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So the next day comes. This is the last day before bid day....yes guy's formal rush last three days including bid day. I walk over to the Greek wearing some jeans and a jacket considering it's pouring rain. There was no dresscode for Day 2. I find my Rho Gam's who are passing out slips with the houses each guy was invited to. As my Rho Gam digs through his manila folder, my heart stops a couple beats thinking what if I was cute by all the houses already. Eventually he finds it and hands it to me. I was invited back to two houses...TWO! I was a little agitated so slyly I peaked into the manila folder while my Rho Gam wasn't looking and noticed some guys had 5 or 6, BUT some guys only had one or none at all. I breathed a slight eye of relief and realized I should happy I had houses to go back to. I was asked back to Brad Paisley and Garth Brooks. I was estatic to be asked back by Brad Paisley, I assumed I had made a good impression on the Brad Paisleys after all! I was saddened that I wasn't asked back to George Strait, but I could see it coming. I liked them a lot but had no previous interaction with them and no contacts within the fraternity. I had gotten 1 out of the 2 fraternities I really wanted and that was what mattered to me.

So the way Round 2 worked was that we had three hours to divide up our time visiting the houses we were asked back to. We could spend the whole three hours in one house, ten minutes in each, or even come fill out your preference sheet and then leave. Now don't ask me why I did it...I was a mindless and stubborn 18-year-old boy who had no idea what he was doing. I came to the rational (or at least I viewed it) conclusion that I wanted to be a Brad Paisly or nothing at all, so I would not be going back to the Garth Brooks house this round. So off I trodded to the Brad Paisley house where they were grilling outside the house. I was offered a hamburger which I obliged to and made my way into the house. I soon found out that neither my camp counselor nor the guy I knew from high school were there that day. So I decided to introduce myself to the chapter president again. We talked for a little bit and he introduced me to a few other guys. I ended up talking to the President of the Student Body who was also a Brad Paisley and had an awesome conversation with him. So basically I ended up meeting several different Brad Paisleys and had good conversations with pretty much all of them. However I could tell I was starting to feel like the time was dragging on. After two hours in this one house I felt like I had pretty much talked to everyone I could except the Rush Chair who seemed to always be talking to someone else. It was an awful day of weather so I decided to just take my leave and hope for the best.

I went up to my Rho Gam to fill out my preference sheet and wrote down one name...Brad Paisley. It was nothing personal against Garth Brooks, I just didn't feel a connection to them, or at least the guys I had talked to during formal rush. Plus their quality top-to-bottm was a little questionable and the tent talk about them wasn't too great. I signed my card and left, feeling uneasy about my fortune for tomorrow but feeling as though I could do everything I possibly could during my time in the Brad Paisley house. If it didn't work out then it wasn't meant to be.