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This will be the first time I've mentioned this this year, but you are having Unicorns Pooping Rainbows Syndrome. During rush, every sorority woman you meet is IN LOVE WITH YOU. You are the center of their universe. Once rush festivities are over, they kind of move on with their lives and return to sorority life as usual. You definitely fit into that life, but they are no longer singing and dancing every time you approach the door. And how dare they? So you no longer feel special. The conversations that seemed oh my god so important a couple weeks ago now seem stilted and false. Well guess what, rush is a highly organized scripted and choreographed event. The fact that it works out for the vast majority of sorority women is kind of a miracle. But it does work. The difference is, now it's YOUR turn to do the work. And forget about BFFs and inside jokes and all the other stuff associated with long time friends. These are real women with real, and very full lives. There is no other area of your life where you would expect to leap past the get to know you phase. You can't expect it in your sorority either.
And for the active collegians out there, KEEP RUSHING YOUR PLEDGES. You do bear some burden in making sure your pledges feel welcome.
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"Traveling - It leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. ~ Ibn Battuta
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