HOUSE TOURS!
I was so anxious to get my schedule for house tours! We could get invited back to up to five sororities and I crossed my fingers for
Goliath and
Bizarro. My parents came up to take me out to lunch this day and I told them all about how recruitment was going. I told them that I had a couple of favorites and couldn’t wait to get my schedule for the day!
After my parents left, I headed to the student center kind of early because I was so excited to find out who invited me back. My rho gamma handed me my schedule, and I anticipated seeing my top houses. Instead, I saw…
Millennium Force
El Toro
Top Thrill Dragster
I was shocked. Those were my bottom three! What happened with my favorite houses? I thought that I had such good conversations! At first, I didn’t handle the shock of my schedule that well. I shed a few tears (okay, a lot of tears...) and got some great advice from my beautiful rho gamma, and then I put on my game face and got excited. I got to see my best friend at
Millennium Force, and I got to give
El Toro and
Top Thrill Dragster another chance!
Millenium Force was the first house I visited and I LOVED their house. It was cute and charming. A friend from high school picked me up at the door and I was so surprised to see her! I got to talk to some other sisters, including my best friend’s big, and they were all wonderful. I was definitely starting to see myself here.
I went to
El Toro next. Since they’re newer on campus they don’t have a house yet, so they used one of the fraternity houses. It was so nicely decorated that you would have never guessed! My conversations here were a lot better than they were during philanthropy round, and I felt really comfortable with them! I could tell that their sisterhood is strong and they love El Toro. I might be able to see myself here.
Last was
Top Thrill Dragster. It kind of seemed like nobody was that excited to come here.
Other PNMs were saying that the Dragsters only invited girls back because they needed numbers and were at risk of losing their house. I'd even heard girls say that it was the "reject" chapter and that they took anyone. I tried to ignore the gossip and keep an open mind during the tour. I really liked the sister who gave me the tour, but I was paired up with another PNM and I felt like she kind of dominated the conversation. I really liked their house but I still wasn’t quite sure about them. I didn't know if I would fit in.
At the end of the night, I felt a lot better about being cut from my previous favorites. It still hurt a little bit, especially when I saw other girls going back to those houses and heard them complain about having a full schedule. But I realized that if I hadn’t gotten cut from those four houses, I might not have been able to go to the three wonderful chapters that welcomed me into their homes!
My rankings for the night were…
Millenium Force
El Toro
Top Thrill Dragster
I was hoping to pref at
Millenium Force and
El Toro.
