple months...

I rushed as a sophomore in spring, so "informal rush" for our school. My sorority recruits a week before the others in spring, so when I was invited to rush, I didn't think anything of it. Because I was always a "non-sorority girl", I didn't pay attention to Greek Life at my school except for the occasional roll-eye at Greek letters (I hate to say it now, but I did!). When I went through their rush, I had absolutly NO idea what I was doing. Pretty much going in completly blind. My eldest brother had been a DTD at USC but I hadn't really heard any stories from him and only had one, not-so-great experience of his to go off of. The second day of recruitment I still didn't know what I was doing (I honestly thought that I was just going to different events with this sorority. I never really got the clue that I was "rushing" until initiation...sad, right?). I got a tip from my brother telling me to ask fraternity guys on campus about the different sororities because they "had the dirt" on the sororities (his words).

I talked to a few teammates who were in the same fraternity and asked them which sorority would be a good one to rush, without mentioning the chapter I was rushing. They automatically said this one, then a few more. Over that week I gathered information about the different sororities on campus and realized slowly that the group I was rushing had, according to Greeks and Non-Greeks alike, one of the best reputations on campus.

Looking back now, I wish I could have had the chance to rush each chapter to see what would have happened, but even looking that way I know I made the right choice. Not only do we have a fantastic reputation on campus, but we're one of the strongest chapters in the nation, not to mention our region. It's sometimes overwhelming that I joined a sorority because it is not what anyone would have expected, and overwhelming that I have this reputation to keep up.

But things that I heard about other sororities throughout the spring, some things have been correct and some have been wrong. I like to think that our campus Greeks work very well together, albiet some arguments. But I wasn't too influenced in that aspect. I do know that talking to fraternity brothers and asking about different chapters helped my decision, though...I guess that would be influence. All I know is I am most definitly a Pi Beta Phi and proud of it!!

So that was a novel. And I kind of went in circles. Ah well. I love writing about it!