33girl: Hahaha, yess!! But there sadly weren’t any skits
The start of day 2! I was nervous. Extremely nervous because our rho gammas had told us that there was an extremely limited number of spots open at each house. Although each house had to have more than 7 spots open to participate in spring recruitment, there were maybe 120 - 140 girls going through recruitment. I was just worried in general about getting dropped from all the houses, and even getting dropped from my favorites. The thing our rho gammas kept stressing was that nobody was guaranteed a bid, so it was everyone’s fear to end up without a bid.
We met our rho gammas at the recruitment headquarters, and received our schedules. I had been asked back to my top 5!
The only thing that was a bit upsetting was that I had split parties -- meaning two of the parties that I had to attend were at the same time, so I was only going to be able to go to half of each one.
My schedule looked something like this:
Penelope
Amelie
Gig/Eternal Sunshine
Pulp Fiction
I had a great time at
Penelope! I talked to a bunch of really awesome girls, and again this was someplace that I could really see myself fitting in. I had great conversations about everything, and it really did feel like home. I can’t recall the specifics, but... I really, really loved how I felt there.
After that, we went to
Amelie. At this point, I had a huge “rush crush” on Amelie. After the conversations that I had there that day, I knew that this is where I wanted to pref, and hopefully end up at. I had amazing conversations, and I genuinely enjoyed their little video. It was sweet. I left feeling really happy and with a huge smile on my face; I just felt so at home there.
After that, I went to
Gigi. I got a house tour at Gigi, and the girl that gave me the tour was super sweet, I just didn’t really know if I had much in common with her. Regardless, I had a good time, and seeing their house was a bonus.
After that, I had to RUN to
Eternal Sunshine in order to not be late -- luckily for me, the houses were on practically opposite ends of the row... When I got there, slightly flustered, the girl that I had been set up to talk to was actually one of my good friends! She hadn’t known that I was going through recruitment, and chastised me for not letting her know. We ended up talking about what we’ve been up to since the last time we saw each other. So it was a great conversation! Then it was time for a video, which was okay. I didn’t think it was too bad.
And my final party of the day was at
Pulp Fiction! The girls were super sweet as always, and I ended up having nice conversations there. However, it wasn’t anything too spectacular in my opinion. We also watched a video, which had girls talk about their experiences at Pulp Fiction.
I then headed over to the recruitment headquarters, and filled out the card. Today was the day we narrowed it down from 5 to 2. It’s a drastic cut, I know a lot of people struggled with it. I ranked them as such:
1. Amelie
1. Penelope
2. Eternal Sunshine
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Gigi
After I filled it out, my rho gamma told me that if I were to get dropped, I’d hear by a certain time, and if my party didn’t start until later in the day, then I’d get a phone call too. Having heard that, I walked back to campus, and went to bed.