[MizzouMom]

Rainy day in Columbia - many compromised hairstyles! Here is information from my daughter on the six chapters she visited today.

Chrysanthemum - had a great conversation with a girl who also participated in science olympiad in high school and is a chemical engineering major - in her words, they "totally nerded out" - she really liked this group
Eloquence - some fraternity boys blew an airhorn right outside the chapter about two minutes before the social was supposed to start, and the girls did their walkout early - then they realized they were the only ones who came out and went back in. My daughter said she felt so bad for them. Once she got inside she talked to a girl who was really nice - they talked about the chapter's philanthropy quite a bit - she said she loved this chapter
Repousse - she felt very emotional here as it is one of her legacy chapters - she talked with several different girls, including the chapter president and membership chair, and said that they talked about everything and the conversation was effortless - she said "I felt like I was home"
Rose Point - she made a couple of friends in this chapter last year, but she said when she was in the house today she didn't feel like she did when she was in Repousse - she did talk with several girls about topics like greek week, sports, majors, etc. and said it was really loud and hard to hear
Chantilly - this was kind of a surprise for her as she didn't feel much of a connection with this chapter, and it had been one she thought she was really interested in before recruitment started - she reported that it was really loud and the girls were nice, they talked mostly about studying abroad
Strasbourg - talked with three different girls, said they were all very pretty, talked a lot about sisterhood with one of the girls, said the coversations were okay

So, at the end of two very long days, she reports that the chapters she's feeling the most connection with are (not in any particular order):
Grande Baroque
Fairfax
Eloquence
Respousse
Candlelight
Chrysanthemum

Tomorrow is sisterhood day. The blurb in the recruitment booklet describes it as "a day to sit back and relax and let each chapter educate the Potential Members about their sorority in a skit." This is the first day to dress up, which will be a nice change from recruitment t-shirts. The PMs can attend a maximum of 11 socials tomorrow. They will get their invitations/schedule at around 8:00 tomorrow morning. My daughter says she's so nervous about getting cut from her favorites that she doesn't think she'll be able to sleep. I can sympathize!!!

I will post her invite list tomorrow morning.