[AOEforme]

Orientation

AOEforme Jr thinks her eardrums have exploded. There are women screaming and cheering everywhere and music blasting. She goes off to find her Rho Gamma group alone, as the other four girls on her floor are in different Rho Gamma groups.

AOEforme Jr thinks she has made a mistake. There are too many women who are too loud and too perfect. She feels imperfect and years behind, even behind her perfectly chosen outfit and brand-new Coach bag. She finds her Rho Gamma group... and laughs and relaxes.

They have chosen Harry Potter as a theme and have capes and broomsticks. Maybe she can do this she thinks! She tries talking to the girls around her. Some are quite rude but by the end of the evening she has made two friends, who I will call Addie and Sarah.

Addie knows nothing about rush and is doing this simply because she got the mailer and wanted an all-female group again. (She went to a well-known all-girls high school in Milwaukee.)

Sarah is from the East Coast ("But she doesn't seem like a coastie!" my sister proclaims) and is a legacy to both Ohio State and Illinois. She is excited to go through recruitment. She watched 3 sisters and 1 brother go through their respective recruitments. In addition to being a legacy to Ohio State and Illinois, she is a legacy to Alpha Gamma Delta and another sorority my sister could not remember. Her brother is a Sigma Phi Epsilon, so Sarah is well-versed in Greek Life.

AOEforme Jr loves her Rho Gammas. They are sweet and offer to do nearly anything for the girls. "I wish I knew which groups they were in so I could try and be their sisters!" my sister proclaims over dinner. My chapter is not held to the period of silence so I invited her to dinner with some of my sorority sisters, just to relax before classes start. They are excited for her as well and ask her if she has any favorites yet. "Not yet," she says, "I want to try for our neighbor's sorority so we could be sisters but I am not sure what they are like here. I will just have to wait and see what they are like for myself."

"Hurrah!" I thought to myself, "We taught her well!"