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Background:
I was from a very not-Greek family. I had a great aunt who was an Italy at a school far, far away in the 60s. I didn’t even ask her for a rec. But I went into recruitment with recs to several sororities (mainly from women at my church). I had no idea really what rec letters were or why they were important. The only active sorority member I knew at mizzou was my brother’s girlfriend (now wife), who was a Spain. I loved her and knew that I wanted to join her sorority. Obviously, I wasn’t going in with preconceived notions of all the houses, but the only house I actually “knew” was Spain, which was why it was my favorite going in.
In my rush group, I definitely felt like a fish out of water. While I was a pretty outgoing, non-wallflower type of girl, with great grades, I felt like some of these women went into recruitment with so much preparation and information that I was a total weirdo! There was one girl in my group from a small town in Illinois who didn’t have much connection with Mizzou Greek Life either- and she and I became instant friends.
Also, all of the girls were talking about houses reputations, their legacies, etc. I was completely overwhelmed. And it didn’t help that in the alphabetical lineup, I was sandwiched between a Mizzou cheerleader and a Mizzou Golden Girl (the dance team). They were PERFECT “sorority girls” and seemed to know EVERYTHING about every house. They would often have conversations around me, because apparently, I was that useless at recruitment J Like I said, I had no idea what to expect from any of the chapters, except that I wanted to be with my future-sister-in-law in her chapter. But, my future sister-in-law was a recruitment counselor and wouldn’t be able to talk to me during recruitment at all!
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