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Originally Posted by lemony

FALL 2010

So here's some context on my sentiments before rush this year. I definitely felt reeeeeally nervous. I wasn't sure how my chances would stack up, but I was also pretty confident that I had grown a lot in the past year (taken on leadership positions on campus and even studied abroad over the summer!), which I felt would help me during rush. I was rushing with my friend P (a junior), who also rushed unsuccessfully last year.

I also had friends in houses, which played a different role in how I felt about them prior to rush this year:

Kenneth: Knew 1 girl at this house, and didn't really know a lot about them other than they seemed like super fun girls that I was interested in getting to know.

Jack: Knew ZERO of these girls. They had a really bad incident a few years ago that involved drugs that kind of hurt their reputation a lot, but other than that I didn't think that I'd be interested in this house prior to rush.

Tracy: One of my best friends is in this house. I've attended a couple of their philanthropy events and I knew that they were pretty sweet girls, but I didn't really feel like they were for me (based on my so-so experiences with them last year).

Cerie: Knew a couple girls from this house, but they were both abroad and wouldn't be there during rush. This house also seems like a bunch of fun girls from what I know about them. I've heard that they're kind of party animals, but then again which average college student doesn't?

Jenna: One girl from this house was in a few of my classes this year, and isn't the nicest ever...a little standoffish. But I think she was also abroad this year and I didn't know anything about them, so I didn't let my opinions of her affect my opinions of them.

Pete: My best friend and roommate got into this house last year (let's call her W), and she's very happy in this house. She's abroad this fall though, so she wasn't there to see me rush. She'd definitely mentioned a couple of times that she would be super-ecstatic if I ended up in Pete, but she was also supportive and understood that it was my choice.

Toofer: Some pretty good friends in this house, since I've been to their philanthropy events and I've met a lot of them through my close friend R. I felt a little jaded about this house from last year though, and whenever I pondered the possibility of getting into Toofer, I felt kind of frustrated because I remembered going through (almost swine) flu and whatnot during rush week and not getting a bid at the end. I didn't really want a repeat of last year.

Frank: Know a girl in this house as well, and was also feeling a little jaded about this house.


Review of my friends:

P: friend rushing with me, a junior also rerushing
W: best friend/roommate abroad in Pete
K: best friend in Toofer
C: My ex-pi rho chi from last year, who became Recruitment director this year. She's the sweetest! when I submitted my rush application she emailed me back and was totally thrilled that I decided to rush again.



DAY ONE: So nervous! Haha. I decided that the best way to approach this day would be to try to stand out as much as possible. I wore this one shoulder romper that I totally fell in love with over the summer, and met my Pi Rho Chi this year (I already kind of knew she was a Frank...whoops. oh well.).

Our schedule went a little like this: Frank, Pete, Jack, Tracy, Kenneth, Jenna, Toofer, Cerie.

Frank: The girls I talked to from this house were pretty nice—nothing past the standard recruitment conversation, though.

Pete: A couple girls who I knew from this house waved to me and looked really excited that I was rushing. All I remember thinking was that the girls from this house were pretty nice. I think that they seemed to know that W was my roommate, and when the topic of study abroad came up they definitely hinted at her. Not sure if it was a good or bad idea to mention her, so I just kept it to myself.

Jack: The girls here were really nice as well. I remember feeling almost a little intimidated because a lot of them were GORGEOUS. But they were really sweet and I had fun talking to them.

Tracy: Talking to the girls here was alright. The first girl I talked to got really interested in me because I had studied abroad in a country where she’s from (a country where not a lot of people go), so we talked about that for a while before another girl came and I met her.

Kenneth: The girls here were so cute! When the background music in the giant auditorium-style room we were in began playing, they all just began singing along in a really spirited way. Really peppy and cheerleader-like, haha. I remember a girl complimented me on my romper, and she said that her formal dress looked like it. Interestingly enough, a picture of her at formal with other Kenneths was on the display table near us, and I saw that her formal dress was indeed like mine! We talked more about recruitment and the things I do on campus, which was pretty cool.

Jenna: I liked talking to the girls here as well. One of the first couple girls I talked to at Jenna immediately told me that she loved my romper and was looking at it from across the room, which made me laugh because borderline creeping is something that my friends and I laugh about all the time. And it was flattering! After her I met probably three other girls in a row who were in my major, so we definitely had a lot to talk about. Plus another girl I met at Jenna had a name that sounded just like mine, so when we finished talking, she cheerily said my name would be easy to remember. I had a really good feeling about this house!

Toofer: The girl I talked to here was nice. I waved to my best friend and another girl who I was friends with stopped by and hugged me and chatted with me for a while. Ultimately I felt that the conversation with the girl who I didn’t know was a little strained, and was kind of the run-of-the-mill recruitment conversation.

Cerie: The girls here were pretty cool also. I actually spoke to one of the girls who was in my Pi Chi group last year, and she said that I looked familiar but I didn’t really want to mention that I rushed unsuccessfully last year since I didn’t want it to taint my conversation with her. We suddenly got into the topic of weddings and gushed about that for quite a while. The other two girls I met were pretty nice as well, and I was pretty impressed with this house.

At the end of the day, my rankings went as follows:

Jenna
Kenneth
Cerie
Jack
Pete
Toofer
Tracy
Frank

Update on Day 2 coming soon! Sorry for the obnoxiously long posts!

Good luck!