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It's 3:15 on Friday morning, and I cant sleep...
so I'm gonna put a guys rush story in here.
You'll laugh, you'll cry, do you smell an emmy?!
Here it goes...
spring 2001 i transferred to a new school. i was in the middle of my sophomore year and really wanted to rush and join a fraternity. i had known the names of some of the fraternities on campus, but didn't know anyone in them. at sdsu IFC rush is informal...very informal. the week before rush there was information tables set up on centennial walk. i was nervous about walking up to them, but after the first "hi, I'm josh and I'm looking into rush" it was easy. that day i didn't get to talk to every house, but i talked to a lot of them. phi kappa psi and theta chi were the two that really made an impression on me. the guys i talked to were really nice, and the info i got on the houses got me interested.
well the first day of rush i went on my journey...i was rushing alone since i didn't know anyone. the first house i went to was phi kappa psi. they were just hanging out in the front yard. i remember meeting so many guys, and having a blast. i didn't go anywhere else that day, but that night a girl i went to high school with took me over to kappa alpha because she knew a lot of the guys. i hung out there, but kinda was like "whatever."
that next day i had tons of messages from different houses telling me to stop by their houses. i tried to go to all of them but didn't. i remember going to sigma pi and just feeling out of place. i wanted to leave so bad. the next place i went was theta chi because they had impressed me so much when i talked to them on campus. i went there, but didn't feel the same...one guy had transferred from the same school as me, but other than that i just wanted to get over to phi kappa psi. when i was walking to phi kappa psi i had to pass by the kappa alpha house. this one guy in kappa alpha saw me and yelled out to me. he wanted to make sure i would stop by later.
so the rest of the week i spent my time at phi kappa psi, then i would walk over to kappa alpha. in my mind i liked phi kappa psi from the start, but kappa alpha was growing on me. the 3rd night after i left phi kappa psi to go to kappa alpha i was offered my first bid. when i was told by kappa alpha that they wanted to bid me all i could think was "i wish it was phi kappa psi." i ended up telling them i needed to think about it...i was holding out for phi kappa psi. i did go to see kappa alpha's stripper that night, and had a blast. the next night i got my bid from phi kappa psi, but when i received it i did not know if i wanted it. i told them i did not know either. so i took a day to think about what i wanted to do--was it going to be phi kappa psi or kappa alpha?
i could not decide, so i thought about the most fun i had during rush, it was the kappa alpha stripper night. because of a naked woman i accepted a bid to kappa alpha. within a week after rush i was still thinking about phi kappa psi. when the 3rd week rolled around i did not know if i had made the right choice. a week later was spring break and i figured that i could use a week at home to figure out what i wanted...but the night before i came home i ran into some phi kappa psi's on the street, one who would become my big bro. they were not who i wanted to see because at that point i knew i regretted not joining phi kappa psi and it was hard to see the people i meet during rush. anyway, after i got back from spring break i went to my pledge-ed at kappa alpha and depledged. when i walked out of the house without my pledge pin on i felt at ease...it was a feeling i cannot express. i knew i had made the wrong decision and was in the process of correcting it.
the rest of that semester was one of me wanting to be a phi kappa psi, but holding out for the fall. the only part of greek life i saw was from the two sigma kappa's who had become my friends.
fast forward to fall 2001
i waited what seemed forever to rush again. when fall rush started i only wanted to go to phi kappa psi, but IFC had the first day of rush be house tours. so i spent the day meeting guys from every house. unfortunately i had to go to kappa alpha too...trust me it was awkward. when i got to phi kappa psi all the guys i had talked to remembered me. after that day i spent the rest of that week at phi kappa psi. when i received my bid (again) it was like "finally."
i rushed twice, and made my mistakes...of course i wish i hadn't made them, and that i had chosen phi kappa psi in the first place, but this experience has made me stronger. it also has showed everyone in my house how much i want to be there. one of the guys who was in the spring 2001 pledge class told me i have one of the best "road to phi psi stories."
i like to tell my story. i figure if enough guys read it, one might not be persuaded into joining a house that he may not fit with because of a stripper, or other fake rush tools.
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