[M.Pennybags]

After an emotional start to the morning, I started getting for my two parties. While getting ready I had more time to think about the 5 sororities that hadn’t invited me back. I realized that I wasn’t too upset that Iron and Top Hat hadn’t invited me back because I knew the day before I wouldn’t have fit in to those chapters. I knew being part of Boot would have been really fun but the more I thought about it, I didn’t want to just join a sorority for the parties. Additionally, doing well academically was important to me and I knew balancing the party life and classes wouldn’t be easy for me. I was still bummed about Train and Race Car. I really saw myself fitting into those groups. I think the thing I was most frustrated about was that I was willing to give Race Car a second chance but they weren’t willing to give one to me. I still wasn’t sure if Greek life was for me, especially since 5 sororities didn’t think so, however I was going to stick with it for know and give it another shot. I decided to put all the negative thoughts behind me and stay positive for the parties I was going to that day. Out of the two groups I had left, Scottie Dog and Thimble, I wanted to be a Scottie Dog over a Thimble. Although I had good conversations at both, but the fact that Scottie Dog was a “better” sorority than Thimble made me want them more. I knew I would have to try very hard to impress Scottie Dog today. Once again I met up with my GRC to get my schedule of when during the day I would be attending my parties. I would attend Thimble first, would have a break and then would attend Scottie Dog. As bummed as I was about not having a full schedule, I was sort of relieved that I didn’t have to go to five parties. All the smiling and talking from the day before had been tiring.

Thimble- I didn’t feel nervous going into Thimble’s party, I wanted to be nice and polite but honestly wasn’t worried about being asked back or not. I know I talked to 2 maybe 3 sisters at this party but only remember one of the conversations. I don’t think the conversations were bad, just not memorable.The conversation I do remember was a great conversation. She had asked me about my winter break and I told her I spent most of my breaking working at a bookstore. This led us into a long conversation about our favorite books and authors. (Kind of a nerdy topic, but it was nice to have an intellectual conversation with someone). Day 2 of recruitment at Monopoly University was skit day, so part of the party was spent watching a skit. Unfortunately the skit was kind of lame. It was something like Real World-Thimble or Real World- Monopoly University. “This is the story of 6 Thimbles picked to live in a house….”. I think the message was something about how the sisters were all different but got a long or something. The only part I liked was that a Thimble I knew from club lacrosse was in a skit and she played this ditzy surfer thimble (which was pretty funny). To make matters worse a few Thimbles got up and sang the Jessica Simpson “Nothing but my t-shirt on” but changed the lyrics to “Nothing but my Jersey on”. I am not a big pop music fan, especially Jessica Simpson, I was not happy with this. Despite having a great conversation, the skit left me feeling not so good about the Thimbles.

Scottie Dog- I went to Scottie dog nervous about making the right impression, I so desperately wanted to be asked back here. I got picked up by a very friendly and cool sister. She was involved with the drama group on campus and was a theater and history major. I’m not big into acting but was involved with some backstage work my senior year of high school (making props, building sets, stuff like that) so we had a conversation about that. We talked about other stuff and the conversation seemed to flow really well. The sisters then guided all the PNMS to sit down together on the floor to watch their skit. I was curious to see if maybe skits were lame in general and it wasn’t Thimbles fault for having a bad skit. Nope, Thimble just had an awkward skit. Instead of acting Scottie Dog did a song and dance routine, I think the theme was MTV music video awards. A few sisters did these nicely choreographed dances while the other sisters sang lyrics to the songs, but they changed them to be about Scottie Dog. (I wasn’t a fan of pop music but they did it in a fun and interesting way, so I was ok with it). After the skit the sisters came and picked the PNMs up. PNMs all around me were getting picked up and I stood there awkwardly waiting for my sister, where was she, did she forget who she was talking to, I started to panic a little bit. Finally the sister I had been talking to pushed through the crowd and got me. She apologized saying she had a hard time getting through everyone. We talked for just a little bit longer and then another sister came to talk to me. This sister was not very social or talkative. I ended up asking her a ton of questions and didn’t get to talk about myself very much. I really didn’t know what to say and we had some awkward silence. I kept wishing another sister would come by or that the party would end. The party ended and I was so relieved to go. I left to party worried that my painful conversation with the second sister would ruin my chance of being invited back to Scottie Dog.

Overall the day was ok. I was enjoying getting to talk to people and the skits were interesting. However, I still wasn’t 100% sure what being in a sorority was all about and I still wasn’t convinced that being Greek was really for me. Especially because Go, Jail and Free Parking wouldn't be going Greek.

Day 3 tomorrow…