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Day 2: Philanthropy Day (up to 10 sororities)
Another beautiful day in eastern Kansas… it’s been sunny and not too (read: August) hot, and no rain in the forecast for the rest of the week!
For Philanthropy Day, the PNMs were able to visit up to 10 chapters. Once again, KU Panhellenic provided the girls with t-shirts; this day’s shirt was red with a Jayhawk on the pocket. I really liked how they did shirts for the first two days this year as it seemed to cut out a lot of stressing about what to wear.
Sunny met her RC at 8am to pick up her list of invites. She was so thankful and felt very fortunate that she was asked back to her top 10 from Open House, although a little nervous because she was going to be on her own as far as traveling from house to house (as no one in her Rush Group had the exact same schedules). If you aren’t familiar with the KU campus, the sorority houses are sort of grouped in three general clusters (with a few random outliers) all at opposite ends of the campus. As a recap, Sunny returned to:
Arrowhead Stadium
Crown Center
Liberty Memorial
Oklahoma Joe’s
The Plaza
Power & Light
Sporting KC
Swope Park
Union Station
Westport
Philanthropy Day was something she’s been looking forward to as she was very involved with community service in high school. She said that most of her rushers asked about her volunteering, which I think was pretty prominent on her registration form and (hopefully) on the recs that she was able to obtain. Sunny told me she really was excited about several of the local and national philanthropies that she learned about today. At most places she visited, she was able to either make a personal connection to the cause or it was something that she already felt passionate about (or at least as passionate as you can be at 18). There were only 2 places where she felt they kind of downplayed it or didn’t sound super enthusiastic. I have no doubt that the length of the last two days may have had a little something to do with that, but it did make an impression on Sunny.
There was a little shuffle-up in her favorites tonight, and she sounded much more enthusiastic about a couple of chapters where she just thought they were ok the first round. Her favorites were:
Power & Light
Sporting KC
Union Station
Westport
Day 3 is Skit/House Tour Day where they can visit up to 7 houses, so she had to rank her bottom 3:
1. Oklahoma Joe’s (this was a hard decision for her as she liked them so much the first day)
2. Swope Park (she would be ok with returning here if invited)
3. Crown Center (she didn’t feel like the girls she met here today were interested in her)
Sunny’s roommate and suitemates continue to have a great time as well. Roommate returned to 10 houses (she had the same invites as Sunny except she had Boulevard Brewery in place of Sporting KC). Suitemate 1 returned to 8 houses and Suitemate 2 returned to 10 houses.
Random notes about Day 2:
Apparently the grade cuts were pretty harsh today, but reading some of the other threads on here, I don’t think that’s any surprise. Sunny knew quite a few girls who only had 5 or 6 invites today. I told her that it only takes one in the end, and she agreed. I also said that she needed to be prepared for more heavy cuts tomorrow and to remember that she needed to accept that whatever invites she receives are really the only houses she needs to think about. I wasn’t trying to be a downer or dampen her enthusiasm at all, just inject a little bit of reality and hope she retains it in the morning! We talked a lot about how House Tours/Skits would really give her a better feeling of how she would fit in at each place rather than trying to figure that out during the whirlwind of the first two rounds. Also, Roommate had a weird experience at one of the chapters where her rusher just looked at her and said “I’m tired, I’m sure you’re tired, let’s just sit here and not talk.”
I hope everyone’s daughters/rec girls are enjoying themselves just as much as Sunny and friends. Today should be a fun day for them, house tours and skits!
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