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Back in the year 1993, a year when many of this year’s PNM Class were either born, or hanging out in their Pack n Plays drooling, there was a young woman named Rushee McGee (name changed to protect the innocent).
She decided, at the urging of her parents, to go through Rush (because that’s what it was called) at her new, huge University located in the hills of the southland in her home state.
Here is what you need to know about Rushee. She was entering college with some credits, but was still a Freshman. Her HS GPA was in the mid 3.0s, she had lots of activities, and she was generally friendly – but she was also inclined to keeping to herself and was anxious about meeting new people. Her parents though Rush might bring her out to make friends. She was very determined to get into a very competitive major at her school, so she wanted to make sure she had good grades.
You should also know that Rushee loved playing board games, so she called each house by the name of a game. Only the houses relevant to her story are listed here, so not all houses on her campus are represented in this story.
The houses were:
Clue
Life
Scrabble
Checkers
Chess
Sorry
Pictionary
Monopoly
Risk
Boggle
Parcheesi
Battleship
Rushee hadn’t had much exposure to Greek Life. Her sister was a Scrabble at a different school, which she believed probably helped her. Her mother had not been in a sorority – she had gone to a 4 year Nursing school, which she had loved – and her classmates were as close as sisters, but this fact wasn’t going to help her during rush. Rushee knew a woman whom she admired that had been a Clue, but she also knew that the Clue house at Southland U was allegedly girls with “Old Money”.
So, with one legacy, one rec and some new clothes for the parties, Rushee moved into her dorm. There, she met her new roommate, Silly Oldschool. Silly was a quadruple legacy at the Risk house, and that’s where she seemed destined to pledge. Silly had opinions about the “good” houses and the ones that weren’t. Rushee didn’t set much store by Silly’s opinion, and decided that if she pledged a house, it wouldn’t be the same one as Silly.
What she really believed going into rush is that she would do it to meet people, and probably wouldn’t pledge anywhere. She repeated this mantra (to herself) often.
Coming soon...Round One.
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